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Show COUNTY DRY FARMS LIE ON FOOTHILLS OF OQUIRRH RANGE Bingham district comes close to being a 100 per cent industrial indus-trial area, yet bordering it, along the foothills extending from Herriman to Magna, lie the 200 dry farms of Salt Lake county. The dry farm lands total about 20,000 acres, each section cropped every other year. On alternate years the land is summer fallowed. fallow-ed. V. L. Martineau, Salt Lake county agricultural agent, when asked if the plantings on dry farm lands had not recently increased, in-creased, told a reporter for the Bingham Bulletin that the government gov-ernment triple A program, which reduced wheat acreage about 30 per cent, has not been in effect the past two years, with the result re-sult that there has been an approximate ap-proximate increase in wheat acreage of about 30 per cent. Better prices for -wheat have encouraged en-couraged the farming of practically prac-tically all Salt Lake county's dry farm area. A weed fire in the foothills near Copperton Friday noon threatened the wheat crops now ready for harvest. The flames were under control by 9pm, according to the report of Captain Cap-tain Frank Jones of the Salt Lake county fire department. Only . appreciable damage was 'to a ' field highest in the hills about 2000 jcres of brush were burned before crews of fire fighters from Camp Kearns, the i county fire department and Utah Copper company had the blaze under control. Fire again broke out over Barney and Harker canyons can-yons but was brought under control con-trol by Camp Kearns soldiers and volunteers. |