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Show YOUNG ASTOR TO IMPROVE ESTATE Poughkeepsie, N. Y. March 7 The recent decision of Vincent Astor to devote some of his wealth, youth and energy to the agricultural regeneration regenera-tion of New York state took the form of action today In the offer to provide pro-vide farmers of Dutchess county, the seat of his ancestral estate, with white tartar seed oats at $1 25 a bushel. bush-el. Although young Astor himself is on the way to Panama in his yacht, the announcement Is made from Fern Cliff farm at Rhlnebeck. which he has decided to turn into an agricultural experiment station. Old farmers say that young Astor As-tor has shown good judgment in the selection of the first neighborhood crop to be improved. Oats in Dutchess Dutch-ess county rarely grow more than three feet in height and the heads are scanty and the kernels thin. The Astor farm guarantees that its seed oats will improve the crop in the county, producing five foot straw with long heads and thick plump heavy kernelB. |