Stripcropping for wind erosion control in plains regions
U S CHEPIL explains stripcropping as a wind erosion countermeasure in crop fallow sequences across the Northern and Central Great Plains. Alternating erosion resistant and susceptible strips trap blown soil, with wheat or sorg hum stubble as common barriers, and widths tied to soil type and wind velocity to keep erosion near tolerable rates.
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Great Plains
Soi
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
How To Plan A Sewage System
Lincoln report cites E A Olson extension agricultural engineer urging adequate septic tank and disposal field capacity. He recommends tanks of 500 to 750 gallons to reduce maintenance and clog risk, notes larger tanks improve disposal field life, and stresses percolation tests before installation. Extension circular EC 703 and leaflet on household systems available.
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Lincoln
E. A. Olson
University of Nebraska
Olson
Farm Income Threat From Ag Revisions
The new parity price formula lowers parity prices about one third and reduces price supports from about 2.25 to 2.27 percent, potentially cutting farm incomes by hundreds of millions over the next years. Cotton may lose nearly 60 million from the 1959 crop, with tobacco, peanuts, rice, dairy, soybeans and other staples affected. wheat, corn, oats, barley, and sorghum could feel impacts in 1960 and beyond. The change revises the parity calculation using prices paid and received, aiming to reflect fair return but risking lower returns as market prices stay tied to supports.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Eisenhower
Congress
Benson
Farm Costs Rise as Incomes Stagnate in Latest Parity Report
The Agriculture Department reports living and production costs jumped to a new high last month while prices received for crops and livestock stayed flat. Parity indexes, revised from January 1950, show prices received at 244 percent of the 1910-14 average on Jan 15, unchanged from December and about 1 percent higher than a year earlier. The prices paid index reached 198 on Jan 25, up 1.0 percent from a month prior, a new peak, with parity at 82 percent in mid January, compared with 83 percent on Jan 15, 1958, and 83 percent on Dec 15. Under the old formula, parity would be 82 percent mid-Jan.
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Agriculture Department
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U. S. Chepil Agricultural Research Service
Manhattan, Kansas
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Illinois
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National Office OF Vital Statistics
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Sidney-Kimball
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Wm. D. Harte
9Th Avenue
Sidney
David Harum
Busboom Minerals
Farmers Co-Op Elevator CO
Lodgepole
the Friendly Bank
Potter State Bank
Potter, Nebraska
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C. A. Triska Socony Mobil Oil Products
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