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Show 4 4 Conservation Practices Maintain Soils Productivity tjr.-ftr- ; Prevention of Erosion, 1 ft ( (i , . . .V. .v.' v.vwr W VW.VWAV MVW. ..I ITTI.. t vfrv-- What will the American farmer do after the war? Will he be able to grow and market the huge record crops of wartime? Will his land stand up under the stress of huge crops year after year? Early surveys indicate that the sturdy sons of the soil were already thinking out these problems in the midst of completing another amazing record harvest of food and fiber last year,' according to the War Food administration. Problems of volume of crops and adequate marketsmust await postwar developments, but both the American farmer and Uncle Sam are prepared to make necessary adjustments that will retain for the farmer, the stability he has enjoyed during the war. , First on the list of rural postwar planning to maintain production are rest and rehabilitation of the nations soil, reports show. Despite caie to preserve the land better than in World War I, continuous years of record production have taken their toll. But WFA points out that farming for war has clearly demonstrated the value of conservation practices as protection for the soil, as well as an aid to increased yield and higher quality crops. Acre yield in 1943 was 23 per cent greater than in 1935, the year before the governments conservation programs began to receive special emphasis. The 1944 harvest indicates a probable acre yield 6 per cent more than last year, or about 29 per cent higher than the 1935 figure. More than half the entire land area of the United States is in farms, a total of 1,060,852,000 acres. This includes cropland, rangeland and woodland. About 530,131,000 acres are available for crops. More and more farmers have learned to protect their land from erosion by contouring and terracing. They are replacing minerals and other soil nutrients depleted by constant cropping, and are using soil rebuilding crops and other conservation practices to protect and enrich the land. Boost Yield in Idaho. Out in Idaho, for example, on five acres of land where sweet clover was turned under, the per acre harvest of potatoes last year was 5,991 pounds greater than on the rest of the field where no green manure was used. Similarly, contour farming with intertilled crops in the north central states raised the corn yield 5.3 to 12 bushels per acre, and in the southern states increased cotton yield 29 pounds per acre. In addition, this practice was reported to have resulted in a national, saving of soil ranging from 1.5 tons to 126 tons per acre per year. Emphasis, during the war, of necessity has been .on such better farming methods as would give immediate results in increased yield and be simple to put into effect, WFA points out. Postwar farming will turn its attention to the longer-rang- e practices, the piore complex measures that may take additional labor and money, and a longer time to complete, but which bring more lasting returns and make for a better balance of land and use. Expansion of irrigation is expected to be one of the important larger conservation practices which will receive additional emphasis, particularly in the far west states. So important is planned irrigation to the productivity of western farming, says WFA, that the irrigated area, which includes only about 3 per cent of the land' in farms and11 per cent of the cropland, prog, " Ledger Syndicate. cram CHERUB Fur would loe ,skinm light In conversations bright t-n- tiry. d I tkink I nfcve. the bruns bvt e.h tt I tack tke Urge voctbuhry. R.TC" WNU Features. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AGENTS WANTED LADT WANTED In every community, both rural and city, to sell line of household necessities to her neighbors. Our line in- cludes such scarce items as cheese and laundry soap. Liberal commission. General Products Company Albany, Georgia. (U-S- k, OFFICE EQUIPMENT WE BUT AND SELL kfflce Furniture, Files. Typewriters. Add-n- g Machines. VCSafes, Cash Registers, DESK EXCHANGE BAIT I. ATI POULTRY WHITE LEGHORN CHICKS duces some 30 per cent of the a and executed conservation program on a farm is that fewer acres need to be planted to produce the same size harvest taken on land farmed without conservation practices. This means that a farmer, by using the right practices for his land, can rest one acreage while producing on another, yet get the same amount of a crop that in days required planting of the entire acreage. In this way, all his soil p will be kept in condition, he will get the crops he needs, and they will be of higher quality and bet, ter nutritional value. Summer Fallow. Most successful farm plans in areas such as the Pacific Northwest and the western portion of the Great Plains include summer fallow as a regular part of the years program, according to WFA. Experimental results in Oregon and Idaho show increases of 19.3 bushels and 19.1 bushels of wheat per acre, respectively, on fallow, compared to the return from land under continuous cropping. A group of West Virginia farmers reported that forage production increased 57 per cent on their farms from the application of a ton of ground limestone and 180 pounds of triple superphosphate per acre. At the same time, the protein content of the forage increased more than 40 per cent. Some 3,650,000 farms last year carried out one or more practices under the Agricultural Conservation program administered by AAA. A considerably larger number is estimated as participating in 1944. 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They wear them on their But in our mental gallry stayed That one . . . and only one! watch chains or ribbons. Little Boy Mother, is it true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away? Mother Yes, son. Little Boy Well, give me an apple, mother. I just threw a ball through the doctors window. DISC DOINS Whenever and wherever you get together the talk is bound to turn to Raising Okra for Oil Seed phonograph records those wonderMay Be New Southern Crop ful waxes that you cherish more Okra is emerging as something highly than your collection of Van more than a vegetable of debatable Johnson pictures. (And thats tall the merit, and is making a bid as a cherishing.) Here are some of coare that oldies south. becoming the for rapidly oil crop major This plant belongs to the cotton llectors items. If you have em family. Its fruit is a pod, 6 to 10t hold on to em: Minute MukaUpfl FUNNY TO EVERYONE BUT inches long. Usually the pod is Seeds the before ME OABRIELLS when The Voice with Harry James. green, By picked NUTCRACKER SUITE Freddy have set their oil. In dry okra pods, however, Dr. Julian C. Miller, Martin. STREET IN SINGAPORE Harry Louisiana State universitys noted seeds discovered and Frankie. James geneticist, plant OLD MAN RIVER Harry James. which produced abundant oil, equal DANCING IN THE DARK-Ar- tie in food quality and wholesomeness also Shaw. to cottonseed oil, and suitable LADY BE GOOD Artie Shaw. for use as a drier in paint. ESTRELITA Harry James. In addition, the okra fiber is BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY a have place and many tough, long fiber Both the Woody Herman. in making cordage. TAKE THE TRAIN The Duke. material surrounding the and pithy GREEN EYES Helen OConnel the seeds may prove a source of hulls. to and J. D. peanut cellulose similar breedMiller Dr. promptly began to be TRIXIE TEEN SJYS ing new varieties of okra, to than How do youuNon? 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Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding you must like the way it quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis WNU W 348 SfaaT Many girls are hostesses at USO dances and canteens and Service organizations. These girls are doing fine morale - building work and should be complimented on the effort they are making toward winning the war. Numberless soldiers and sailors have been cheered by the smile and interest of a hostess they have danced with and talked with. They have gone out of the country, to battle stations, cheered by the smile of the girl at the Stage Door Canteen. There are many, many types o:! volunteer war work for young girls, and every girl should do something to help win the war roll bandages, spot airplanes, donate blood, jwork in any of the volunteer agencies or be hostess at the service clubs. 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