Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-02 | Page 5 | Farm Board to Study Forest, Land Problems

fARM BOARD J TO STUDY fn FORST 4 lAND P PROBLEMS PROBLEMS' HoldS Holding Hold Hold- Field Fjeld Regarded as as' S i ing g K Key y V to A Agricultural t. t I S Difficulties tural t I V By RAYMOND ND Z HENLE j Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON ASHINGTON N Aug g. g 2 As' As As As' s 's on J a as some othe pr pressing tasks 8 h have ve been Ien dl disposed posed the federal eder l t farm rm board boar Inte intends intend's ds to Inquire carefully I Into lo the of ot land Jand utilization condemnation and reforestation ref This field of I ls Is regarded b by bythe lh the b ard its as' as ho holding an Important key to the the Uon ot agricultures agriculture's difficulties but j what Just l' l wh will result I from Irom rpm its Its' Inquiry n h d y be t fore re- re 1 cast T LL UN UNSETTLED ETT ED V V The b board ardA ren realizes that despite diligent pt study tudy already given by e ex exerts experts ex- ex erts the Uia questions involved are still unsettled A great many of ot the 8 le ot of the department of ot agriculture upon whose knowledge the th board expected Is-expected t to lean Jean beU be- be U j however r that the problem will resol aelise itself Into DJ aplan Ian for d growing growIng- of certain tain C crops P on on the soils solis to to them and the setting aside e ot the poorer acreage for the tho thelnore more more easily adapt adapt- ble branches h s of ot farming and horticulture horti horti- culture 1 V t S Almost any program m the board might a adopt d pt if it reaches any d de- de cislon at all wilt will require nian many years year's to put into effect The Tho angle of the problem most susceptible t to to- nera 1 is Js held to be be that o ot justice to farmers whose lands woUld o ld bb ba b sele selected t ted d for n new w and andson sometimes son e lm s appa apparently cn lr J lei s J 01 able crops This proposition alone is Iz regarded re-gard d as 53 making fit IL certain that a final l solution some sometime some tI time c. c s since rico education Is ved to be beth Ith he best way of ot 4 R Reclamation an and irrigation projects are likely to to- tobe be affected by by- bythe the boards board's study Many r rc re- re f- f officials of ot the ture department are re ready dy to reeo rec- rec o n of ot all aU further V un- un of ot this kind Whether the b board ald w would ula be willing to ta go this far Is qUest but some recommendation on this aspect ot of the general genera situation Is la considered likely J JT ft REFORESTATION F REST TIO CONSIDERED V One Important phase of ot the stud study will concern Itself with tion At present government figurea figures fig fig- urea ures show a small decline in the the- use of ot wood products s. but two or l reo years cara ag ago the States LV was using wood at at a rate irate which was ris threatening the f forest rest Many Ian students students' of the farm pr problem l have na advocated id turning the Je less s desirable l land Into new forests s specifically charged tho board with the tho Job o of inquiring into this S subject of Ot perhaps a 5 1 more popular na na- na- na ture however will be the boards board's study of df the effects effects' of t scientific scientific- production ro uc methods m nna machinery hl ery and crop and n animal hygiene on pro- pro The rhe highly technical study of birth and death rates to determine determine deter deter- mine tho ilo problematical Ucal trend trend of ot population during S tho the next halt half century at so engage the board In Inan an effort to make consumption n