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Show County Agent Explains Conservation Program For This Year The 1938 conservation program is essentiallyi the same this year as it was in 1936-37, with a few exceptions where they have added new practices and where they have taken some out, according ac-cording to Anson B. Call, county agent. The maximum payment any ranch operator may earn by performing per-forming any or all approved range-building range-building practices in accordance with the provisions of the program is called the range-building allowance. allow-ance. "In Utah", Mr. Call explains, "the range-building allowance for 1938 is three cents per acre of range land in any ranching unit, plus 75 cents times its carrying capacity. The allowance should be caluculated on the basis of an acreage of not more than 60 acres for each animal unit of grazing capacity established on the ranching ranch-ing unit. "Grazing capacity means the number of animal units which the range land will sustain over a 12-month 12-month period without injury to forage, tree growth, or watershed. water-shed. "In Washington County an ad-(Continued ad-(Continued on page eight) Range Conservation (Continued from first page) dition of 35 cents an acre allowance allow-ance will be made where there is meadow land from which hay is normally hanested for feeding livestock." Mr. Call further explains that the program applies to privately owned or privately controlled range land that produces without cultivation or irrigation forage grazed by livestock. It includes leased land from the state, county, or municipal government, or Indian In-dian land not operated by permits. per-mits. The program specifically excludes ex-cludes from participation land in the public domain, including lands owned bv the United States or administred by the Taylor Grazing Graz-ing Act. or by the Forest Sen-ice ofthe United States Department of Agriculture, and other lands in which the beneficial ownership owner-ship is in the United States. Private Pri-vate lands placed under the control con-trol of the Forest Sen-ice also are excluded. Applications must be submitted to the county agent's office not later than June 1, 1938. Any applications ap-plications entered after that date will receive no benefit payments. In determining the grazing capacity ca-pacity of a ranching unit, consideration con-sideration will be given to the palatability and density of forage for-age growth, climatic fluctuations, distribution and character of water facilities, topographic and cultural features, and the presence and absence of rodents and poisonous plant infestations, and the number of classes of livestock previously caixied. Mr. Call said. Following are the practices which can be participated in during dur-ing 193S: Natural resooding by deferred grazing: Artificial resoeding; Contour Con-tour listing, furrowing, or sub-soiling: sub-soiling: Spreader cams: Spreader terraces: IVwIi.pment of earthen tanks or reservoirs: Development of concrete or nibble-masonry darns: Wells, two typos, one with casing or more than four inches in diameter, and one with casing less than four inches in diameter but not smaller than two inches: Development of natural watering places, seeps, and springs: Fire guards. Tho fencing has boon left out of the 193S program. Any ranch operator, who desires more information regarding this program will Iv able to get further fur-ther information and applications to fill out from Mr. Call's office. |