High vacuum maple sap study reports strong results
The Proctor Maple Research Farm says high vacuum pumping maintains vigor in Underhill sugar bushes after 10 years with no quality loss versus gravity systems. Over 50 producers attended Vermont sponsored courses on latest maple production and marketing. experts discuss tubing, vacuum benefits, costs, and pricing projections for 1971.
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Proctor Maple Research Farm
Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Extension Service
University of Vermont
James W. Marvin
Marvin
Foulds
Laing
Warren Mitchell
Newport
H.J. (Bucky) Doria
Lyndon Institute
Lyndon Center
Computer forestry course planned at University of Vermont
The Department of Forestry and the Extension Service sponsor a January 5-7 program at the University of Vermont to teach computerized forestry decision making. Raymond T. Foulds notes strong interest as managers learn how computers provide quantitative bases for forest and forest products decisions.
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Foulds
Frank H. Armstrong
Charles W. Bigalow
Monte R. Harold
Charles C Myers
Raymond T. Foulds
Hills
University of Vermont
Burlington
Vermont
Too much spirit can be deadly this holiday season
Burlington medical expert warns against drinking and driving as holiday fatalities rise. Loretta Dow notes many fatal accidents involve drivers under the influence and urges not to mix alcohol and driving. If drinking occurs, limit to one drink per hour and avoid driving for at least one hour after drinking.
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Burlington
Loretta Dow
R.N
National Safety Council
County Agent's Report On Farm Profits And New Year Reflections
The county agent argues it is more profitable for grain to go to distilleries than for feed, noting prices of $2 versus $32 per bushel, and laments farmer share of consumer food costs. He warns nonfarmers entering agriculture raise questions of motive, urges adaptation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing among farmers to maintain profitability.
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Vermont
Drug education becomes key 4-H plan with Lilly support
4-H centers its program on drug education to curb youth use. Norman Mindrum notes broad, fact based methods and expects leaders and parents to stay vigilant while sharing information. Training efforts in Amarillo and programs across West Virginia Minnesota New Hampshire Tennessee and Iowa showcase collaboration with police and communities. The 4-H Service Committee cites over 500000 people illicitly using drugs and emphasizes a strong education drive with Eli Lilly and Co backing.
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Chicago
4-H
Eli Lilly and Company
Norman C. Mindrum
National
Mindrum
Cooperative Extension Service
Amarillo
Tex
West Virginia
Minnesota
New Hampshire
Tennessee
Iowa
National Institute of Mental Health
4-H Service Committee
Eli Lilly and Co
Henry F. DeBoest
Eli Lilly & Co
Fern Kelley
Usda Extension Service
Farm Credit Boss outlines broad changes for Congress
A. Jaenke, governor of the Farm Credit Administration, urged broader legislative changes directed by the Federal Farm Credit Board to meet expanding rural credit needs. Proposals include greater flexibility in Federal Land Bank mortgage lending, financing for custom service operators, broader eligibility for Banks for Cooperatives, and more flexible loan fund gathering and capitalization rules. The aim is to keep the Farm Credit System a permanent nationwide credit source as demand potentially doubles by decade's end.
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Washington, D.C
A. Jaenke
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Farm Credit Board
Congress
America
Jaenke
Farm Credit System
Pcas
FCA
Federal Land Bank
Year 1970 revue predicts 1971 effects for youth
A look back at 1970 and ahead to 1971 by a Vermont writer notes youth concerns. It cites campus peaceable protest over Cambodia, rising drug attention, growing environmental action, and cultural shifts around the Silent Majority and the Generation Gap, ending with a hopeful New Year.
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Vermont
Women's Liberation Front
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Robert P. Davison
Doris Steele
Valma Bostwick
Swanton
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Richford
Howard Cassidy
Enosburg Falls
Doris Elwood
Vergennes
Arthur Farrell
Marguerite Hooper
James Howrigan
Fairfield
Beatrice Lavigne
Winooski
Alice Meunier
Beatrice Moody
Ruth Rousseau
Grand Isle
New York
UPI
Maury Massler
Greater
Kohler & Campbell
Wise Women Shop
Save-Way Supermarket
Bennington
Mammoth Mart
Blue Benn
Working Man
Hunt ST
Stan Kimball
John C. Page
Wall Street
Cooperatives
Commission On Agricultural Credit
Commission
Misty T
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
B.B.P
Bennington, VT
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