Hog Prices Turn Upward in Week of Strong Hog Sales
Southern hog prices closed last week 15 to 50 cents higher per hundredweight as gains spread across major centers. Cattle prices dipped with heavier receipts, broiler prices held steady or rose in producing areas. Advancing hog prices were reported in Louisville Nashville Memphis and North Carolina markets, while Alabama and Florida feeds pushed higher meat prices and farm rates showed regional variations.
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Atlanta
Southern
Agrcultural Marketing Service
Louisville
Adana
Memphis
Reading
Chicago
Nashville
Carolinas
North Georgia
Florida
North Carolina
Mississippi
Shenandoah Valley
Ready for drought again this summer and fall
The article warns farmers to prepare for a repeat drought by expanding pastures and silo use, improving alfalfa production, and conserving feed. It notes past drought lessons, urging readiness to avoid empty barns and silos by saving six weeks of potential next harvests, while warning against overreliance on lush crops. It cites USDA prospects for increased tobacco exports and plant disease and insect threats to US crops.
Thousands Attend East Tennessee Strawberry Festival Parade
Dayton Tennessee hosted the seventh annual East Tennessee Strawberry Festival drawing nearly 10 000 spectators for the longest parade in city history. Over 40 floats rolled past the Rhea County Courthouse as Miss Joyce Eberle was crowned festival queen from 35 contestants. Despite drought and cold cutting supply, growers reported about seven dollars per crate on market day.
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Dayton
Tenn
Rhea County
Joyce Eberle
County Livestock Association Plans Field Day
The Sulivan County Livestock Association will sponsor a field day Wednesday at 1 p.m. on the Dryden Fleenor farm in Holston Valley. Claude Prince, assistant county agent, announces. William P. Tyrell of the University of Tennessee Extension Service will lead discussions on breeding feeding housing management and insect and parasite control. Association aims include boosting beef cattle sheep and hog projects and eradicating Bangs disease. Membership is open to beef cattle sheep or hog producers. officers are Joe Carmack president Jock Thomas vice president Prince secretary and Gordon Hawk treasurer. The Plecnor farm lies a half mile southeast of Holston Valley High School.
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Sulivan County Livestock Association
Dryden Fleenor
Holston Valley
Claude Prince
William P. Tyrell
University of ‘Tennessee Extension Service
Sullivan County Livestock Association
Prince
Joe Carmack
Jock Thomas
Gordon Hawk
Plecnor
Holston Valley High School
Cutting Too Close Will Harm Grass and Lawns
Two weeks of dry weather followed by rains harmed lawns. Claude Prince advises not mowing too short, keeping grass at 1.5 to 2 inches high to feed roots. Water deeply once a week, soil depth three inches, and avoid heavy daily watering to prevent disease.
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Claude Prince
Sullivan County
Prince
Walter
Flowering Dogwood Is America's Most Beautiful Native Tree
Henry Pree writes for NEA Service praising the flowering dogwood as America’s finest native flowering tree. It thrives in sun or open shade, transplanting is feasible, and delicate surface roots must be protected. Variants include pink dogwood and Kousa, with notes on care, soil, and watering.
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Henry Pree
NEA Service
America
China
Japan
Kingsport Community Activities Schedule This Week
Kingsport Today lists a weekly slate of events across Clyte Auditorium Garden and recreation centers. Activities include midget baseball practice 4 15 to 6 45, showers, square dancing, chess and volley ball, a movie night, and baseball games with various rooms and hosts.
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Clyte Auditorium
National Guard
Motanditorium
Community Chest Board of Directors
Activitier
Clyte
Clud O Corser
Frank
Glind Heeceallou
Douglas
Recreation Center
Caine
Clete
Matt
Cloud Recreation Center
Douglaas Recreation Center
Hassball
Aursday Civic Auditoriany Chanies
Frank L. Claud Recreation Center
Douglass Recreation Center
Filoay Cirle Auditoriae Kingsport Council
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Melo
Freak L
Incomplete Text Prompts Reader Questions Answered
The fragment suggests a column where Henry Pree declines to answer certain questions. It hints at readers asking about practical bathing topics and year-to-year developments, but the source is garbled and lacks clear events or names to confirm.
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Henry Pree
New Way To Shrink Painful Piles Revealed
In New York a science breakthrough introduces Bio-Dyne a healing substance that shrinks hemorrhoids and relieves pain. The discovery from a world famous institute is sold as Preparation H in suppository or ointment form with a money back guarantee available at druggists.
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New York
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