RECORD YIELD OF MAIZE
COLUMBIA, (South Carolina). Negro farmers in the United States South are joining in the drive for increased maize yields in that region, leaders of state agricultural extension services report. Five-eighths of America’s 16.000,000 negroes live in the south with heaviest concentrations in rural areas. Since 1935.,maize yields have doubled ii; several southern states, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. For example, Alabama’s yield has risen from 13 bushels an acre to 30; Arkansas’s from 12 to 29.5; and South Carolina’s from 12.5 to 28. Among winners in the recent South Carolina State Corn Contest here was Mr Leandres Griffin, a Negro farmer of Spartanburg County, who grew a yield of 104.5 bushels per acre.— (U. 5.1.5.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27961, 7 May 1956, Page 10
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