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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1944
Page
4
A Alabama Extension briefing by June E Ivey explains how to use lights in laying houses to boost egg production. It covers timing from September 15 to April 15, preferred morning lights, exact on and off times to achieve 12 hours light, feeding strategies, and wattage guidance for electric and lantern lighting.
Alabama farmers have exhausted AAA legume seed stocks with Austrian winter peas being the only legume seed remaining for shipment under the AAA service fee plan. A. W. Jones notes no surplus in any AAA warehouses in Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, or Troy and urges farmers to contact local leaders to order from the Midwest if needed. Naval Air Transport Service squadrons fly about 3,600,000 plane miles monthly.
Auburn extension clothing specialist Lewis B. Ellis recommends copper sulphate to curb mildew in fabrics. Home treatment for cotton shower curtains and awnings involves cleaning, heating in soapy water, then soaking in a copper sulphate solution to impart mildew resistance and a pale blue tint. Cadmium chloride offers a colorless alternative but both chemicals are poisonous and must be kept away from children.
Secretary Wickard warns there will be no large scale back in the land movement after the war. He says many veterans come from farms but returning farm work will not absorb millions. He notes typical postwar shifts with women and younger workers leaving agriculture.
Alabama farmers, aided by resumed fair weather, rush cotton picking and peanut digging. Southeast Alabama faces a dark peanut crop outlook with caterpillar defoliation and a labor shortage even with 2,500 POW workers, as farmers plant winter grains, legumes, and other crops to prevent soil erosion and meet feed needs.
Auburn notes Fire Prevention Week from October 8 to 14 as fires in 1943 rose nationwide. Roosevelt urged the focus to cut farm, industrial, and residential losses amid higher destruction and 370 million dollars in property losses. Farmers urged to reduce hazards and adopt fire safe practices including new roofing, cleaned chimneys, electrical care, safe storage of gasoline, and proper hay handling and lightning protection.
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