Soils Need Air for Total Crop Growth
A Purdue University study with researchers from Nebraska and the U S Department of Agriculture shows that introducing oxygen into muck soils dramatically boosts yields. When aeration reaches 4 inches yields rise modestly, but at 18 inches and beyond gains reach up to tenfold for crops like red beets corn onions and potatoes. Adequate plant nutrients and rainfall supporting those plots kept water from limiting production.
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Richard Mortis
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Conservation ‘Service
KNOW YOUR BREED Blue Game Chickens
Historians in Delaware note that during the Revolutionary era Captain Jonathan Caldwell’s men carried game chickens famed for fighting ability from a blue hen lineage. The state later adopted the Blue Hen’s Chicken as its state bird in 1939, and a photograph shows a blue fowl from a Black Sumatra cock and Blue-Splashed White hen cross developed by the USDA.
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Delaware
Jonathan Caldwell
USDA
Innovative trough design by James F. Lincoln foundation
A unique drinking trough with an overflow pipe to the larger trough eliminates the need for a float valve. The arrangement doubles as part of a fence and serves as a bath pen. Water from both troughs exits via the overflow pipe, sending water to a lower level.
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James F. Lincoln Foundation
Treating Turkeys for Blackhead Recommended
A brief note in the official publication of the American Veterinary Medical Association says Diisobutylphenoxyethyldimethyl benzylammonium chloride is recommended as a preventive for enteric hepatitis in poults, commonly called blackhead.
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American Veterinary Medical Association
Final World War II sea war tally against Japan released
A joint army navy assessment shows United States forces sank 9 736 068 tons of naval and merchant shipping out of 10 583 755 total. Britain 138 346 tons and Russia 9 893 tons contribute to the overall figures.
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Washington
Japan
Army-Navy
United States
Britain
Russia
Navy
Marine
AAF
Army
When a Dog Talks on Phone You Can't Believe a Word
In Los Angeles a lost dog call led Bernard Iner to think he found his terrier after Vic Thomas the cab company manager put the dog on the phone. The voice identified as Inez uttered Woof, but the dog turned out to be a Scottie, proving you cannot trust a dog's phone message.
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Los Angeles
Bernard Iner
Iner
Vic Thomas
Thomas
Inez
Expert predicts 15 percent meat supply rise in 1948 outlook
R. J. Eggert of the American Meat Institute told the Senate-House Economic Committee that normal fall and winter livestock movement should lift meat supplies about 15 percent above current levels, though the 1948 outlook remains subdued. He cited moderated prices, possible supply declines next year from crops and exports, and persistent demand driven by high employment and wages.
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Washington
R. J. Eggert
American Meat Institute
Eggert
Meat Industry Organization
Senate-House Economic Committee
OPA
War Hero Wermuth Divorced And Rewed Within One Hour
Arthur W. Wermuth once famed as the one man army of Bataan was divorced from Jean Wilkins Wermuth on grounds of intolerable indignities after a contested action. Half an hour later he married Patricia Steele, 23, a former Denver parachutist, in Wheatland Wyoming.
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Wheatland
Wyo
Arthur W. Wermuth
Bataan
Hill City
S.D
Jean Wilkins Wermuth
Traverse City
Mich
Wermuth
Patricia Steele
Denver
Young Chelsea Couple Welcome Baby Daughter
In Boston a 14-year-old wife Mrs. Shelby Mitchell and her 14-year-old husband Miller welcomed a daughter born at 6 pounds 10 ounces. Dr. Barnett H Rosenfield reported mother and child in good condition and noted the father met the maternity ward age requirement on his first visit.
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Boston
Shelby Mitchell
Chelsea
Miller
Mitchells
Barnett H Rosenfield
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