Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-04-11 | Page 3 | A A A Favors Back to Grass

A A A FAVORS BACK TO GRASS Sod Is Is' Shock Absorber for Adjustment Program Says Joseph Cox CX WASHINGTON P P What are farmers going to do with the more than acres an area larger than Illinois withdrawn from crop production this year Back to grass Is the answer of the agriculture department A picture of the he new national plan for agriculture slowly evolving at the department ml might ht be drawn from remarks of oC agricultural officials and andt It t might be titled Pastoral America with a pleasanter farm life more leisure lei id- sure less drudgery and lower ins ing ng costs pictured as its chief Joseph F. F Cox chief of the replacement replacement replace replace- ment crops section of the A A A says that hat the only logical adjustment in farm arm production is to shift to grass if f the high geared commercial farming farm farm- ing ng machine is to be slowed down without a jar Sod is a shock absorber that will vill iU cushion the adjustment program he says While th the replacement crops section sec see tion is investigating plants producing drugs insecticides oils perfumes fibers ibers and other products in lii an effort to o find new crops for the abandoned acreage Cox believes not more than acres will be used in that W way vay lY in the next few years jears Chester Davis farm administrator has pointed out that sowing more gr grass rass is a return from intensive commercial com corn mercial farming to a less intensive c system to the days before the war when farmers had not yet plowed up their heir blue grass pastures and meadows meadows mead mead- to plant corn and wheat