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For more information, please contact [email protected]. rsday. sept ILE P!1 Letter w IN(JETON Week Oct First Weekly Newspaper Section Two in Kentucky to be Granted Uncle juju le hird ammail - Associated Press Membership ree.a, vitt Four Pages ook44.i EAD_E fl Kentucky, Thursday, September 12, 1940 No. 11 fl e today ZIW Princeton, ew Iy lo oved ones, Me", Kentucky Needs More Cover Crops 4Y" elderly Urges More Newest Genius, 8 Years Old tten lion, swot f Percent of cultivated crop thee* are acreage seeded Cover to winter cover crops Ignorant Iplents of the ter Makes Adults Look s t purled. The sow On 1939 ev.motes By Russell Landstrom 12. and the For Ky. Associated Press Feature Servica ps CD alio!, are e 0 to 33 CHICAGO—A boy just 8 years es.s CZI 34 to s of $35,000,000 66 old, with slicked-down hair, mis- nually in Soil Fer- Ell 67 to 100 chief in his eyes, and a facile is radio's newest oracle. When Mrs. O. 0 y Reason for tongue, urham, N. He's Gerald Darrow. He hat appeared' to 'se on Erosion astounds adults with the extent e -- of his knowledge about every- found that it aPPed around a ugh a lot of complicated thing from Greek mythology ti h agricultual experts have the habits of rare fish. His father, Joseph A. Darrow, Roy Roberts, sells that it takes Mother an industrial efficiency man, store in Bayard, to pro- hundreds of years gives him unks in helps teach him and payment soil from parent d Inch of practice quizzes. An aunt, Miss then sells them but almost any Kentucky 4..,C WO,+AL AD. ,,,,, A.• Elizabeth Darrow, has helped can figure out that hard As shown by the map above, a considerable portion of Kentucky's cultivated farm land is left bare during rear the boy since the death of the winter, Kentucky farmers participating rains will carry off more subject to destructive erosion and leaching. It is estimated that his mother when he was 4 in the AAA farm program seeded 760,000 acres of cover crops in the fall of 1939. The state AAA committee hat in one year. months old. points out that farmers can prevent • large part of the annual loss of soil fertility by further increasing prove this to his satisfac- Likes their aereage of protective winter cover crops. He Turtles the farmer has to do is Boy Scout work is credited with tural Adjustment leave the land bare in Winter. Of QuaJ around his own or near- Administration out the State. Extension service teaching Gerald bird and animal aided by the this acreage, or 78 per for a field that has been Extension Service, 2,400,000 agronomists gave talks on cover lore. From encyclopedias comes has launched a drive to induce cent are left unprotected through p for a row crop—such as crops and Triple-A field men and knowledge of myths anti legends. farmers to use the winter. , corn or cotton—for a few protective winter But no one can explain Gerald's cover crops. nurse crops for grasses and le- State AAA Committeemen dis- and left bare to the ele- power of virtually total recall, his ing soil, cover crops benefit the cussed the 1941 Agricultural Con- during winters. If the William C. Johnstone, agrono- intuition, his logic, his self-com- farmer in other ways, the agro- servation Program with county field is level he will no- my field agent, describes a cover mand. nomist states, All such crops, he soil is thin and poor, and crop as a crop grown during fall andn community committeemen. "With all his interest in scien- says, when properly handled, .• • a hill field he will notice and winter to provide a pro- tific things, he is just a boy, furnish fall pasture which often g gullies and red clay tective covering to land which through and through", says his may be used throughout the Stassen Won't Send otherwise would be bare. Includ- father. winter. Self to I IS bad enough, but, take ed in this category are wheat, Senate As for the boy, he'll talk any the agronomists of the rye, ryegrass, barley, vetch, win- "One of the principal uses of time about his favorite topics. ST. PAUL, Minn., (IP)—Harold ity of Kentucky Extension ter oats and crimson clover. winter-grain cover crops is as He'll confide that he sings while e, there is even a sadder RePorts compiled by John- nurse crops for gasses and le- Stassen, Governor of Minnesota, he reads, is fond of his two pet than meets the eye. Be- stone's estimate, more than 1,- gume in changing a field from In an interview shortly before he turtles and would like to visit the the loss of topsoil, what is 000,000 acres of Kentucky land cultivated to sod crops. In this left for Rushville. Ind., for a Re- Galapagos islands. also will show case, the grasses, except, perhaps He acknowledges that one of distresses his pound the field have been so badly eroded as to publican conference, eliminated Invited to speak to his fellow- isfies him but ,us loss of plant food render them unfit for farming, orchard grass, should be sowed his major ambitions was to fall was especially sur- himself as a possible successor to pupils about them. Distracted teacher. She . leaching. Loss of nitro- and another 1,000.000 are reach- in the Fall, on the cover crop, out of his double-decker bunk, the au- prised and battled when she ex- pound lone, one of the most ex- Fail- and the legumes in the early United States Senator Ernest and that he can identify 500 mildly by a commotion in ing the same state rapidly. amined one of his last year's e foods, will be 25 use cover Spring." the agronomist said. Lundeen of Minnesota, who WRS birds. dience, he paused and warned, plant ure of Kentuckians to papers, darkened with an array pound what it would have been if he point,s out, has been To enlist cooperation of farm- airplane crash. "I Gerald will enter third grade noise doesn't stop there crops, killed in an "If that of curious capitals. The O's wore soil de- ers in the Triple-A cover crop in the fall. He's not an enthusiast pound I has been protected. the major factor in this will not resign and take the posi- won't be any more lecture." He hats, the U's and A's had pre- an effort to prevent such struction. program, inform them of aid the for formal schooling but his life tion myself," he declared. "I will was not disturbed again. posterous beards, and attached to soil fertility—which, it by John- government will provide, and to at school has not been without Reports cmopiled of to the I's were fantastic arms. pound the 1941 program chang- not appoint anyone with the un- its rewards. Stymied by the merchants .t ed, takes $35.000,000 an- stone show that 3,100,000 acres explain arithmetic leaves him meetings step acknowl- penmanship, Gerald prints in a And out o: the pockets of of land in this State normally es, a series of district derstanding they are to Because he was an elfish fashion that sat- pretty cold. that recently, have been held:through- years." , eged authority on birds, he ,was wayward, lb. ky farmers—the Agricul- used for cultivation of crops aside for me in two bag 2-lb lo :32 oz. jar LAST THREE DAYS 2FRP2 REMODELING SALE - Then It's Over! 1. 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