Show farm earm news pooling agreement savis land although many soil and water conservation problems may be solved on individual barnis there are sonio some which affect a number of farmers and must le be dealt with cooperatively according to J vern hopkin chairman of the utah state PAIA committee such problems are handled on a commodity basis A group of farmers enter into an agreement under the agricultural conservation program and each uses the funds available to carry out hla his share of the project under the current program each farmers share of the program assistance Is limited to SOO As an all example of the effective use of pooling agreement the chairman cites a project carried out in utah county A group of farmers who own tracts of meadow land near utah lake were troubled with too much water this meadow land was cohered coerced with water in late fall and early spring resulting la in the loss of a lot of good teed feed the farmers set up a pooling agreement with the utah county agricultural conservation committee and constructed a drain which carries the water vater into utah lake As a result between 1000 and 1200 acres of land is now free of surface water the meadows are now pastured in early spring and late tall fall and during the summer they are cut tor for hay farmers of plute county with coni community problems of this kind should talk them over with their community of county triple A committee USDA sponsors home survey Fari farmerr nera should have a more continued on last page P M A farm news continued from page onea one exact idea of 0 what and how much food city consumers will use when results of a national sur vey of home food consumption become available the study should also prove useful in developing ve programs to expand ta the ae consumption and improve the nutrition of consumers As pue one of the research projects being carried carried out under the federal research and marketing margetin Mark etin g act the survey is being started start fid by the department of agriculture in 70 cities throughout the country salt lake city has been selected as one of the cities in which a cross section of families will be visited this Is the first survey 0 on n a nationwide scale since 1942 an ana it will show what has happened to the diets of city families in |