Cover Crops in This County of Varied Nature
The State Experiment Station favors Austrian Winter peas over Hairy Vetch as the best winter cover crop for Southeast Alabama. Plant 20–30 pounds per acre. inoculate. sow in October. peas may be broadcast and covered 1–3 inches. Austrian peas turn under earlier, boost corn yields, and can reduce corn acreage by about 60 percent while doubling yield. advise converting 4 acres per plow to Austrian Winter peas.
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Alabama
Grid Star to Study Australian Bushmen
Dr Paul Withington, famed Harvard football figure, joins S D Porteous of the University of Hawaii on an expedition to learn if the Australian bushman is a Stone Age survivor. Porteous warns against comparing Aboriginals to defectives, noting divergence in evolution and the danger of the problem disappearing as Aboriginal life ends.
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Melbourne
Australia
Paul Withington
Harvard
Progress by Houston County home demonstration women
Mrs. W. G. Pruett began as county home demonstration agent on June first 1926. Over three years she reports substantial progress with organized women and girls divisions and projects in clothing food and nutrition. A home improvement program tops this year while 16 committees drive the effort and 4-H rally selects Auburn farm week delegates.
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W. G. Pruett
Auburn
Houston County
Island Homes Becomes Biology Laboratory
PUT-IN-BAY Ohio Historic Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie once the summer home of Jay Cooke has been turned into a biology laboratory. The site is described as the finest inland marine scientific plant in the United States and was formerly dedicated as the Franz Theodore Stone biological laboratory of Ohio State University. It is named for Julius F Stone, longtime chairman of the university board of trustees who purchased the island and donated it to the school.
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Put-In-Bay
Ohio
Gibraltar Island
Lake Erie
Jay Cooke
United States
Franz Theodore Stone
Ohio State University
Julius F. Stone
University Board of Trustees
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Grid Star
Withington
S. D. Porteous
The
University of Hawaii
Porteous
Island Homes
Biology
Houston
Jackson
Pres
A. K. Merrill
Simmons
B.G. Farmer
E. H. Spiva
Dothan, Alabama
Haynes Lumber Company
Quality Lumber
Waynes
Lowe Bros
Haynes Lumber
J. C. Haynes
Dothan Alabama
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