Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-03-08
STATEWIDE PLAN FOR
INCREASED PRODUCTION
Bulletins of Extension Service OF
state College Gives Detailed plan
for Greater Food Production
in 1918

Extension service bulletin No. SO
of the State College, now in press,
innumerates the state plans for in
creasing food production for the sea-
son of 1918 and will be sent free of
charge to all who request 1t. The
bulletin is of 6 pages and was writ
ten by George Severance, vice-dean
of the college of agriculture and act
ing director of the state experiment
station, and w. A. Linklater, super
intendent of the Western Washing
ton experiment station at Puyallup,
assisted by other members of the col
lege faculty and station staff.
The definite aims in the proposed
food production propaganda are, for
convenience, grouped under two
heads in the bulletin, statewide and
regional
The statewide propaganda includes
better tIllage, better seed, utilization
of barnyard manure, vegetable pro-
duction, fruit production, control of
insect pests, control of fungous dis
! eases, pork production, poultry pro-
duction, and farm labor. Each of
these items is touched in a general
way by the writer's of the bulletin.
The propaganda for the wheat re-
gions includes the urging of the seed
ing of wheat on all lands that should
normally be seeded for the 1918
crop, the encouragement of seeding
on stubble land that should normally
be summerfallowed, and the encour-
agement of seeding wheat on some of
the best land that would normally be
seeded to barley or oats.
The production of more rye In the
very dry sections will be advocated
| and the importance Of timely soil till
age will be emphasized. Pea and
corn production on the better class
! of summerfallowed lands where tho
railfal exceeds IS inches will be
urged. Due to the present price and
market uncertainty the further ex-
tension OF bean production will not
be encouraged. Greater production
OF swine and sheep, and campaigns
for the control of wheat and other
cereal smuts, the control of smut
fires in grain fields and the eradica-
ton of ground squirrels are included
in the propaganda.
The wedding out of boarders
through the keeping of individual
COW records, the raising of heifer
calves from good dams, the immedi-
ate destruction or early vealing of
| unpromising calves, the production
of more green feed to keep the stock
in good condition during the dry
spell, greater use of silos and silage
and more economical feeding meth
DDS are urged as measures for great
er food production for use in the
| dairy regions of the state.
| for the irrigated regions are enumer-
ated the breaking up Of WORKOUT, un-
profitable alfalfa meadows for the
production of potatoes, corn or sugar
| beets, greater attention to irrigation
methods, production Of pork on al
falfa pasture and corn and the feed
ing of beef on alfalfa hay and corn.
Sixteen agencies are named to as
sist In the state plan for promoting
increased production, an enumera-
ton of the various means by which
each agency may assist being given in
each case. These agencies include
the extension service of the State
College the two state experiment
stations, the college Of agriculture,
state department of agriculture, the
Grange, Farmers Union, the press,
and the state editorial association,
banks, comm ercial bodies, railroad
companies, grain companies, seed
companies, various state agricultural
organizations, county agricultural
councils, county councils OF defense,
and creameries.
Agencies for the conservation OF
food to deal with the canning, dry
ing and preservation of food pro-
ducts, include the division of home
economics, with two statewide home
economics demonstrators and spe-
clalists, three district club demon
strators, and eight county club dem
onstrators.