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Show s-suppiy. using up as quicki, possible the minerals elenZ f plant growth may often seem provide the greatest short?-to gain to the individual farmer 6 As the chairman express,, u "under our form of gover'-do gover'-do not require farmers to v , terraces, seed grasses and leEnTf d or plant trees, but we have fn s a way to get those thine, a through the ACP. It is eanft a means of protecting the interest of each of us and of future erations who will depend on cm limited land for food and fiber MAC Program Head Makes Comments According to J. Earl Smith, Chairman of the Utah County Production and Marketing Administration Ad-ministration Committee, the Agricultural Agri-cultural Conservation Program was established to assure continued production from our land and not as a means of distributing funds to farmers. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the ability of our land to produce the food and fiber needed by our present population of 150 million people and by possibly pos-sibly double that' number within the life span of people now living. As the chairman sees it, the protection of our freedom from poverty and want, which would follow a wasting of our soil and water resources, is basic to the preservation of all our other freedoms. free-doms. The program is necessary, he explains, because often it does not appear to the farmer's direct advantage to do the things which will safeguard the future food |