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eommerically. weie named in i.iii.s m a percentage of the 19,53 acreage. They ar.: spring snap beans, on which a 5 per cent acreage increase is asked: beets, where 10 per cent more acreage is .asked spring cabbage, .same acreage; and spinach, where 5 per celil acreage decrease is l rroiumended. Corn'-was laird hit by the 1053 drought, and Virginias produc tion dropped sharply. At the be ginning of the year. State farm ers were asked to produce 45. 570,000 bushels, or y per cent more than in 1951. The actual imp of 31,614.000 bushels, ac cording to BAE's December esti mates. is far short ot the goal. Corn Yield In Tidewater Virginia, where corn is an important commercial crop. Mr. Jordan said that yields can be improved somewhat under normal growing conditions. Also, he said that more acreage can be put into corn where the labor or mechanical handling facilities < \ist. In the remainder of the State, where there is somewhat a scarcity of farm labor, he rec ommended that farmers concen trate on increasing corn yields lather than acreage. Mr. Jordan pointed out that tlie L. S. Department of Agricul tures Advisory Committee on Goals har set- Virginia's 1953 cot
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