Will Grasshoppers Be Here in 1951 Forecast Based on History
State College extension entomologist weighs 88 years of South Dakota grasshopper history, linking outbreaks to dry weather and local climate variation. He notes man made factors like crops, ditchbanks, and tillage influence populations, and outlines control progress and 1941 egg surveys, with bait readiness and regional variations.
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South Dakota
Montana
Marth
Rosebud
Garson County
Huron
Water Storage Structures Serve Variety Of Purposes In Central South Dakota Districts
In central South Dakota, 75 water storage structures built by the Soil Conservation Service or its direction across Beadle Clark Jerauld Spink Day Faulk Kingsbury counties supply domestic and livestock water, wildlife habitat, fishing, recreation and ice, with James River dams storing most of the water. Built mainly by CCC enrollees on cooperator farms, these ponds support ducks nesting, game birds, migratory waterfowl and summer swim areas near Virgil.
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Soil Conservation Service
Beadle
Clark
Jerauld
Spink
Day
Faulk
Kingsbury
Cleo A. Treadwell
Virgil
Huron
Aberdeen
James River
Huron Soil Conservation Service
CCC
Huron City
Sail Conservation Service
Early visits to Rio de Janeiro spurred no settlement for decades
The site was first visited by white men in 1802 but no settlement was established for fifty years. This indicates a slow European colonization pace and emphasizes the delayed founding of a permanent community in Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio de Janeiro
Program Aims To Improve Family Living Efforts
This extension service program supports better family living amid higher prices. Nora M. Hott notes aims include planning food needs, simple irrigation, poultry, pest control, dairying, home meat, potatoes, beans, health, comfortable homes, clothing economization, and farm/home business efficiency.
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Extension Service
National Defense
Nora M. Hott
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Gilbertson
George I. Gilbertson
State College Extension
Aneoat
Northwest
Peavey
MONARCH & NATIONAL _ATLAS ELEVATORS
Armour and Company
Armour
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