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Show Officials Decry Waste of Bear River Water A vi'i'om'.m'iuUUion that, n water lai'iUlii's survey bt made on the Green river, near tireen River citv, was present.ed to t.he board bv J. How.u'd M;un',han, B.A.E. representative lor water facilities. He stressed the faet that in this limited area intensive farming is cu'iied an and Uiat water is the i Hums. This phase deals with tftj broad econoinl;- aspects nf a"n-enl'.urc a"n-enl'.urc after tlie war and v .'.1 be centered a round the chan-;j over from Jart'o-.srab a;tavsc pr -Uuc-lion to a post-wnr prcrrn:::, Secretary of Agriculture Wlrkard has set up regions to facilitate the work in Washington, a. C. Mr. Calkins explained. It is planned plan-ned to give the county and state planning boards prominent parts in , post-war program, he said. A review of the proposed iy;to-matlon iy;to-matlon projects and those under way in Utah was given by E. G. Nielsen o.' the United States bureau bur-eau of reclamation. He named Deer Creek, Duchesne tunnel and Newton reservoir as the projects under construction and sighted the work on the Bear River report, although delayed by various groups, will soon be made. "Approximately "Ap-proximately one find one-fourth million acre feet of water is going go-ing to waste each year in Salt Lake via the Bear River". Mr Nielsen said. faetory limiting expansion. The j,, melon crop in this area is of outstanding significance. The : board adopted the recommenda- tion and instructed that the sur- y" vcy be made in order that in- ; formation as to the project's prac- J ticability might be secured for f, further action. The afternoon session opened V with a report by A. Golden Kil- bum of Logan, executive assistant, v Utah AAA, on the status of the statewide farm-to-farm canvasi when was carried on during No- v vember as a part of the United & States department of agriculture's farm defense program. jj Mr. Kilburn in his report stated that 19,846 farmers of the state y out of an estimated possible 23,- 761 have pledged support of the 1 program. Of this number all but jj 578, or approximately 97 percent, j also indicated intentions to par- ? ticipate In the ,1942 AAA farm J program. Following the announcement of i production goals for the state at C a regional conference held in Salt j Lake City in September, a state food defense conference in Oc- tober and a series of county edu- . cational meetings, the "Food for i Freedom" program was carried to 1 j the individual farmers in the j state in this farm-to-farm can- vass. November 29 was set as the . i deadline for completion of the i ' canva,. J While the sign-up is now com- 'i plete in practically all counties, j there are a few farmers who have . not as yet been contacted and a J five-day grace period has been 1 granted to complete the canvass, Mr. Kidburn said. j Analyzing preliminary reports j from some of the counties he said j that they indicated a decrease in j . acreages in some of the canning crops while production goals call j for an increase. County reports indicate there will be a 100 percent per-cent increase in the acreage of ', home gardens. . A 50 percent increase in the ; marketing of hogs in 1942 was i indicated. But it was pointed out ' that while production goals called ; for a decrease in marketing of ; hogs in 1942, the increase in the number of brood sows desired ; would be met and the increase in marketings would be a natural . result of keeping over more gilts and brood sows. (Production goals for milk will be met these reports indicate and , it is probable that if individual pledges of farmers are carried out the 13 percent increase asked will be boosted to 25 percent. A willingness to seed within wheat allotments under the AAA program was shown by county reports. re-ports. But a considerable amount of the land taken out of wheat will be used to grow barley. Mr. Kilburn praised the efforts of county and community committees commit-tees for "the wholehearted support and untiring efforts" in making the farm-to-farm canvass. "But the big job is ahead we must now produce- and met the goals set. That's our job, now." he concluded. con-cluded. Attention was called in sonl of the reports to the problem lomo-ing lomo-ing up in the farm defense program pro-gram as a result of increased defense de-fense industries. Farmers with small holdings are renting their land, leaving it for their families to till, or are abandoning it outright out-right to obtain employment in these industries. I Hugh Calkins, regional conser vationist for the soil conservation service, then presented a three-point three-point program for meeting postwar post-war conditions in agriculture: (1) Conservation and development of physical resources which includes erosion and flood control, water conservation, improved forest practices, prac-tices, improved grazing practices and development of small irrigation irriga-tion projects. (2) Rural facilities and services, including rural electrification rural housing, hospitalization, cooperative coopera-tive marketing and procesing, rural rur-al education, nutrition and cultur- i al facilities. (3) Agricultural-Industrial rela- |