Milford chronicle., 1944-03-10
DELAWARE'S
FARM FRONT
THIS WEEK
DELAWARE FARM FRONT

Director George L. Schuster OF
the Delaware Agricultural Exten-
sion Service recently appointed a
State Extension Garden Committee
to plan assistance to gardeners in
increasing their production this
year. Members of this committee
are Miss Louise r. Whitcomb.
home management specialist, chair
man; Miss Pearl Macdonald, extern
sion nutritionist; Miss Betty Burch,
acting extension editor; E. p. Bra
sher, truck crop specialist; C. E.
Phillips, extension agronomist, and
c. E. McCauley, county club agent
supervisor. Other members of the
Extension Service and Experiment
Station staffs will give their help
in carrying out this program.
This committee has already met
with county extension service staffs
10 plan local action, and informa-
tiOn is being distributed through
publications, news releases, a spe-
cial Saturday garden page in Will
mingtOn papers, and a special gar
den radio program ON the Delaware
Farm and Home Hour from Station
WDEL at l o'clock each Monday.
Miss Louise r. Whitcomb. chair
man of the State Extension Garden
Committee, attended United States
Department of Agriculture Inter
Departmental Victory Garden Com
mittee meeting for the eastern
states in New York March 2 and 3 /
in order to bring new information /
which is available back to Della |
ware gardeners.
Four thousand Delaware farm
ers have applied for Agricultural
Adjustment Agency payments for
soil conservation and war food pro-
ductiOn practices performed in
l943. These applications have been
accepted by. County Agricultural
conservation Associations during
the past three weeks.
During All Mobilization Week.
March to IL, clubs throughout the
country have been Strengthening
their programs in order to contri-
butte more to the total wal effort
At the same time new members
have been enrolled to help meet
this year bigger jobs of food pro-
ductiOn and civilian wartime activ-
tiles in which the All clubs play
large part. Club members learn
better methods of farming and home
making while they contribute TO
the national war effort.
G. NJ. WOrrilow, acting associate ,
director of the Delaware Agricul-
tural Extension Service. and J.
Frank Gordy, extension emergency
farm labor supervisor. recently
took part in a regional conference
at New York to develop plans for
meeting this years farm labor
needs in this section of the VOun-
try.
Three hundred ions of oil seed
meal are being distributed among
Della ware farmers and feed mixers
under the initial March ALLEGATION
~ l't-st wal Z Wy AhN W al FOOu Au
which is distributing
through Agricultural Adjustment
Agency farmer ratioming commit
ICES 90 per cent of the meal output
IF all oil seed professors.
A new folder giving important :
Methods for increasing yields of es-
;ential foods per each unit of land ,
md livestock, the basic need in this
Jear's production. is available
through the Delaware Agricultural I
extension Service at Newark, or ;
through county extension offices.
This publication is Wartime EXten-
sion Folder No. s, Produce Your !
share"
Miss Pearl Macdonald. extension
for the Delaware Agri- ,
Extension Service. repre-
ented the State Nutrition Commit ..
ee at a conference of the Nutrition
nd Food Conservation Branch OF
he War Food Administration in
lew York, March 6 to s.