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Show k ' On Utah County Farms With County Extension Agent . & ' ' " " THE BEGINNING OF CONSERVATION "When the great program of conservation was started at the beginning of this century, watershed water-shed protection and perpetuation of forests were the chief objects," said Dr. H. L. Shantz, chief of the division of wildlife management manage-ment of the forest service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, recently. re-cently. "As we look back we realized how tremendously significant signif-icant was this movement. It would take a writer with the imagination im-agination of Danta to picture to us what might have been the condition con-dition of our western mountains and valleys had not something of this sort been done. Barren mountain moun-tain slopes, delivering almost 100 per cent of a heavy rain to funnel-like canyons, carrying boulders bould-ers and debris, covering fertile lands and filling reservoirs, wreck not only the mountain sides and canyons, but destroy the valleys as well. "Even today, where grazing has been heavy or where repeated fires have destroyed the vegetation, near the bed of dry arroyos which s. may in an hour become destructive torrents of water, mud, and rock, man lives in constant peril of property prop-erty and life." CONSUMPTION OF V.OOL "For fifteen years following the war, there was a definite downward trend in wool consumption," consump-tion," says an editorial in the New York Journal of Commerce (Nov. 16)... "Last year, there was a sharp reversal in trend. In the United States particularly there was a big increase in consumption S . . . .Increased wool consumpcion is reported from Great Britain and the continent of Europe. . .Improving .Im-proving economic conditions and the development of lighter fabrics suitable to modern conditions made it likely that the trend of wool consumption has now been reversed. It is true that more severe winters during the last few year have helped wool demand and that this factor cannot be counted I upon regularly. But as long as manufacturers continue to display ; ingenuity in meeting popular demand de-mand and in evolving new low-wool low-wool combined with spn rayon and other fibers, they should be able to make further sales gains even if the weather is less pro-pituous." pro-pituous." from U. S. D. A.'s "Daily Digest." XMAS TRADE Predictions that Christmas trade this year will break all volume records in American history were confirmed by a nation-wide survey made public yesterday by J. R. Ridgway, president of Investors Syndicate, Minneapolis. "Christmas "Christ-mas shoppers," he said, "will spend more than $3,970,000,000. . ." (Press.) FILED AT CAPITAL ONION AGREEMENT A marketing agreement for handlers of onions grown in the State of Utah has been tentatively tentative-ly approved, and is being sent to the industry for signature, while growers will be requested to indicate indi-cate whether they favor the issuance issu-ance of an order by the Secretary of Agriculture, H. A. Wallace, which would embody the provisions provi-sions of the agreement. The program would be administered admin-istered by a control board of seven members, representative of growers grow-ers and 'handlers. Provisions in the j agreement would enable the con- trol board to cooperate with the ; Secretary of Agriculture in sur- j plus removal programs for onions, and with control boards with handlers of onions operating under any other marketing agreement 1 programs. |