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Show Farm Quarterly Carries Increased , Production Theme ; December issues of Farm and Home Science, farm quarterly of the Utah Agricultural 'Experiment station made available this week carried the theme of increased production for national defense. Articles by station research staff members dealt with meeting of hew production heeds through higher soil fertility, new and Improved Im-proved varieties of seed, control of disease, improved management practices and control of Insect pests, It was reported. In an article on higher soil fertility fer-tility fundamental to Increased production, Dr. D. W. Thome, research re-search associate professor In a-gronomy, a-gronomy, listed six factors which should be checked closely before beginning of tife 1942 crop season sea-son proper cultivation, moisture control, crop rotation, organic matter, mat-ter, commeroial fertilizers and alkali. al-kali. Also In the national defense Issue Is-sue of the quarterly was an article art-icle by Dr. John W. Carlson, member of the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industdy and federal collaborator col-laborator at the experiment sta- |