Midway Carnival to Star At Orlando Fair This Year
The Orlando fair will feature a Midway Carnival with eccentric rides, carnival music, prize games, and a fireworks finale. The American Shows will display dramatic lighting using four 50 kilowatt searchlights from the Navy era, supported by eight thousand lamps. The midway includes a magic act, a cabaret revue Vanities, four tandem Ferris wheels, and a kiddie caterpillar ride, with midgets and exotic acts. Admission is 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children.
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Florida
U. Navy
Charleston
Florida Experiment Station develops new sweet corn variety
Florida's Experiment Station at Gainesville reports a new sweet corn variety, Florida 191, bred from northern sweet types and southern dent corns to fit Florida fields. Seed is limited. trials encouraged with reports to the Station. The article also notes ongoing work to adapt dent varieties to sweet types and promote forward agricultural progress.
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Omy Department
Gainesville
Florida
Florida Experiment Station
Citrus Agents Plan To Stress Quality And Lowering Costs
County citrus agents and state extension leaders outline a program for the coming year focused on producing high quality fruit at lower costs. Demonstrations will show inexpensive grove maintenance, pest control, soil management, fertilization, irrigation, and packing methods to minimize decay while expanding personal service to growers. They urge participation through local chamber of commerce support in Mount Dora.
Farm Credit Administration to Close Loans in January
The Federal Land Bank of Columbia South Carolina will close over eight million dollars in loans during January. By January 26, 1947, 4,927 loans totaling 7.81 million dollars had been closed, averaging about 1600 dollars per loan across roughly 200 daily loans. Loans proceed from appraisal within 48 hours of application, with final paperwork returning in ten to fifteen days and closing in about four weeks. Farmers should contact local association officials to start the process, including a financial statement, with production credit disbursed on a budget basis after passing through the Intermediate Credit Bank. Members must purchase 5 percent of their loan in class B stock as part of eligibility.
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Federal Land Bank of Columbia
S. C
F. H. Daniel
Land Bank
Carolinas
Georgia
Florida
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
Intermediate Credit Bank
Production ‘Credit Association
Florida foods to be featured in state next week
The University of Florida College of Agriculture with the State Marketing Bureau and civic groups urges Florida residents to observe Agricultural Food Products Week from February 5 to 10. The effort promotes sub tropical fruits such as avocado mango papaya pineapple banana sapodilla guava pears peaches plums figs berries and many more tropical varieties. Florida honey earns a national and international reputation for quality and Tupelo honey resists granulation. The drive highlights exhibitions at the Florida Fair in Tampa.
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University of Florida College of Agriculture
State Marketing Bureau
Civic
Florida
Shultz
College of Agriculture
Ida
United States
Germany
Tampa
City Leaders Drive Growth and Progressive Spirit
Optimism and progressiveness fuel town growth as business and leisure merge. Citizens should follow effective leadership to build better cities, with volunteers and a proactive ethic steering development and industry forward.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Publishing Co
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Hammermill Bond Typewriter
Manila
CROWN
Standard Okl Company
Kentucky
Bessie Andrus
Farm Credit Administration
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