Victory garden seed potatoes and care tips
A wartime guidance note describes growing Irish potatoes in victory gardens with small plots and non farm plantings. It covers certified Bliss Triumph or Cobbler seed, cutting seed pieces, planting one fourth of an acre per average farm family, fertilizing with 410-7 or Victory garden fertilizer, and using manure carefully. Growth is about 90 days to harvest with sequential harvesting over weeks.
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Victory Garden
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Victory
Bad Cottonseed Discovered in South Alabama
Auburn Alabama reports a troubling cottonseed outbreak due to weather. Tests show germination rates at or below 25 percent in planting seed. Extension agronomist J C Lowery urges farmers to test seed immediately using a home method and to verify germination before purchase.
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South
Alabama
Auburn
Ala
REA Electric Service Surges Despite Wartime Restrictions
REA reported in its annual rural electrification review that farms and rural consumers gained about 10 percent in fiscal year 1945 46 bringing total REA customers to 1 152 013 up 110 210 from the previous year. The systems billed roughly 1 800 000 000 kilowatt hours of energy during the year.
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Auburn
REA
Rural Electrification Administration
Chilean Nitrate Industry and American Involvement
Describes Chilean nitrate production with American engineers and plants, noting bulk shipment from Chile and bagging at American ports. Highlights the natural composition including nitrogen, sodium, and trace elements like boron, iodine, manganese, copper, essential to plant growth.
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Chile
Insurance Offered on 1945 Cotton Crop
Alabama cotton growers may insure their 1945 crop against losses up to 75 percent of average yield. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation announced all American Upland cotton is eligible, including cottonseed. Contracts exist for sharecroppers tenants and owners with applications via county AAA offices. A minimum of 50 applications per county is required.
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Auburn
Ala
Alabama
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Annual Lespedeza Recommendations for Alabama Farmers
The article urges Auburn extension agronomist J. C. Lowers advises sowing annual lespedeza such as Korean Kobe and Common in February or early March for grazing or hay. Land should be disked ahead of seeding. beds settled. apply basic slag or superphosphate. It notes grazing can be boosted on land with limited permanent pasture, especially outside Ivy lime lands of the Black Belt.
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Kobe
Alabama
J. C. Lowers
APT Extension Agronomist
Black Belt
Cotton Likely To Stay Top Textile Material
Auburn report from USDA and WFA projects cotton will remain the nation's leading textile fiber despite rising synthetic competition. The interagency study weighs future production costs and textile use needs, noting synthetics may displace cotton in some applications but stop short of predicting the extent or timing, depending on value per cost and research impacts.
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Auburn
USDA
WFA
REA System Power Sales Reach 5.76 Million
The REA systems reported total power sales of 5.7629 million dollars for the year, up nearly 23 percent from the previous year. Most new customers were farms under WPB rules, with state and county Agricultural Conservation Committees handling farm applications and material allocations. An estimated 30 to 40 million Europeans were displaced by war.
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REA Systems
War Production Board
Tme
REA
Agricultural Conservation Committees
Phenothiazine reduces bloodworm infestations in horses and mules
Tests funded by the US Department of Agriculture show small daily doses of phenothiazine, about 2 grams, reduce bloodworm larvae development and improve health. Large one time doses and mixed rations proved less effective or unpalatable for horses and mules.
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Aubuebn
Asia
Home Gardens Need More Than Before
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urges Auburn readers to plant two gardens this year. He notes home gardeners produced over 40 percent of the fresh vegetable supply last year and calls for doubling efforts to ensure food for fighting men and national victory.
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Auburn
Marvin Jones
March Date Set For Legume Report
Auburn Alabama March 1 1965 date set by the AAA committee as the final deadline to submit performance reports for winter legumes seeded in the fall of 1964 The rule aims to ensure farmers are paid for winter production and to bolster the food supply as gardens contribute fresh and canned vegetables for the armed forces and the people.
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Als
Alsbams Aaa
A. W. Jones
Home Gardens
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