Efficient Soil Management to Offset Increased Farm Costs
Agricultural agent Harold Ruggles outlines soil management as a defense against rising farm costs that have more than tripled since 1935 39. He notes 1947 costs at 14.9 billion, wages up 3.5 times prewar, and prices easing. He advocates crop rotation with alfalfa or sweet clover, legumes fed with phosphate and potash, liming, manure, cover crops, and contour cultivation to reduce erosion and lower per unit costs.
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Harold Ruggles
Hocking County
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Ruggles
Farm Ponds Advised For Long Service By Ohio Expert
Ohio State University agricultural engineering specialist Virgil Overholt says farm ponds must have sturdy earthen dams designed for 20 year storms. Set watershed limits, clear vegetation, use impervious subsoil, wide bottom five and a half times height, and three feet above water. Spillways must handle excess flows with grass or concrete depending on watershed size. Fence ponds, avoid trees on the dam, and divert water to tanks. Contour tillage minimizes silt from cultivated fields.
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Ohio
Virgil Overholt
Ohio State University
Overholt
Fertilizing Pastureland Pays Dividends Says Shaw
Paul H. Shaw, chair of the Hock ing County Agricultural Conservation Committee, argues fertilizing pasture pays off with more feed and richer soil. North Carolina tests on Dallas grass and lespedera showed forage rising from 1,731 to 2,717 pounds annually with lime and fertilizer, a 50 percent gain, while topsoil organic matter increased from 16,600 to 23,000 pounds in six inches.
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Paul H. Shaw
Hocking County Agricultural Conservation Committee
North Carolina
Dallas
Shaw
Soil management team promises richer crops and healthier land
Mr. Ruggles outlines a soil management plan where team members restore organic matter, rebuild soil structure, and increase water absorption. The approach aims to improve soil oxygen, provide root space, and ultimately yield higher crop production and better land quality.
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Mr. Ruggles
Additions Renewals To Subscribers List In Week
Rural Logan Daily News readers added and renewed. Names include William B. Connor Frank Mohler Albert E. Greathouse Francis Keck Amos Hoover Velma Mason Roscoe Mowrey Harry Armstrong J W Williams James H Anderson Maurice Acker Arthur H Miller Chester Kennard Florence Wells Vincent Hamilton Bertha L Roop Mrs M W Howdyshell Goldie Smith William Rheinscheld Eugene Harden Jess Thompson Harold Nihiser Harry Poling W S Harsh W E Tucker Ray Tisdale Kenneth Gordon Lucille Wright John Hood David W Mohler Robert Good Everett Klinger James Taulbee C A Woods Alva Props Paul Hansel Albert Sheets Carl Risch and others.
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Logan Daily News
William B. Connor
Logan
Frank Mohler
Albert E. Greathouse
Francis Keck
South Bloomingville
Amos Hoover
Velma Mason
Rockbridge
Roscoe Mowrey
Harry Armstrong
J. W. Williams
James H.anderson
Star
Maurice Acker
Arthur H. Miller
Nelsonville
Chester Kennard
New Plymouth
Florence Wells
Vincent Hamilton
Bertha L. Roop
M. W. Howdyshell
Goldie Smith
William Rheinscheld
Eugene Harden
Jess Thompson
Haydenville
Harold Nihiser
Harry Poling
Garden Clinic Q A From Victor H Ries On Plant Care
Readable questions and answers cover eradicating thorn bushes with bulldozers or herbicides, pruning and propagating a double flowering peach, pruning Bridal Wreath versus Van Houtte spirea, encouraging a dogwood to bloom, and identifying a fast spreading yellow Ranunculus repens.
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Anthony Waterer
Local Route Names Listed in Ogle County
A fragment lists routes and individuals including Emma Funk Logan Route 3 Lloyd Beavers Logan Route 2 Ray Burns Logan Route 4 Starling Codagen Logan Route 4 and O E Shirk Creola Route I, detailing civic mapping or road assignments.
CROP Program To Be Explained At Athens Meeting
Church and farm leaders in Hocking County will host an Athens meeting at 1 30 P M in the high school to explain the Christian Rural Overseas program CROP Speakers include Frank Farnsworth state agriculture director Carl Landes state CROP director and possibly Wade Koons Ohio CROP committee chair D W Gatehouse assistant to Landes The gathering aims to acquaint locals with CROP which gathers gifts in kind for overseas relief and expects 190000 volunteers to pledge in the wheat belt during harvest season Principal Ohio commodities expected are wheat and dairy products які.
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Hocking Lief Drive
Ohio
Christian Rural Overseas Program
CROP
Athens High School
Frank Farnsworth
Carl Landes
Wade Koons
Ohio Crop Committee
D. W. Gatehouse
Landes
America
Catholic Rural Life
Church World Service
Lutheran World Relief
Coroner Withholds Verdict in Fatal Head Blow Case
Stark County Coroner Edward C. Reno withheld a verdict in the case of Charles Gostong, 55, a laborer, found dead near East Cheek yesterday. The coroner ruled the death was caused by a crushing head blow.
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Canton, CO
Stark County
Edward C. Reno
Charles Gostong
East Cheek
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