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Show FERTILITY BANK PLAN STUDIED The proposed conservation acreage acre-age reserve or "fertility bank" I program whereby the federal gov- ernment would lease land from farmers hot needed in the production produc-tion of crops, was reviewed and approved as a major plank in its program for 1955-56 by the Utah Farmers Union board of directors in a meeting this week. The Farmers Union directors instructed in-structed its president, Jesse S. Tuttle of Castle Dale to write all major farm organizations in Utah urging them to study the program and to cooperate with Farmers Union in an educational program to familiarize all farmers in Utah with the program to the end of getting implementing legislation legis-lation passed at the next session of congress. In commenting on the discussion of the conservation acreage reserve re-serve program, Tuttle emphasized the Farmers Union sponsored bills were introduced in the house of representatives early last spring by Representative H. Carl Andersen Ander-sen of Tyler, Minnesota, and in the senate by Senator Hubert Humphry of Minnesota to accomplish accom-plish this purpose. He said in June, National Farmers Union president, James G. Patton testified before the senate agriculture committee in behalf of the legislation. "We are delighted toJearn from recent news records that while |