davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23
Agronomists Search For
Better Summer Pasture

Better summer pasture for Della
ware is the aim of several agron-
omy experiments at the Univers-
| ity of Delaware Research Substa-
ton at Georgetown. Forage mix
lures, fertilizer treatments, irrigas
ton, green manure studies, and
supplemental pastures crops will
be on display at Farm Field Day,
August 5.
Pasture irrigation is current
interest, says Bill Mitchell, assist
ant extension agronomist. The
irrigation trials at the Substation
have been underway for two years
on limited basis, and new irriga-
tion equipment is being installed
in time for Field Day.
Irrigation results so far show
definite benefits in yield and
quality of sand. For instance, in
four cuttings so far this season
Ladino clover-orchard grass mix
ture which was irrigated yielded
I3.4 tons per acre. A non-irrigated
check plot yielded 2.3 tons per
acre. In 1852, there was 27 per-
cent increase on the irrigated
Iplots. Ladino-brome grass mix
lures showed even more increase.
but Mitchell points out that bronze
grass is not naturally suited to
Delaware's dry summers. An
other advantage of irrigation is
evident in the better carryover
stand of the irrigated plots. "You
get more return on your original
seed and labor investment" says
Mitchell.
Under irrigation, Ladino clover
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23

is ready to cut every three weeks.
1t comes into full bloom in Is to
21 days. This is true otherwise,
too, says Mitchell. That fact can
be worked into regular pasture
programs by using rotation plots,
and grazing every three weeks.
Pasture fertilize experiments us
ing 20 dicerent ratios are laying
the basis for a definite change in
pasture fertilizer recommendations
for Delaware. 1t will run one more
year, but it is evident already that
the University might recommend
higher nitrogen use, along with
complete fertilizer that has ample
phosphate and potash. This is
particularly true for the soils in
the southern part of the state.
Sudan grass varieties are being
tested annually. Visitors to Farm
Field Day can check the yields and
stands that day.
The green manure programs are
concerned with maintaining or
ganic matter in southern Delaware
soils. Leo ]. Cotnoir, associate
professor is conducting the expert
ments and will be on hand to an
swer questions. His work empha-
sizes the Importance of green man
ures in crop rotations.
"All of these experiments"
Mitcrell points out, "show that not
any one crop or method will solve
Delaware's need for better summer
pastures. A good farmer will
consider four things using the
right forage mixture with adapted
crops, right fertilization, supple
mental pastures, and the practical
ity of irrigation"
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23
Search For Disease
Resistant CantalOupes

whats in a cantaloupe ?" might
bring the same blank expression
from most people as the question
How is a duck?" An exception
is Professor L. R. Detjen, of the
university of Delaware.
Detjen not only knows what's in
cantaloupe - he puts it there
himself in a breeding project in
volving "a selections from four or
liginal varieties, and 31a acres of
land. His work will be shown to
the public during Farm Field
Day, August 5, at the research
substation, Georgetown.
Present Delaware melons have
good size, netting, orange flesh and
good shipping quality, says Detjen.
But too often they lack high eat
ing quality which everyone ex-
poets. This mediocre flavor is
sometimes due to the variety, but
more often is faulty maturity
Diseases such as downy mildew
and macrosporium leaf spot come
along at the crucial time and de.
stroy the green foliage. This
means the melons will not mature
with the highest sugar content anc
best flavor.
Disease resistant varieties car
overcome this fault. That is wha
Detjen is striving for. He started
in 1850 and intends to keep at i
until desirable strains are fixed
This may be several years for it /!
a long term project
A cross that other scientists sait
couldn't be made is the basis O
much of Detjen's work He wa.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23
Marketing Cost
Continues To Rise

Farmers are wondering why
they don't get more money from
their crops. and city people wonder
why they have to pay so much for
food Few can realize where the
dollar goes and why it is spent as
it is-
willard T. McAllister, extension
marketing specialist at the Uni
versity of Delaware, points out
that farmers are receiving less to-
day than they did eight years ago.
Why is there change?
This year farmers have received
only 46 cents out of each dollar
spent for food. The other 81 cents
went to the middleman. The op-
posite was true eight years ago.
Fifty-four cents went to the farm
er and 46 cents went to middle
man. Does this mean that the
middleman today is making a much
bigger profit than he did eight
years ago? No, he isn't. Instead,
the cost of marketing has gone up
higher and stayed up while farm
prices have declined.
McAllister makes the two fol-
lowing points: 1. Cost of food tc
consumer is affected more by mar.
keting costs than by production
costs. 2. Some farmers individ
ually or as a group may be able
to do the marketing job cheaper Of
better than a distant middleman
There are especially good oppor
tIinities in Delaware to sell eggs
chickens, turkeys, honey, veget
ables, and fruits individually, tt
eliminate the expense of the mid
dleman.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23
Keep Chickens Cool
Give Them Air

