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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1944
Page
2
Agricultural and marketing topics urge farm families to plan winter cover crops and sowing times. The piece notes soil health as crucial for postwar success and cites war impact on feed supply and acreage figures across regions, with several county and farm names mentioned in passing.
The text discusses winter cover crops to protect cropland around Houston, emphasizing soil conditioning and disease suppression. It mentions small grains like barley and rye grass as important covers, timing suggestions for late September sowing, and integrating cover crops with peanut fields to improve soil and crop health.
Auburn reports the 1944 hay crop is projected at about 371 million tons, 2 million less than 1943. Despite being the third largest in 17 years, the supply lags animal needs, with especially dry areas from Southern New England to Texas showing short hay stocks.
More than 300 Kiwanis members from all Alabama clubs will convene in Auburn from October 8 to 10. The program includes memorial and youth service sessions, speakers from university and industry, presidential meetings, and a governor’s address to close the district gathering.
Alabama faces hunger and nutrition concerns as National Nutrition Month promotes adequate meals. Extension workers urge housewives to use available Austrian peat and Alabama grown crops to boost meals and value through preservation. Soil conservation districts cover 323 million acres across 45 states, with Texas leading farm acreage.
Alabama farmers enter September amid their two busiest months for harvesting cotton peanuts sweet potatoes and corn and planting small grain and winter legumes. A labor shortage hampers harvests with few war prisoners aiding peanuts in Southeast Alabama while most work falls to farm families and local residents. Velvet bean caterpillars threaten crops as damp weather leaves cotton and peanuts at risk from wet picking and ginning. sweet prospects are weighed by ongoing issues.
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