Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-01-02
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. 1925.
Virginia State Chamber
of Commerce

Richmond, Va. Dec. 27-More
economical methods of pro-
duction, better methods Of mark
citing, the production OF more
home supplies and the fitting oil
production to consumption are
the four outstanding recommen-
dations in the Virginia Agri-
culture Advisory ConHcil's five
year program for the develop
ment of Virginia Agriculture.
made public here today by the
Virginia State Chamber of Com
merce. which will cooperate in
it's completion. The program is
the result of continuous work
since August, 1922, by repre-
sentatives of thirty-four cooper
atiug farm organizations work
lug through the Extension
Division of the Virginia poly
echnic Institute. 1t is the most
complete document of its kind
ever compiled in Virginia.
1t is composed of the reports
of tue committees on Agronomy,
Dairying, Animal Husbandry,
Poultry, Truck Crop Production.
Horticulture, Agriculture, En-
gineering. Economics and
Marketing, Agricultural Investi-
CATION, Agricultural Education
and Rural Home Development.
and contains a complete sum-
mary of agricultural conditions
in Virginia from every possible
angle.
The reports shows the gross
income of Virginia farmers in
1928 to have been S187, 000.0 900.
Three statewide surveys aud one
statewide county survey are
recommended by the various
committees. These recommen-
dations include a solid survey of
the entire State, as soon as funds
are available for this use over
the present needs of the ex-
pertinent stations in the State.
The committee on Dalrying
urgently points out the need of a
survey of milk and milk pro-
ducts to be conducted by the
Virginia State Department OF
Agriculture and the State Agri-
cultural College, to determine
markets and other things vitality
fleeing the dairying industry.
The present condition of the
richard industry is made the
ubiect for third survey, to be
made at once, aud the results
urned over to the farmer at the
earliest possible moment. Specia |
emphasis is laid in this report on
the loss of Southern markets by
the Virginia apple growers.
Other recommendations calling
for an assessment of one cent a
barrel on all fruit inspected, for
purposes OF advertising, are made
Some of the other more inn
portant recommendations are the
close cooperation with and
support of the State Forestry
Department in the Development
of State and Private Forests !;
the formation of Statewide egg
cooperative marketing associ-
alton to cooperate with the
national association, statewide
survey by counties of the amount
of hay grown to ascertain it it is
sufficient for local needs the
greater production of seed po-
fatoes in the elevated sections of
Virginia, that farms used for
corn production of corn yielding
less than twenty bushels to the
acre be turned to some other use;
the encouragement of cooper
alive tobacco growers marketing
associations and extreme
caution in the further expansion
of cotton raising in Virginia.
This last recommendation is
made on the grounds that cotton
production will not be as pro-
ftable as it proved last year
when the major cotton pro-
duction sections further south
get back to normal, and the ack.
nowledged shortness of the COT
ton growing season in the State.
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