Southeastern Poultrymen Form State Councils
Southeastern Poultrymen are forming state councils to establish a regional council for the area. The move is led by cooperation between the Agricultural Extension Service and the Poultry Section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Florida Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi and South Carolina have state councils with plans to organize Tennessee North Carolina and Alabama. Kentucky already has a standing organization.
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L. C. Salter
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Florida
Arkansas
Gia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
North Carolina
Alabama
Kentucky
Poultry Department of State University
College of Agriculture
State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Veterinary Board
Livestock Sanitation Board
State Department of Public Health
State Department of Public Health. the Regional Council Would Be A Federation of
Butter Price Margin Narrows Says Bureau
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics notes New York butter was 15.5 cents a pound higher than London butter in March, with margins running 17 in February, 16 in January, and 15.3 in December. Domestic milk output on March 1 was 6 percent below a year earlier. First-quarter butter imports were minimal, and New Zealand production is falling. Great Britain remains a top market while U S creamery butter consumption rose 2.7 percent. Germany’s dairy restructuring has curbed imports recently.
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New York
London
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
United States
Germany
New Hurricane Warnings Service Aims at Citrus Growers
A new advisory service for citrus growers and farmers about approaching hurricanes is authorized in the Agriculture Appropriations bill. Florida will receive 15000 dollars for operation and maintenance. The U S weather bureau will plan the service, likely using radio and newspapers, with approval announced by W J Humphreys. Additional funding includes 10000 dollars for citrus decay research in transit and improvements in fruit handling, plus 10000 dollars to study production features of citrus and other subtropical fruits.
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Senate
House Agriculture Committees
Florida
U. S. Weather Bureau
W. J. Humphreys
Bureau of Plant
Moycar
D. F. Fischer
Bureau of Plant Industry
Olsen resigns as chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Nils A. Olsen, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, resigns to become manager of the farm investment department at Equitable Life Assurance Society in New York. Dr. A. G. Black will succeed him as chief, with Olsen ending a 1919 to 1928 career at the department.
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Nils A. Olsen
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Wallace
Equitable Life Assurance Society
New York
A. G. Black
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Olsen
Bureau
Mr. Olsen
Department of Agriculture
Agricul
Tural
Nitrate Bureau Funds $5000 Award for Element Research
The Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau awards five thousand dollars annually for research on the value of rarer elements in agriculture. The American Society of Agronomy sponsors the prize.
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Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau
The
American Society of Agronomy
Adjustment program for rice announced
The 1935 rice production adjustment program for Louisiana Arkansas and Texas involves benefit payments to growing farmers financed by a processing tax of 1 cent per pound on rough rice. The program, based on an amendment to the Agricultural Adjustment Act, will take effect on April 1 1935.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Sugar Beet Acreage Filing Extended to April First
The final date for filing sugar beet acreage contracts for the 1935 season was extended from March 25 to April 1.
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Agrico
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Walter
Valencia
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James H. Fassett
Orlando
American Agricultural Chemical CO
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Clyde-Mallory Lines
Jacksonville
Miami
Tampa
New Orleans
G, W. Bartlett
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