Soil erosion contest promotes conservation and pond creation
The article notes a 1946 push creating twenty thousand farm ponds to aid conservation and farm management. It recalls an association formed forty years ago with dairy cows averaging 215 pounds of butterfat, now about a million cows in associations producing 339 pounds per cow per year. It quotes Patrick Henry on patriots halting gullies and ends with a line about buying a farm as a pinnacle goal.
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Patrick Henry
Richland School to Lose Longtime Teacher Rose Willis
In Richland School news a long serving teacher Rose Willis plans to leave at end of term. The Shafter Chatter reflects on her twenty one years of dedicated service, her impact on students and the community, and the sorrow at her impending departure.
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Rose Willis
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California Voices on Labor, Women, and Agriculture
California figures speak on wages prices and policy with Ernest Marsh urging compromise. Janet Clark comments on women’s power, Junius Harris defends dissent on medicine, Warren-H Atherton extols Alaska as a strategic bulwark, and soybeans rank high while farm land values rise. A soil management program with liming rotation and legumes is recommended.
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Ernest Marsh
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