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Show ACTSlCTTTtTRB T7TAH BTAT B1TEWBIOW SFRVTCR HOMF WOWICS FARMandHOMEfc I j. S. Dpft. mi Aii.. Utah dtU Agrt, CeUca ao4 Cvuuty CommuuMua UvixuiLUiii Forty per cent, or some three million acres of this, could be planted to grass, with the livestock live-stock carrying capacity increased in-creased from three to 20 times, he said. "Such a reseeding program would greatly increase the number num-ber and quality of livestock that could be raised ,and would especially es-pecially take care of the spring and fall feed shortages," he added. ' Beaver County has thousands of acres of sagebrush land that should be reseeded. The sooner soon-er it is done the sooner it will start paying off. The U S Department of Agriculture Agri-culture and other agencies are uniting on a summer campaign initiated by Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural College Extension Service Serv-ice to increase Utah's grass production, pro-duction, as a boon to its livestock live-stock industry and as a soil and water conservation measure. As a follow-up to earlier efforts, ef-forts, a meeting was held recently re-cently at the Intermountain Forest For-est Service headquarters in Ogden, called by the Extension Service to develop plans for further encouraging and re-seeding re-seeding of much of Utah's millions mil-lions of sagebrush acres. Dr. Carl Frischknecht, USAC extension director, served as chairman of the conference, which was attended by representatives repre-sentatives of the Forest Service, Serv-ice, Soil Conservation Service, Production and Marketing Administration, Ad-ministration, Bureau of Land Management, and other members mem-bers of the U S A C faculty. It was agreed by the group that the Extension Service should take the initiative in . furthering the range reseeding work being conducted in Utah, , with the other agencies closely cooperating. Much of the 7,- 532,000 acres of privately owned range land in Utah is . covered with sagebrush, according accord-ing to A. G. Kilburn, U S A C extension soil conservationist. |