Cross-ventilation is by far the
most important factor in keeping
chickens cool in hot weather.
That's the advice of Silas Nc
Henry, assistant poultry specialist
of the Delaware Agricultural Ex-
tension Service.
Staggered windows in the front
wall are one way to have cross
ventilation near the door as well as
near the roof. Frank Tharps
house, near Lewes, is a good exam
pie (see picture). The lower win
dows are opened only during hot
weather. Hinged boards under the
caves in the rear of house are
quite common. Milton Porter, of
Lewes, is one of. the few who have
hinged boards near the floor, for
ventilation down where the birds
are (see picture). He has IA inch
slots in both front and rear walls
of his "a foot deep house. With
cool air coming in at the bottom
and going out the top, his house is
cool all summer.
Walter Pyle, of Stanton, has two
rows of hinged doors, two foot
wide, in the rear of his broiler
house. When these are open, air
circulates freely through the house
and the lifted doors keep driving
lains out.
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NEWS OF INTEREST TO FARMERS AND FARM FAM
lilies OF KENT COUNTY

McHenry points to Byard Car
means house at Laurel, as an ex-
ample of excellent cross-ventila-
1t can be opened from ground to
roof, both front and rear. On the
south side are removable celoglass
windows. On the rear wall are A.
by g. removable panels of asphalt
treated insulation board. These
are alternated with panels of i'm
itation glass. The panels, plus the
double doors on the end of the
house, are removed as needed in
the summer. Skylight ventilators
help hot air escape through the
roof.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23
Delaware Observes
Farm lsafety Week july Is-2s

Farm Safety Week July 1925
'Farm to live and live to farm.
That is what President Dwight d
Eisenhower said in his National
Farm Safety Week proclamation.
.I hope all those who farm tc
live will adopt safe practices
now" says George M. Worrilow
vice president of the farm safety
committee of the Delaware Safety
Council, and director of the Agri-
cultural Extension Service. Mr.
worrilow, along with other farm
leaders, calls for an all out drive
to cut the accident toll among
farm residents.
In the 10 years National Safety
Week has been observed, accidents
have been reduced 20 percent. This
year Delaware has taken an inn
portant step to further cut that
toll. Each county has formed
safety committee. One of their
main jobs is to conduct a survey
OF all farm and home accidents in
rural areas for a one year period.
1One-hundred and fifty community
reporters are helping.
During the first four months of
the survey, 453 accidents were re-
ported. These were serious enough
to involve doctors care or hospit-
.alization. Falls were the leading
cause, carelessness with machinery
second, and fires third.
National Farm Safety Weeks
objective is to make rural resi-
dents so conscious of accident haz-
ards that through their own eff
forts, agriculture can be made as
safe as other industries. Right
now, agriculture is the most dang
erous industry in the nation-ac-
cording to accident figures.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23
Soil Samples Advised For Pastures
To Be Reseeded This Fall

4O bt AsCctC1t1 1tbS ehh
Farmers who are planning early
fall seeding of pastures and alfalfa
should have soil samples made
now, advises William Tarbell, Kent
County Agent.
Since January /, 1858 farmers in
Delaware had 3,055 soil tests
made. These farmers all agreed
that it was profitable to have soil
tested.
A soil sample will show whether
or not lime is needed, and will give
an indication of the fertility level
of phosphate and potash in the
soil.
The County Agents Office has
soil boxes and soil record sheets
for taking samples. Be sure to get
representative sample. Instruc-
tions are on the back of the soil
record sheets. Read and follow
the directions carefully.
If lime is needed it can be ap-
piled before seeding. The PHI for
alfalfa should be 6.5 or above, and
for pasture 60 to 6.5.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23

