DDT Detrimental To Fish and Wildlife
Auburn readers are warned that DDT can damage fish and wildlife. A note from the Fish and Wildlife Service urges caution as residual DDT contaminates shallow aquatic life. Recent Jersey beach sprayings caused thousands of young fish and crabs to wash ashore and die, with freshwater species similarly affected by DDT.
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Auburn
Air
Gah
Widlife
Edvise
Adenki Pearson
API
San
Jersey Beach
Five Mule Beach
Parutert
DDT Spraying in Stream Kills Fish Earlier Study
An experimental program in Lowndes County sprayed DDT over a stream. About 154 pards from the sprayed area reached a downstream pond. DDT entered a pond, killing fish within a short time despite immediate removal and fresh water.
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Fisher
Lowndes
Secretary Outlines Big Cotton Problems in Postwar Era
Auburn Alabama secretary of agriculture Clemian P. An derenn warns the American farmer must raise efficiency and cut costs to stay competitive. He cites high carry-over, global competition, and rising mechanization as key challenges. Encouraging factors include stronger global cooperation, full employment goals, diversified southern farming, regional industrial growth, new cotton uses, and government aid for exporters.
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Auburn
Ala
Clemian P. Anderenn
Secession Threat Shocks Wisconsin as Anti-Gambling Laws Stir
Upper Wisconsin districts threaten to secede and join Michigan’s peninsula or Minnesota amid new Wisconsin anti gambling laws. Britain Guyana is cited as the sole British possession on the South American mainland.
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Wisconsin
Upper
Michigan Peninsula
Minnesota
Britleh Guiana
Agricultural advice and airline traffic statistics note
The article discusses top dressing fall nitrogen for winter legumes to boost growth. It reports American Airlines carrying 72,216 450 revenue passenger miles in July, up 36 percent from July 1944, and notes no ground pepper imports in 13H.
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American Airlines
Daily Alteration and Moon Change Factoid
Almanacs note four changes of the moon monthly but daily changes occur as the moon appears differently each day. The text recalls T Barnum's 1827 circus being the first to be transported by rail.
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F T. Barnum
Increased Oil Drilling Activity Forecast For State
Mobile Alabama AP Dr Walter B Jones state geologist predicts southwest Alabama will see a sharp rise in oil exploration and drilling after the war. All current wells are in Choctaw County with potential new fields in nearby counties and notes salt domes near Mobile could boost chemical plant value.
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Mobile
Ala
Walter B. Jones
Alabama
Glbertown
Cin Choctaw County
Mississippi
Question Box on Turnip Web Worm and Oats Fertility
The turnip web worm infests cabbages collards and fall turnips and is best controlled by dusting with rotenone or ryolite every 1 day. For oats fertilization four methods are given including at planting and March 1 top-dress options with nitrate of soda ammonium nitrate ammonium sulphate superphosphate muriate of potash and basic slag, detailing potencies and timing.
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Wwa
Ruffin
Reasons Are Given For Liming Soils
AUBURN Alabama lime benefits soils by neutralizing acids and stimulating organic matter decomposition, supplying calcium for plant building, improving heavy soils, and promoting bacterial activity in the soil, among other effects.
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Auburn
Ala
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