Record For Shenandoah

Record For Shenandoah

National Park, October 19

Shenandoah National Park travel on Sunday* October 19, broke all records in the history of the Park. There were 38,822 visitors during this single da}', and a total of 10,475 cars. The autumn foliage was at the peak of its color in most of the Park and the weather was especially good, which accounted for this record in travel

The travel on October 19 exceeded the previous record of travel to the Park which on August 3i, 1941, when there were 35,456 visitors.

Park Officials reported that no motor vehicle accidents occurred during the day.

There were 15,080 visitors who entered by the north entrance station at Front Royal, 8,025 at the south entrance on Route 211, and 6,224 at the entrance on Route 250 near Waynesboro. The north entrance at Swift Run had 4,106 visitors, trailed by 3,228 at north Panorama and 2,159 at the south Swift Run entrance. ’

Pasture Top-Dressing?

You’re Right. It Pays.

Scientific facts to back up the farmer who top-dresses his permanent pastures properly are cited hy Dr, H. L. Dunton, head of the VPI agronomy department.

For instance—at the Charlotte branch of the VPI Agricultural Experiment Station, a, well-fertilized ladino clover-orchard grass pasture produced six times as much forage as an unfertilized area over a fouryear period. The fertilized pasture yield nearly three tons yearly of high-quality ladino clover-orchard» grass forage, in which there were practically no weeds. The unfertilized area gave about one-half ton per acre of a poor quality feed, mostly weeds. This experiment was conducted on a Cecil soil. At the Orange branch, on a productive red soil, properly top*dressed pastures yielded over a ton per acre more of ladino and fescue than did poorly fertilized areas. At the end of two years, there is a much better stand of clover in the well fertilized pasture than in the poorly fertilised one.' v ' • •“ ■ '.