successful in crossing variety
from India with our commercial
melons Smiths Perfect Hale's
Best and high quality California
cantaloupe bought by chance on
the open market are the other
three parents The California mel
on has exceptional drought resist
ance valuable in Delaware
The Indian melon looks highly
undesirable because of large GU
cumber shape, white esh, cucum-
ber taste, and no netting. But
it has that precious resistance to
downy mildew and leaf spot. All
four varieties are being combined
in various ways. Offspring are Sc
lected for color, flavor, disease re-
sistance, netting and yield. White
flesh color is being eliminated. An
emerald green color, already iso-
lated, is very pleasing in appear
ance. Only the deepest shade of
orange is to be fixed through fu-
ture breeding.
| Detjen hopes his project will re-
suit in high quality variety, with
improved disease resistance. Such
melon would do much to restore
lost markets and better prices to
Delaware growers. Results would
prove useful in other states, too
Constant contact with other ex-
pertinent stations helps prevent
duplication of extensive projects
such as cantaloupe breeding.
The melons on these varied off.
spring will be maturing around
Field Day time. Visitors will be
able to compare disease resistance
and fruit characteristics. Profes-
sor Detjen will be on hand to ex.
! plain and answer questions.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23

. lis High in TDN-Over 400 lbs. per Ton!
. lis Low in Priee-Takes Advantage of Favorable
Prices Medium Protein lneredienis
. lis 1920 Profen--Recommended for Feeding with
Good Pasture
Want more TDN for fewer dolIar7 Then try I6% Pas
fue Dairy. feed designed TO give you higher pro-
ducton from pasture at lower feeding eosfs IFS
economical gives you TDN for your feed dollar.
Contains ~ fat and is formulated with ingredients
of proven mk-m ability. Try Southern States 6%
Pasture Dairy feed right away and keep your milk pro-
duction high during the entire pasture season!
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23
Move Air Mechanically

IF the wind won't blow, cool
your poultry houses by moving the
air mechanically" suggests 81
McHenry, assistant poultry spec
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23

ialist of the Delaware Agricultural
Extension Service.
Exhaust fans to draw out hot air
are particularly valuable in wide
houses with gable roofs, says Nc
Henry.
Smyrna times., 1953-07-23

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
Tau Kappa Epsilon
To Hear News AnoIvst

Milt Dean Hill, news analyst,
will address the monthly dinner
meeting of the Washington
Graduate Chapter of Tau Kappa
Epsilon Fraternity on news COW
erage in the 1852 presidential
campaign.
Newly elected officers of the
Graduate Chapter will be in
stalled at the meeting at 6 pm.
Tuesday, in the T. K. E. chapter
house, 2818 Connecticut avenue
NV. They are: John S. Connol-
ly, president; Gordon Whit,
vice president; Edward Geheres,
secretary, and Charles Bronson,
treasurer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO, Feb. THE flood
tide of spending is rising to new
high levels in the States.
An Associated Press survey of
the A State capitals where legis-
latures are meeting shows:
Proposed budgets are higher
in 81 States.
They are lower in only five.
In the other 10 States there is
little change or, in most cases,
the budgets still are being pre-
pared.
These budgets are recon-
mended plans for spending in
the next fiscal period-a year or
two years. The legislators can
slash or increase the items.
Big Gain in Spending.
But as the budgets now stand
increases add up to $632 million
in the 81 States where boosts
have been suggested. And in the
five States where decreases have
been proposed the reductions
add up to $57 %million.
Thus, the overall result in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1953-02-08
State Spending to HitNewHigh
In Budgets Before Legislatures

