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PRODUCTION tested rams will be offered for the first time to Virginia sheepmen at the Shenandoah Valley Research Station at Steeles Tavern on June 23rd. Sixty-nine rams of four breeds, from twenty-five “flocks are- in thtf feeding test. Like bulb, rams either have, or don’t have, .'the ability to sire rapid growing lambs. No need to comment on which character is the money maker.
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Present Rappahannock corn acreage is about a fourth of that devoted to this crop fifty years ago. Yields have about doubled during a like period. Both are results of wise planning.
The next fifty years of farming will demand more wise planning at a more rapid rate for even greater efficiency.
Some revolutionary methods of corn production have been adopted
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