The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-06-11
SWEAR PROGRAM TO AID
STATE FARMING PLANNED
Scheme Includes Crop Rotation,
Fertilization and Insect Con-
trOl-COunties to Cooperate
WORK BEGAN LAST YEAR

A five-year plan to aid the develop
,ment of Maryland's $4O0,000,000 ag-
ricultural industry has been worked
out by the extension service and other
departments of the University of Ma
ryland, in cooperation with the agri-
cultural and women's organizations
of the State.
Each of the % counties is to have
an individual five-year plan co-ordi-
mated with that for the state as a
whole, DR.. T. B. Syn1onds, extension
service director, who announced the
program, said Saturday.
Work Started Last Year
Work on the program started last
year with a survey occasioned by the
drought and the formation of the
state relief commission, of which DR..
Symons is member.
Formation and expansion of coop
eratives, crop rotation, scientific fer
tilization, Standardization and grading
of crops, and insect and disease con-
troll are emphasized in the program.
Increasing the number Of farms with
pressure-water systems by SO per
cent is concrete proposals.
"Any business having the magni-
tude of Maryland agriculture, de-
mands careful and thorough planning
if it is to achieve a full measure of
success" DR.. Symons said.
"The present is especially oppor-
tune for launching program of this
nature, because farming is considera-
bly, disorganized by the severe
drought and the generally unsettled
economic conditions. Substantial adj
justments must be made and this pro-
gram is intended to be a service in
this respect"
Plan Crop Rotation
In the division of field crops, of
which Maryland produces $41,0OO,O00
annually, the substitution of 100000
acres of winter barley and $4,000
acres of legumes for 100000 acres of
wheat is recommended. Other sug-
gestions are the increase of the aver
age yield of corn one bushel per acre,
boosting the annual crop by 100000
bushels; and to make fertilization "a
major consideration"
With regard to dairy products, the
program is for the regulation of pro-
duction to market demands. More ex-
tensive cooperative marketing, home
production of rs per cent of the feed
used, increasing the average produc-
ton per cow from 1850 to 5000
pounds, boosting by Is per cent the
amount of milk consumed in small
cities and towns, and the use of ten
per cent more milk and pure butter
by farm families.
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Recommendations regarding live
stock include increasing the practice
of selling cereals by feeding to hogs
and other live stock; and raising more
colts for replacement of aged work
animals.
Reduction of chick mortality to ten
per cent. Provision of better market
ing methods by organization into CO.
operative units; and organization OF
two turkey depots on the Eastern
Shore and one in Southern Maryland
are among the poultry plan objec-
tives.
Detectives in truck crop production
include reduction of production costs
2 per cent a year, boosting asparagus
acreage and certified potato and sweet
potato production.
In the field of farm management,
recommendation include decrease by
ten per cent a year the amount OF
marginal land not now profitable for
crop production; development of an
equitable system of renting farm
lands, and a better system OF taxa
ton.