these rs States would be a net
gain in spending of $575 million.
The 48 States spent record
total of $13 billion in 1851. The
current trend indicates a new
record is in the making.
Gov. Earl Warren has asked
California lawmakers for a rec
ord one-year Q953-54) budget
of 81 1926, ISL ,805-a sum $82, 1877
967 higher than 1928 expendi-
lures. Most of the additional
money was approved by the
voters in November for further
school support.
Gov. John S. Fine is asking
Pennsylvania legislators to adopt
a budget of 81 .428,777,543 for a
two-year period starting June /.
The total is 5000, 777,5 SAB higher
than the budget for the current
biennium.
Drop in New York
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New
York has proposed appropriations
for one year which total $1,O72,-
484 ,440-a drop of $36,362 ,230
from the total appropriations in
the present fiscal year.
Those are the only billion
dollar budgets submitted to legiS-
latureS thus far.
States where proposed budgets
show reductions are New York,
Massachusetts, Nebraska, Utah
and Montana.
States where financial blue
prints show increases are Ari-
iona. California, Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana. Kansas, Maine, Mary
land, Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
vada, North Carolina, Oklahoma.
Oregon, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Texas,
Vermont, Washington and West
Virginia.
Tax Boosts Opposed.
Income and outgo for State
governments have become I'M
comfortably close. In 1851, the
latest year for which figures are
available, the 48 States spent
$13 billion and their revenues
totaled $12 billion.
This condition would seem to
offer two fundamental choices:
cut spending or raise taxes.
New or higher taxes are being
considered in some States.
But under Gov. Dewey's plan
there will be no change in any
of New York's tax rates. Gov.
Johnston Murray and top leg
islative leaders in Oklahoma are
opposed to any increases.
Gov. William G. Stratton of
Illinois, Gordon Persons of Ala
bama, Francis Cherry of Ar
kansas, Dan McCarty of Florida
and Paul L. Patterson of Ore
gon have spoken out against any
tax increases.
And Gov. j. Bracken Lee told
Utah lawmakers:
Il urge again that you give
first consideration to the long
abused and forgotten taxpayers
by reducing taxes"
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Pentogon Considers Dropping
Broad Mobilization Base

built up-those are the things
we are looking over very care-
fully because we don't want to
spend the Nations money for
something we don't need to do
now" Mr.. Wilson said.
To Close ArsenaIs First.
If carried out, the plan will
bring about the closing of Gov
ernrnent arSenals and other
facilities first. Mr.. Wilson and
associates. who have spent all
their lives in the production
business, will favor the retention
Of privately-owned plants. But
eventually some of these also
would feel the impact.
1t is easy for the Defense De-
partment to order its own in
stallations sealed up and placed
on standby basis. But the
problem Of privately-owned fac
tories, some of them partially
financed with Government
funds, is, another matter. One
proposal calls for buying the
plans outright and placing them
on a standby basis. Another
would lease them to private con-
Germs with provision for convert
ing them back to weapons pro-
duction quickly in an emer-
gency.
The change unquestionably
would bring about some unem-
ployment or dislocationS of
workers, at least temporarily.
However, the end production
goals would not be sacrificed
and concentration at one plant
would bring more employment
there.
The plan-advanced at a time
when munitions production is
reaching the leveling off period
Evening star., 1953-04-05

also would mean some sacrifice
of the immediate mobilization
potential since factories cannot
be reopened or converted over
night.
Mr. Wilson also has moved
into the production field to cor
rect certain sources of supply
which are not in balance. Parts
of weapons often are manu-
factured at several points and
then assembled. Cases have been
noted where one small part held
up the final assembly and other
parts overf1owed all over the
assembly place.
Similarly, note has been taken
OF the modification of certain
weapons Immediately after their
construction. Action has been
taken to include the modifica-
tion process in the manufac-
turing.
However. President Eisen-
hower's defense chiefs are NOV
ing slowly on the whole program
No dramatic developments can
be expected, .
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Booker I. Washington S
Daughter on Radio Today

Mrs. Portia w. Pittman, the
daughter of the late Negro edu-
Gator. Booker T. Washington, will
outline her fathers life in an
hour-long radio program today
beginning at 1870 pm. over Sta
ton WOOK.
Appearing with her on the
hour, known as Americans All, "
presented by Tomlinson D. Todd,
will be Miss Gertrude Brown,
now in her COS, who taught the
former president OF Tuskegee
University when he was a youth
in Virginia.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
BIitz Force Weighed
To Halt 0Ver-Use Of
Parking Meter Spaces

