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Show ; PLAN TnSisr UTAH WHHT YIELD One Million Bushels Over Normal Next Year Is the Mark Fixed. " Ith.-rt-aso TJlah'rt wln'ut yiel! by one million but licks, " whh the slutfan adojit-o.d adojit-o.d at a special confer-rune of agricultural agricul-tural oxihtIh rallftil tnitliftr at Lo;ui v Pri-hidtiiit I'ctcr.sou of tlio Utah Agricultural (tollco Thursday to lay plans to lirinj; about the incrcaso in i whoat yinbl aslo.l by the government of thin staff1. The United .States ile-part ile-part merit of ancu It Lire, in its campaign cam-paign for a billion ImshclH of wheat in HUM, has askid I'tali to ini-reRun its acreage and yield at least '2 per rent. This will mean that an increase of at least ;it,()'M) acres must be secured in ('tali. This increa-e is looked for in the tall wheat primarily. Tt was the opinion of the eonference that the increase in wheat production must bo inadft without unbalancing the present agricultural system in an appreciable ap-preciable degree. To do this it was recommended that wherever possiblo better farming methods bo employed, to bring up the yield per acre. The in-, crease in acreage, may be met by bringing bring-ing under cultivation new lands, by using wheat fts a cover crop where new fields are being planted to alfalfa, and bv the use of fallow lands where advisable. ad-visable. It. was pointed out, however, that, the farmers must not forget that big yields of grain must bo secured for some years to come. It is extremely unwise to use land for next year's crop that should lie fallow to produce a crop in 10l:i. I'irector of Kxtens'ion John T. Caine, lit, who returned from the regional conference called by the government I to lay plans for a greater wheat and rye yield in the western states, held lit .Spokane, in time to attend the I'tah conference, reported that the world wheat shortage was extremely serious. It developed at the Spokane conference that Europe would need .-1(11.1,(100,000 bushels of wheat in 3917-IS 3917-IS from the United States and Canada. This country supplied Europe with but 1 7.",000, 000 bushels last year. With an expected yield this year of but 600,-000,000 600,-000,000 bushels, she 'will be asked to sumdy Europe with the larger part, of a hall billion bushels. If early frosts should injure the excellent corn crop of this country, an event by no means unlikely, the situation would indeed be terious, said Professor Caine. Last winter win-ter and spring was bad for wheat throughout Utah and the northwest, and not more than three-fifths of the expected wheat crop was harvested. There is sufficient seed to provide for this great wheat and rye increase, reported Professor Caine, and the labor la-bor situation is not serious yet. Wages are high, showing a shortage of labor, but the northwest has not yet suffered suf-fered from this condition. The Utah svsteni of financing farmers farm-ers in need of money to secure seed was highly commended by the Spokane conference, said Professor Caine. It provides that money be supplied farmers farm-ers in need of financial aid on thej; promissory notes by the state council of defense. This money is forwarded by bankers, who are guaranteed payment pay-ment by the state legislature. A seed committee for Utah was appointed at Spokane as follows: Pirector John T. Caine, 11 T, chairman; Director F. S. Harris of the experiment station of the Utah Agricultural college, Isaac Grace of Nephi, W. S. Hansen of Col-linston Col-linston and M. Justin of the bureau of crop estimates. United States department, depart-ment, of agriculture. The extension division of the Utah Agricultural college will have direct 1 supervision of the propaganda for the I increased production of wheat and rve ! in this state. Complete plans and ln- i struetiouB will be drawn up and placed f before the f armors of Utah by means j of the press, through the county agents j and farm bureaus, Dy special lecturers, bv demonstrations and bv letters. |