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Show WALLACE SEES EROSIONTHREAT Loving with Utahna a warning that erosion, unless checked, will dot th. state with "ghost cities," Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace aped through Idaho Weil- nesday on a continuation of his western tour. The secretary and his party, meanwhile, were studying Intently a series of recommendations given them by farm leaders from seven states at a conference in the Hotel Utabjiere Tuesday. Plan Criticised The meeting was called so state conservation committees and officials offi-cials of farmer organizations might present suggestions for the 1938 federal conservation program. Principal criticism from the conferees con-ferees was that the proposed benefit bene-fit payments would reward the farmer who has been misusing his land more than the man who has been observing good soil practices for years. H. R. Tolley, AAA administrator, and Geo rue E. Farrell, western division director of the AAA, who are traveling with Secretary Wallace, Wal-lace, explained, however, the Intent of the soil conservation act Is to conserve soil fertility, not primarily to reward farmers. Delegates to Tuesday's meeting also protested methods of computing comput-ing maximum benefit payments which... armercan earn place a higher premium on soil depleting than on soil conserving crops. It Is expected that final plans for the 1938 program will be announced an-nounced In the early falL Sees Ghost CI tire' "Each year I visit Utah I am struck with the rapidity with which farms and ranches, by a process of overgraiing and overplowing, have lost their fertility," Secretary Wallace Wal-lace told Rotary club members Tuesday. "Ranches that formerly supported support-ed 300 head of cattle are now unable to support 30. "If this tendency continues there will be only a certain time until even part of Salt Lake City Is a ghost town." Uniting everyone farmers, business busi-ness men and laborers in a program pro-gram to check inroads of soli erosion ero-sion is being planned, the cabinet member disclosed. Secretary Wallace and accompanying accom-panying officials left the city at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday. The secretary was principal speaker at the annual picnio of the Dairymen's Cooperative Coopera-tive creamery, Caldwell, Idaho, Wednesday. |