Show Basin Farmers Urged fo t Cooperate and Organize I I By B D H County Agricultural Conservation Con Com Com- Corn I I Io much should farmers pro- pro cc I Let L t s c FIlm that thit our gyp pr- t nIl nIl- n J farming plant pant Is l id- id idone nd ud one head similar to an auto auto- manufacturing turing co cO t ir r manager manac-cr is 10 a business s man min f firt first rating Tho Th first question Ip A Would a ak k J Is Now FO mu h firm farm r ran I sell the tho th coming comini spar var Rr tie p would world further reason tha that t there lire ire only two t mark markets he home or domestic market And oA hp a foreign or 1011 market Next Nex by thorough estimation he a ouid mate very pry oct lIt awl 1 1 that qt at th too o markets Would Quid a 1111 t nt at R t II a Now h hould would the plants capacity to se If with the present v v hp ho h could uv the available 9 markets m This Is what hat his hie Investigation I would oUId disclose In me ne spar 1917 1937 The plant has million ages alres a of crop land The domestic market will consume the produce from million acres The export expert market will consi conse me the produce from 40 4 to to 45 millions acres Now adding these two too tv 0 together our manager is surprised to find that he still has a plant 15 16 to 20 million acres Ilar larger a er than he needs need Would an er manufacturer say in inthis inthis Inthis this case I am going to nm run my plant at full tun capacity anyway even the tho eh gh h I have to sires sire's lIro this sur- sur surplus surplus sur surplus plus on the market No he knows s that would mean a n loss to his firmand firm firmand firmand and a demoralization of the mar mar- ket kt market Ross How many IW 1437 model auto auto- automobiles automobiles mobiles were fre there unsold when the 1938 models came out Lilts t s see what our farm plant manag r proposes to do with his 15 or 20 million acres if it he keeps from ha having ving a demoralizing sur- sur sur-p sur pI He Ne finds that tha sweeping s winos wine anc ant sloshing water wafer are blowing and washing away ay our valuable top oil til oil hea heavy vy cropping and leaching topI of land sapping the fertility of the soil soU Something must most be done If this plant Is kept In repair rep and ande e ae are to survive as a o nation o i He r n-r finds that the Individual farmer in the main is to institute the necessary soil soU building tices Uces practices and still make a respectable j living for his family so to keep the farmer from mining his soil to the limit he otters offers Payment for tor soil soU building practices He lie again discovers to his surprise that there is about 25 million acres of ex- ex ex extremely poor crop land this should he be shifted d to w ca native w timberland and native grasses That in proper order to keep the plant In prop er repair Many acres now In soil soU depicting crops must mut be into soil soU conserving crops Thus the plant is kept In constant re- re pair repair pair and the problem of the sur- sur sur I I plus Is taken care ofAs of ofAs As our manager around C r 1 T pr plant he finds that an- an another another other ether anether nut Dart of the machinery is ls in int rib t I rib J repair repa the f Land big which supports one of our big big- real t Industries our out livestock He H I J that l laborers ix tW this part pf the theland plant have been mining the land to the limit thru drought and depression to keep their heads bedone above aba wat water r Something must be beto done to this vital Pita part of at the or- or organization organization or organization Again the opera operators tors are unable to buy the tho necessary re- re repairs repairs re repairs pairs So the range program with its benefit benent payments Is instituted b by offering to the ranch operator I first Contouring range land per acre age developing develop is 19 or ors Seeps eps ps 50 00 construction of ot res reservoirs res- res reservoirs reservoirs per cubic yard ard of fill or excavation digging or drilling wells 1 per foot water ater spreading per feet teet of ditching fenc- fenc I fencing in ii i ing i 30 i k- k kA A per rod control re- re establishing fire guards and deferred deterred grazing I A wonderful plant plane this farm and range organization producing the most vital necessities for human human- humanity ity foOd food and clothing Yet we M as laborers In the greatest plant on the face tace of ot the globe are arc the most disorganized group the world over We must cooperate we must save our very life s blood the soil soU savel We Wel must keep away from demoralizing surpluses We ml must t have our fair share of or the tho na national Income Our government is behind Its It's us our f opportunity The answer to all this is organisation simple cooperation tion 4 I |