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Show 1 On Utah County Farms jj With The Extension Agent ! as large an amount of money at one time as some other farmers may have, but his Iwo payments per month make it possible for him to meet his current bills and keep the family going, Professor Caine points out. Prospects for the next few months are for stable prices that should be higher than the last few months. Importations of butter but-ter have practically stopped and the price of butter in London has increased eight to ten cents a pound, which will help check further fur-ther importaition of this product. All dairy feeds are more plentiful plen-tiful and much cheaper this year than in 1034. With the increase in the price of fat the dairymen should make back some of their losses suffered in the past months. One problem that needs attention atten-tion of the Utah dairyman, according ac-cording to Professor Caine, is the shipment of cows to California and the importation of cows from the northwest and the middlewest. "In many of the old countries regular cattle markets are maintained main-tained where farmers do their buying and selling." he observes. "Couldn't the local farm bureau or some other association start a cattle market as one of its .projects .proj-ects and make it possible for buyers buy-ers and sellers in Utah to get to- gelher at some central place on a ()ks-ho; contract kok 2 vkaks now is bking l'UHE'AICKD Wuik been started on the ctjnlnict i'or the new two-year adjustment ad-justment program for corn and hKs following' conferences in Washington of producers, state jiencuUural specialists, and Agricultural Agri-cultural Adjustment admin istra-t,im istra-t,im officials on fundamental dentils de-ntils of the new program, according accord-ing to Director William Peterson ,,i the Utah State Agricultural collide. Since a major adjustment problem prob-lem is to prevent an excessive product ion of hogs in 1937, a contract con-tract of more than one year's duration dur-ation is necessary, it was pointed i,ut at the Washington conference. A two-year . contract, it was thought, would be welcomed by fiirmers in order that they might plan their farming operations more than one year in advance. The main objective of the new program will be to maintain . a balance between the production and consumption of corn and hogs during the next two years. To acumplish this objective, it wiil be necessary to (1) prevent an excessive production of corn in V.i'AH and 1037, (2) allow an increase in-crease in next year's pig crop that would be at least as great as it j.s estimated would take place were no adjustment program in effect, and '3) prevent an e:ces-rive e:ces-rive increase in the 1037 pig crop. The adjustment administration has recommended that corn production pro-duction next year be limited to 95 million acres, or about 10 million fewer than would be likely tp be harvested without adjustment. This would require an aggregate adjustment of approximately 20 percent on the part of all con- j tract signers. Depending upon the ! 1936 corn crop and the demand ! expected next fall for the 1937 i crop, a maximum corn reduction of 25 per cent has been proposed j for 1937. j Proposed hog adjustments are calculated to provide for a 30 per cent increase in federal inspected slaughter in 1930-37 above the slaughter expected in the present marketing year which began October Oc-tober 1, 1935. It is believed that a permitted hog production equal to 100 per cent of the base will allow for the desired increase in hog numbers next year. The new corn-hog contract will require that an area at least equal to the number of acres held out of corn be added to the usual area of the farm devoted to soil-improvement and erosion-preventing uses. This year more than 2100 farmers farm-ers in Utah signed contracts with the AAA to control corn-hog production pro-duction and the recent vote favored fav-ored a continuation of the program pro-gram in the state, Director Peterson Peter-son pointed out. DAIKYMAX SEftS BETTKR I'UICKS FOR INDUSTRY There is no type of farming that effects as many persons as dairying dairy-ing and there is no farming operation oper-ation that will bring in as much money over a long period of years i as a good herd of dairy cows, is the opinion of Professor George B. Caine, head of the USAC dairy department. The dairy farmer does not have |