Soil conservation takes center stage in Maryland PMA talks
Maryland officials urged renewed soil and land conservation as crucial amid high farm product demand. State Conservationist Edward M. Davis warned erosion and drainage issues threaten corn and tobacco output, citing the Linganore watershed and potential swamp land reclamation on the Eastern Shore. He noted PMA policy shifts, acreage allotments, and new reporting rules for lime and fertilizer deliveries as part of upcoming program tweaks.
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Baltimore
Akes Soil Conservation
Edward M. Davis
Maryland
Davis
Davis Id
Frederick County
Secretary of Agriculture
MLA
PMA
Lee
Electrification of Farms Expands Across Washington and Nation
Washington March 2 The push toward farm electrification accelerates as more than 7 percent of U S farms are now served. Since 1935 the Rural Electrification Administration has funded cooperatives wiring 250000 miles of lines, supplying over 5 million farms and rural businesses with power and cutting farm labor needs. Power use rose 28 percent year over year, aiding food production despite reduced manpower. FEATHER RECORDS Washington March 2 Weather Bureau report follows.
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Washington
Evens
Ural
Rural Electrication Administration
REA
New Giant U S Food Basket Opens As Reclamation Draws
Moses Lake Wash March 15 the U S Bureau of Reclamation will select 90 winners from 907 farmer applicants to buy 30 government owned tracts in Central Washington at 8 to 30 dollars per acre. The 2 508 acres will receive water from the Columbia Basin irrigation project and, when completed, will support 14 000 new farms and 85 000 people with potential yearly production reaching 100 million dollars.
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NEA
Moses Lake
WashThis Nation
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation
Washington
Columbia River
Columbia Basin Irrigation Project
Rhode Island
Bureau of Reclamation
Columbia Basin
Coulee Dam
Bureau
Legumes Boost Soil Nitrogen At Low Cost
A farmer explains legume seeds like alfalfa and clover can repay many times their cost by fixing nitrogen and restoring soil organic matter. Field trials show sweet clover and other legumes raise corn yields sharply, with profits from seed far exceeding fertilizer value, encouraging frequent legume rotations for hay, pasture, or green manure.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Wooster
Ohio
North Carolina
Covered Dish Social Elects Harmony Church Officers
The Willing Workers Society of the Harmony Church of the Brethren held a covered dish social on February 41. Officers elected were President Mrs. Roger Moser, Vice President Mrs. Gaither Moser, Secretary Mrs. Harry Ramsburg, Assistant Secretary Miss Annie Leatherman, Treasurer Miss Mildred Leatherman, Assistant Treasurer Mrs. Robert Smith, Sick Committee Mrs. Albert Brandensburg and Mrs. Norman Ford. Other attendees included Mrs. Emerson Harshman, Mrs. George Leatherman, Mrs. Edwin Johnson, Mrs. Henry Leatherman, Mrs. Carroll Leatherman, Mrs. Lee Summers, Mrs. George Brandenburg, and several Leatherman, Ramsburg, Brandenburg, Ford, Summers, and Baker family members.
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Willing Workers Society
The
Harmony Church of the Brethren
Roger Moser
Gaither Moser
Harry Ramsburg
Annie Leatherman
Mildred Leatherman
Robert Smith
Albert Brandensburg
Norman Ford
Emerson Harshman
George Leatherman
Edwin Johnson
Henry Leatherman
Carroll Leatherman
Lee Summers
George Brandenburg
Mary and
Charlotte Leatherman
Mary Ramsburg
Nadine Brandenburg
Edna Ford
Walli Smith
Connie Summers
Ruby Baker
DAV Nominating Committee NAMES for DAV Chapter No.5
The Disabled American Veterans Washington and Lee Chapter No.5 will submit names for vote at the March 15 meeting at the American Legion home. Commanders Yinger and Yelton, adjutant Ford, and others are listed for officers and two representatives to the convention, with further nominations welcome.
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DAV
Disabled American Veterans
Washington and Lee
American Legion
Charles Yinger
Jason Yelton
Casper Betson
Paul Weiss
James Rice
Russell Yinger
William Ford
Maxwell Turner
John Tracey
Yelton
Frank House
Jesse Remsberg
Edward A. Crowther
Messrs. Rice
Ford
Oice
Samuel I. Weston
Salisbury Miss Maryland beauty pageant canceled
The Salisbury Junior Chamber of Commerce will not hold the local Miss Maryland beauty contest this year due to lack of underwriting funds. Officials cited insufficient money to support the event. Citizens weighed in with mixed views on boxing shows and youth viewing, but no changes to planned programming emerged.
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Salisbury
Canning Boom Supports Farm Wages in Maryland
A Maryland study by the American Can Company shows commercial canning boosted farm wages to over 124 million dollars in recent years with 1950 wages alone exceeding 3.5 million for seven crops. The report credits high speed canning, improved containers, and market expansion for long term farm employment gains across the state and notes the shift from grain to canning crops as a key economic driver. It also mentions a West Virginia pulp and paper booklet distributed to promote forest practices and pulpwood production.
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American. Can Company
Margrave
Stile
Can Company
Maryland
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American Can Company
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company Pulpwood
Library of Conegress
Washington, D .C
Wood Department
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Cattle Grazing Across Vast U S Grasslands Volume
In the United States the grasslands and related lands cover about 1.135 billion acres, supplying roughly half the feed for livestock. Much of the western range is semiarid, with fixed irrigation and varying pasture quality, while improvements could boost pasture and hay to meet up to 70 percent of livestock feed.
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United States
Virgil Grasslands
America
Great Plains
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Pacific Coast
Washington
Oregon
Uvestock
H. H. Wooter
Cr. Barnes
Yearbook of Agriculture
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J. R. Kemp
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Woodsboro Livestock Sales, Inc
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Edward Brown
Airy, Md
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Chick’ Hatchery, Inc
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Ray 4. Smith
Edward F. Toe
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Gail L. Catshall
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