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Show ' Farmers and Home Makers of S. L County Assemble At Mass Meeting to Hear How to Save Their Land WEST JORDAN rvmtn and horn makers of Salt Lake county , gathered la a mass meeting at the Wast Jordan junior high school Wednesday ta hear bow to aave their land. Convening at 10 a. m, the meet- i Ing wsa praaldad ovar by Joseph E. Blaks of Bennion, chairman of tha general committee. Mr. Blake read his report as chairman of tha land use subcommittee. Tha report set the land area total in Salt Lake county at 43, MO acres, and divided It Into six classes, three of them being arable and three non-arable. non-arable. j "Fertility of farm lands is not being maintained. However, practically practi-cally all farm manure la well utilised, and about 6000 hundred-pound hundred-pound bags of acid super phosphate fertiliser are added to the land each year," Mr. Blake said. Ha said tha committee Is giving serious consideration to a "problem area" in the county which parallels the foothills of the Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains from. Davis county to Utah county. He pointed oat these areas are subject to serious erosion and floods which deposit silt and debris en highways and damage canals and lands. At an afternoon sees to a, reports ware to be given by Albert Olson ol West Jordan, chairman of the livestock live-stock committee; Lawrence T. Dahl, Weat Jordan, crop and weed control; con-trol; Jamas H. Jensen of West Jordan, Jor-dan, correlation of state and national na-tional programs; Chester L. Belle of Magna, Irrigation: Emit Feulner of Hunter, farm and industrial cooperation; coop-eration; Mrs. Edna G. Hogan of West Jordan, rural health: Rodney S. Nyroan of Salt Lake City, farm and home finance, and C Perry Rockwood ef Granger, opportunity for youth. |