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Heads Pledge
Support of Governors
Pasture Program
The heads of six agricultural agencies in Virginia this week lined up to support Governor Battle’s pasture program.
Pledging the cooperation of their organizations were: Charles Jordan, chairman of the Production Marketing Administration; Frank B. Cales, State supervisor of vocation^} agriculture; R. O. Deland, State director of Farmers iHome- Administration, #11 in Richmond; S, W. Bondurant, State soil conservationist; Dr. H. N. Young, director of the Experiment Station; and L. B. Dietrick, director of the Extension Service, all in Blacksburg.
The pasture program was announced early last week, as was the appointment of Dr. Walter S. Newman, president of VPI, as chairman of a State committee to put the program into effect. -
Dr. Young pointed to research underway which is de^ignedtohnd improved pasture systems for Virginia. Outstanding, he said, is that being conducted at the Middleburg branch of the VPI Agricultural Experiment Station.
Director Dietrick immediately briefed his staff of county agents on the program, telling them that the Governor’s organizational plan provides for a county pacture committee in every county. The agents were asked to call a meeting of county leaders to make plans for county programs to be put into effect after a meeting of the State committee. In Richmond, Governor Battle said members of the State committee would be appointed within the next few days.
Bondurant pointed out that grassland farming has long been “a vital part of soil conservation” and that he is ‘'heartily in favor” of the program.
The other officials were likewise enthusiastic about the program, pointing to it as a sound basis for an improved agriculture in Virginia.
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