Farm Workers Under Old Age Insurance Policy Details
The 1950 social security act excludes farm owners and part time laborers. Regularly employed farm laborers, after a three month apprentice period, must meet quarterly wage and continuity tests to qualify for retirement and survivors insurance. Wages in kind do not count. Family members are excluded as employees. Also notes a Maryland dairy cow achieving a 365 day production test, with 90 pounds butterfat and 46,409 pounds milk.
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Congress
Chemically Treated Seed For Good Crop
Plant pathologists urge chemically treated seed to prevent damping off in cool wet weather. Seeds dusted with Arasan Spergon or Semesan guard seedlings, boosting yields for peas and beans. Large growers can use measured amounts per pound. read directions. Maryland canning vegetables required over 1,000,000 eight hour days for field work in 1950.
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Agriculture Department
P. Doolittle
Maryland
American Can Company
Can Company
Janalysis
Grasses And Legumes Chief Food For Man And Animals
Grasses and legumes are the main forage and staple foods for people and livestock in the United States. The text outlines cereals as grasses and lists true grasses and several legumes, stressing the need to learn their structure, functions, and relationships. It emphasizes soil conservation, perennial growth, and the profitability of well managed grasslands for sustained yields and soil health.
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United States
Pastures Outfeed Grains On Less Fertile Soil Tests
Studies show improved pastures yield total digestible nutrients on par with high yielding crops and exceed other grain feeds. North Carolina pasture results rival 87 bushels of corn per acre though corn on same land reached 60 bushels. Utah irrigated pastures rival silage corn and surpass grain corn by about 30 percent. Ohio experiments favor meadows over grains in feed units. Pasture production costs are lower per 100 pounds of digestible nutrients than corn or oats. Returns per labor hour are substantially higher for pastures. Key practices include deep rooted grasses, Ladino clover, and tuned seed mixtures. Fertilizer and integrated pasture plans sustain year round forage.
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North Carolina
Utah
Ohio
United States
Middle Atlantic
Farm Machinery Needs Survey To Be Conducted
The Maryland PMA will survey county farm machinery needs for 1949 to project 1951 requirements. Led by Jos H. Blandford, surveys will use phone and spot checks, not farm visits, to assemble a true needs picture. Committees estimate needs as percentages of 1949 figures and consider substituting power for declining animal labor, aiming to support record output in 1951.
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Jos H. Blandford
Maryland
PMA
Blandford
Department of Agriculture
State Champion Boy And Girl Selected
Barbara Ann Riggs of Galthersburg and Gary Brauning of Finksburg chosen Maryland State Champion 4-H Holstein boy and girl. Their records move to Brattleboro Vermont to compete nationally for the Holstein 4-H awards. Barbara Ann, 17, Maryland University student, with five years of club work, was a 1949 National 4-H delegate and Dairy Congress participant. Gary, 21, Johns Hopkins student, 1949 National 4-H Dairy Efficiency winner, has 31 4-H projects and led his club.
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Barbara Ann Riggs
Galthersburg
Gary Brauning
Finksburg
Maryland
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Brattleboro
Vermont
Barbara Ann
University of Maryland
Chicago
Waterloo
Iowa
Gary
John Hopkins University
Good Guernsey Record in Peterborough Herd
Seven year old Guernsey cow Bonnie belonging to Andrew J Hoff of New Windsor Md produced 12 020 pounds of milk and 616 pounds of butterfat in a year milking twice daily for 365 days highlighting a national dairy record from the Pine Ridge Holddstar herd in New Hampshire and Maryland connection.
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Guernsey
Peterborough
N. H
Pine Ridge
Bonnie
Andrew J. Hoff
New Windsor
Knollhill Farm Honored for Ayrshire Breeder Award
W Paul Etzler of Knollhill Farm Mt Pleasant received the Constructive Breeder Award from the Ayrshire Breeders Association for top production and type. The 29 head herd averaged 9021 lbs of milk on a strict twice daily milking schedule and all stock has been bred or owned by the farm for at least four years. The herd includes three Excellent and twelve Very Good classifications and a 0.870 official classifi cation score placing it in the top 10 percent for type. The note also mentions a drop of about 500,000 farm workers from work in the recent weeks versus a year earlier.
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Harrisville Road
John Deere
McCormick-Deering
Libertytown
T. B
Deering Gang
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Rosenthal
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New Idea
Oliver
McCormick- Deering
Wiard
Barshear
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W. Paul Etzler
Knoollhill Farm
Mt. Pleasant
Ayrshire Breeders’ Association
Knollhill
The
Bureau of Agricultural Econ
Trout, Null and Null
Hayward Farm
McSherry
Route
Frederick
Taylorsville
Frederick Co
Farmall H
D. B
John Meore
Westinghouse
Libertytown Methodist Church
Farm employment trends postwar shift to machines
The report shows total employment at 7.876 million, up about 850 thousand from a month earlier. Family workers total 6.678 million and hired workers 1.198 million. Since 1947 peak, farm employment fell three years running, with 1949 about 330 thousand below the prior year and 1950 down about 400 thousand. The downtrend likely reflects greater use of farm machines.
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