Show CROP Profess orR E vaughn of the university of wisconsin in a recent lecture before the experiment station stana of the utah agricultural college said that crop rotation was tho the first essential to the canning pea industry of his state halt half the canned basof the united states are produced in Wis wisconsin along alone with such an enormous pea acreage it Is but fia natural tural that some serious diseases of the pea plant should develop those these diseases would entirely destroy the industry it if a systematic rotation were not practiced it has taken the sugar beet nematode to convince some of our utah farmers that beets should not mot be grown continuously on the same land must we pay the same price to learn to rotate alfalfa that crol cro rotation actually increases yields of all crops j has been demonstrated in utah andl and Cache count counties leg the county agent tn in utah county has assisted 54 farmers in planning their rotation systems and keeping production records for the last six years their increased yields resulting from this practice wore were reported as aa follows beets increase In creaso of tons ton sper per acre alfalfa I 1 ton per acre wheat bushels and potatoes bushels per acre in cache county 21 farmers have cooperated with the county agent tor far five years in a definite littO rotation practice their acre yields last year exceeded exceed eft average yields 3 2 tons of beets 5 12 1 2 bushels for wheat I 1 ton for alfalfa 1144 lax lb tor for canning peas safety first for the utah farmer means crop rotation |