Show II II Farm News Conservation Consel in 1018 19 Pi Pr bably not as much over all conservation but a great concentration concentration concentration con con- on most nee needed ed practices practices practices tices Is I. I Foy chairman of the Garfield County Agricultural Agricultural tural Conservation Committee predicts under the 1918 1913 Agricultural Agricultural Agricultural Agri Agri- cultural Conservation program Disclaiming any gifts girts of or prophecy tho the county chairman said ho bases his prediction on what he re knows about farming and farmers and about tho the 1948 1945 program In tho time first place ho explains with tho the reduced assistance which can bo be offered many farmers will not be in a position position position tion to carry out as much and andas ns as many conservation practices The limit on tho the amount of assistance to any ono one person may kayo have somo some effect in reducing reducing reducing ing tho amount of conservation but ho he points out that in tho the past comparatively few farmers received more moro than this amount in assistance Tho main reason wo we can expect expect expect ex ex- even oven better conservation work worl tho the chairman states is that practices havo been improving improving improving ing each year The Tho program has been developing toward moro more adaptability to local needs and andas as farmers understand tand conserva conserva- lion tion better they are doing a abettor abettor bettor better job More Moro and more moro farmers aro are sensing their responsibility as custodians of or tho Nations Nation's soil and what they are expected to todo todo i do in return for assistance they receive to help them carry out these needed conservation tices Improved machinery and better better better bet bet- ter equipment are making it possible pos pos- sible for Cor farmers to do a better Job of or leveling land-leveling construction construction tion of dams drains diversion ditches and similar practices Better Detter machinery is available for the tho spreading of limo and phosphate and improved strains of DC grasses and legumes will make mako for greener and more moro productive meadows and pastures What wo we expect to be dono done trod what ought to be bo done still still will bo ho a Go long way apart Mr Foy said Wo We have hare made progress progress progress pro pro- gress but It has hardly been enough to keep up with the ev ev- ev er Increasing er-Increasing demands for more food Wo We still sUll aro are losing faster than we can afford if lC we expect to continue continuo to meet the needs of or tho the nation |