Scenic Sky Line Drive Tour Through Virginia Mountains
A trip from Washington to Front Royal and Rockfish Gap along Shenandoah National Park highlights Blue Ridge scenery. The 107 mile route climbs from 1400 to 3680 feet, offers overlooks, picnic grounds, lodgings, and mention of wildlife and geology, with a concluding fall back to Waynesboro for meals and rest.
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Washington, D. C
Front Royal
Virginia
Shenandoah National Park
Dairies
Middle West
Blue Ridge Mountain
Shenandoah Valley
Piedmont Plateau
Blue Ridge Mountains
National Park Service
George
Ford
Sky Land
Rockfish Gap
Smoke Ridge Mountains
Blue Ridge Parkway
Waynesboro
United States
Cedar Rapids
Population on Farm Drops During War Years 1940 45
Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports farm residents fell by about five million from 1940 to 1945. In 1945 farm population rose for the first time since 1932 by 800,000, driven by returning veterans and natural increases. Net migration balanced between in and out of farms.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
All-Pullet Flocks Outperform Mixed Hens in Income
Indiana poultrymen saw higher returns from all-pullet flocks last year. Heavy breed flocks earned 2.40 per bird versus 1.95 for mixed flocks, while light breeds yielded 2.65 per bird for all-pullet flocks compared with 1.86 for mixed flocks.
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Fordue University
Indiana
Official Speciman Ballot for State Officers
Official specimen ballot lists candidates for governor Robert D. Blue Eagle Grove Wright County and Kenneth A. Evans Emerson Mills County for lieutenant governor J M Grimes Osceola Clarke County for secretary of agriculture Harry D Linn Des Moines Polk County for attorney general John M Rankin Keokuk Lee County with Franklin Miles Sewell E Allen Onawa Monona County and E L T Clinton County as county listings to complete the ticket.
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Robert D. Blue
Eagle Grove
Wright County
Kenneth A. Evans
Emerson
Mills County
Agriculture
Harry D. Linn
Des Moines
Polk County
John M. Rankin
Keokuk
Lee County
Frank Miles
Sewell E. Allen
Onawa
Monona County
Jones County
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Express
Cecil R
Democratic
Speciman
Rollo H. Bergeson
Sioux City
Woodbury County
Chet B. Akers
Ottumwa
Wapello County
J. M. Grimes
Osceola
Clarke County
Commerce
David B. Long
B. M. Richardson
Cedar Rapids, Linn County
Jessie M. Parker
Lake Mills
Winnebago County
Supreme Court
Theodore G. Garfield
Ames
Story County
Ralph A. Oliver
Charles F. Wennerstrum
Chariton
Lucas County
Norman R. Hays
Knoxville
Marion County
Congress
Henry O. Talle
Decorah
Winneshiek County
Tor
M. C. Hamiel
Tipton
Cedar County
J. E. Heiserman
Anamosa
Floyd Philbrick
G. K. Thompson
Clifford M. Strawman
Dubuque
Dubuque County
W. A. Yager
Spirit Lake
Dickinson County
Clarence E. Smith
Davenport
Scott County
Secretary of Agriculture
F. J. McMahon
Manning, Carroll County
Upton B. Kepford
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Isaac Snyder
Centerville
Apponoose County
Ray Walsh
Varina
Pocahontas County
Laura M. Nanes
John W. Anderson
Richard F. Mitchell
Fort Dodge
Webster County
Paul W. Richards
Red Oak
Montgomery County
E. P. Gabriel
Newton
Jasper County
Clinton, Clinton County
George Ramsey
R. T. Banks
J. Alvin Mitchell
Mart Sheaffer
Adel
Dallas County
Richard Lowe
West Des Moines
Lois Crawford
Boone
Boone County
Secretary of State
Frank F. Messer
Iowa City
Johnson County
Richard V. Bernhart
Oelwein
Fayette County
Cecil R. Farmer
Don S. Ruhl
George F. Specht
W. L. Pearson
Larry Robertson
Monticello
Jesse L. Holden
Catherine McCrea
Bess E. Sherman
Henry Eichhorn
C. F. Shimanek
F. L. Harrington
Wyoming
H. J. Mayberry
Lee Crain
Olin
Harm J. Dirks
Center Junction
Cecil L. Goettsch
Carrel Blood of
Henry P. Hughes
Cascade
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