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Show NOWERS URGES SOIL CONSERVATION USE Farmers of Beaver County have an opportunity in 1950 of making better use of the Agricultural Agri-cultural Conservation program than ever before, says " Bob Nowers, chairman of the County Coun-ty P M A committee. With allotments - on wheat and potatoes, and the need to shift produrtion on some of the acreage of these crops, farmers ' have an opportunity to use the Agricultural Conservation Program Pro-gram in the seeding of grasses and legumes. In this, cooperating cooper-ating farmers will not only be helping to bring production into balance, but they will be building reserves in the soil for future needs. The seeding of grasses and legumes is only a part of the job of the most effective conservation. con-servation. To obtain the maximum max-imum in stands and growth, the chairman points out, most soils in the state require phosphate phos-phate and the agricultural conservation con-servation (program practice for the application of this material to new seedings is an important part of the current conservation conserva-tion effort. A C P assistance for these practices i available to all farmers in Beaver County, says the chairmen. With these practices prac-tices as tools in the effort to control erosion and build soil fertility, farmers of Beaver County are in a position to make greater and more effective use of the program than ever before. be-fore. Urging full use of the program pro-gram to take advantage of the current conservation opportunity, opportun-ity, the chairman says, "Because the conseration of our soil and water resources is of such vital importance to all the people peo-ple of the country, the A C P has been provided as a means of getting the job done thru cooperation of the farmer and the people who depend on his land for a living. Farmers cooperating co-operating in the ACP must realize that 15 to 20 city people are helping him and are depending depend-ing on the farmers to protect their heritage in the soil. The present period of adjustment offers a real opportunity for farmers to assure the nation of their wholehearted efforts to assume continued abundant production." |