District officials are consider
ing formation Of a faSt-moving
task force to ticket cars left for
longer than an hour beside
downtown parking meters.
Engineer Commissioner Louis
w. Prentiss said the move was
aimed mainly at people who
feed nickels into the meters and
park all day on a downtown
street for 40 cents"
Gen. PrentisS said he has
asked Corporation Counsel Ver-
non E. West for a legal opinion
on whether parking meter re-
ceipts can be used to hire such
an enforcement team.
The request is one of three
new steps by the general to ease
downtown traffic congestion and
get more data on parking prob
lens. In addition, he has:
Asked private parking inter-
estS to prepare a study showing
hour-by-h use of private
parking lots and garages during
an average week in various
downtown areas. He said he was
not asking for data on specific
establishments. but that the pic
ture In specific areas be given.
Asked the same interests to
furnish him in confidence a FORE
cast of plans for future down.
town parking lots.
The general said he thought
a flying squadron" of five or six
parking meter enforcers would
be adequate to cover the down.
town area. He has not decided,
he said. whether such unit
should be assigned to the Police
Department. But they would
have top authority to issue
tickets. he said.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
So Many Children
Thut One Gets Lost
By the Associofed Press

TRENTON. Mo-, April 4.-The
next time Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Terry of Melbourne. Mo-, bring
a load of children here to attend
the movies they'll call the roll
before going home.
The Terrys loaded their truck
with six of their own children
and those of friends from Mel
Evening star., 1953-04-05
lContinued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
Lovett theory was that, in event
of all-out war, the wheels could
be accelerated overnight bring
ing on mamouth flow Of planes,
guns and tanks. Full mobiliza-
ton would be accomplished i'm
mediately.
Another factor often advanced
in favor of this plan was the
dispersal of industries. The blitz
of one plant with an atomic
bomb woulG not bring all pro-
duction to full stop.
However, Mr.. Wilson Is said to
feel that such a program is both
too expensive and unnecessary
Because of such things as null
tiple managementS, the unit cost
of the end weapon has been
higher than it would have been
if production were concentrated
in one plant.
Concentration of full produc-
ton in one plant would bring
about considerable money saw
ings and the others could be
reopened by the time men had
been trained to use the weapons
produced in the event of an
emergency anyway, Mr.. Wilson
is said to believe.
A tip-off on this line Of
thought was contained in a
little-noticed statement by the
Secretary at his first and only
news conference. He was asked
about his economy plans, about
which little has become known.
If we are spending money for
a big theoretical capacity that
we may not need, or if we did
need it, we'd have time to get
it before some of the other things
that would be required could be
Evening star., 1953-04-05

bourne and Brimson last night
to attend a show here.
When they got home. 8-year-
old Clarice Brown was missing.
A check showed she had been
left at the theater.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Supphires Located

NEW DELHI.-Sapphires are
found in India, Burma. Thailand,
Ceylon. Australia and the United
States,
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Runnersup Now Need Miracle
To Prevent Subway Series

has hit 81 home runs this sea-
son but he hadn't connected in
the Polo Grounds until last night.
With two men aboard and the
Dodgers trailing by four runs in
the seventh, Roy poked a Hoyt
Wilhelm pitch into the lower
right field seats. In the ninth,
with two out and the Dodgers
still a run behind, he lofted an
other Wilhelm delivery off the
scoreboard in left field for an
other homer.
FurilIO Scores Winning Run.
Carl Furillo connected with
Wilhelm's first offering in the
10th and drilled it into the up
per leftfield seats for the run
that won the game. Glen La
bine, last of six Brooklyn pitch
ers, received credit for his sec
ond victory in the Dodgers last
two games.
Home runs figured heavily in
the scoring at Pittsburgh, too.
Frank Thomas blasted a pair
for the winning Pirates and Earl
Torgeson got one for the Phils.
Ted Kluszewski got four hits
and four runs, Willard Marshall
hit his 14th home run and the
Cubs contributed four errors as
Cincinnati routed Chicago.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Distance Swim Crown
Defended by Konno Today
BY the Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Aug. IA.
Ford Konno of Honolulu was
ready to defend his distance
crown today in the AAU National
Outdoor swimming champion
ships.
The 1,5OO-meter freestyle is
the only event on the schedule
for the opening day. Konno won
that distance in the Olympics at
Helsinki last year in 18 minutes
80 seconds.
The AAU event was a mile
last year, and Konno won that.
Two Yale men, John Marshall
and Wayne Moore, who finished
second and third last year, are
back to challenge Konno.
Konno, star of the Ohio State
team, is swimming unattached
because the Big Ten does not
enter it's teams except in Olym-
pic years. Marshall. an Austral-
ian, and Moore are swimming
for the New Haven Swim Club.
There will be six events to-
morrow and six more Sunday.