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Show gram aimed to have better tralad and mora useful citizens. In addition to training in project work, the members receive valuable PASTURES training in health, safety, leaderdemonstraship, working-togethtions, and exhibiting such items as foods, clothing, livestock, and National 4-Clab crops. Beaver county has many excelWeek Being Observed lent volunteer leaders. A leaders council is organized, with Mrs. March 5 to 12 is National as Club Week, and this is a signal Reva Albrecht, Minersville, Mrs. and Frieda Wood, president clubs in Beaver county to for Other as secretary. become reorganized for another Minersville, Mrs. Dorothy Johnmembers are year's club work, says Grant son and John R. Yardley of BeaBeaver County Agent. ver, and Mrs. Dora Walker and Last year there were 8 Mrs. Bernice Smith of Milford. clubs organized in Eeaver county, Those interested in enrolling in with 227 members and 45 leaders. work should contact County Projects included foods, clothing, Agent Esplin or a member of the home improvement, leadership, Leaders Council. beef, sheep, dairy, swine, and poultry. There are many additionMr. and Mrs. Victor Myers rememal projects available for cently attended the MIA roadshow bers, including crops, forestry, soil presentation in Las Vegas, Nevada, conservation, automotive, carpenwhere their daughter, Mrs. Colleen try, electricity, gardening, gun Farnow, presides over the drama safety, horse raising, and many department. Mrs Farnow arranged others to meet the needs of any the script for the roadshow in their members. ward. prospective I club work is a voluntary pro- THE BEAVER PRESS Beaver, Utah MARCH 11, 1SG0 FRIDAY, reported that, the fertilized grass 7520 of pounds produced hay per acre while the unfertilized grass produced 3235 pounds per acre. Production, he reported, was 2 13 times greater on the fertilized area and the production of protein was even FERTILIZER IS PROVED BOON TO MOUNTAIN MEADOW fr M er An acre of average mountain meadow or pastureland has the nutrient value to produce about $23 worth of beef at 20c a pound. Fertilization, plus good water and harvest management, can increase this figure to $104.00 worth of beef an acre a gain of 875.g0 an acre. if I H 1 n. . .jf - n. . 4-- II ' 4-- , : .v r-t- $ aJ - i Es-pli- n, These remarkable productivity figures resulted from special area studies sponsored by United States Steel, a leading western fertil'zcr producer, working with ranchers and agricultural agencies throughout this region. Many of these studies ;re presented in the new U S Srcel movie, "Profit on the Mountain." Tiieno an nwny other current research studios are being motivated by a growing concern among mountain slate agricultural experts about the competitive forces which today face ranchers and beef growers in this area. Salt Lake City agronomist Dr. Ray C. Lipps, in a talk before the Intcrmountain Range and Fertilizer Conference at Fort Collins, Colo., late in February, pointed up this problem when he said: "Beef is being grown cheaper and cheaper as other sections of the country find that well managed grasslands and profit are synonymous. On the olJier hand, in many parts of the Intcrmountain West, I hear of declining range and meadow yields and grazing allotment reductions or restrictions." According to most experts, the solution to this problem can only lie found in more modern techniques of range management which can sharply increase the tonnage of beef produced per unit of land. Among the various management practices cited for making land give a bigger return at the lowest cost, adequate fertilization heads the list of effective steps that can be taken. And, in the Intermountain area, nitrogen is the fertilizer most often needed in a range or grassland improvement pmgram. Typical of the increased yields that can be realized through the use of nitrogen is a case study reported from Idaho last January by John Niebergall, district forest ranger. After applying about 43 pounds of nitrogen per acre to test plots of seeded ranges, he 1 4-- II S& Mi-.:-, 4-- H .."--- r 4-- H One at noon, one at night, One along the way You never outgrow your need for Milk, Drink thrw glasses every day! 4-- s.( AMERICAN DAIRY ASSOCIATION OF UTAH air-drie- slightly greater. In another typical test, using correct harvest and proper irrigation, nitrogen boosted hay yields at the first cutting from three tons per acre to four tons per acre. When the regrowth was also treated with nitrogen, it yielded an additional ton of hay per acre a total increase of Vz tons per acre. And, heavy nitrogen applications have actually increased hay yield three tons per acre. Research has repeatedly shown that a program of fertilization, along with water control and two crop harvesting, can boost the carrying capacity of the average mountain meadow or pasture by four times. This means that an acre of land which, under conventional range practices, supported one cow only a hundred days, can produce enough to carry four cows for the same length of time. This assumes that water is controlled and correct harvesting practices are followed. Through such a pragrom, farmers and ranchers can boost production per acre by three or four times and their profits even one-fourt- more. " h 7 luiil p ifj, nip iiflpji !! The sign of the store that Wherever you see this sign the sign of the USS Nitrogen Fertilizer dealer you know that profits are for sale. USS Nitrogen Fertilizers add extra dollars to every acre . . . increasing yields at little added expense . . . producing more and better crops for your profit. Stop at the sign of the USS It takes Nitrogen Fertilizer dealer. Learn how you can buy added the sign of the stos that sells farm profits USS profit for your farm Fertilizers mad bjr Nitrogen United States Steel. m? nun WT km Nitrogen Fertilizers BRADSMW EQUIPMENT BEAVER, UTAH . |