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Show Live-at-Home Plan Is Urged for Utah The live-at-home program sponsored sponsor-ed by the Extension service of the Utah Agricultural college requires hat farms produce a maximum of food for the family and feed for the livestock. The products of the farms of Utah may be placed in these two classifications: classifi-cations: first, food for people; second, sec-ond, feed for livestock. The livestock in turn produce food for people in the ' form 'of ' meat, 'milk 'and eggs; ''clothing in the form of wool, mohair and leather, and also furnish horsepower horse-power for-, farm work. Tho human food produced in Utah, such as wheat and canned milk, may occasionally be transported across .he ocean for consumption in foreign lands. Other foods such as eggs, fruits, vegetables, sugar, meat and animals are shipped out of the state, some of them going as far as the seaboards both east and west. Still other foods are transported from the farms on which they are produced to Salt Lake City, Ogden, and other cities in the state. A part of the food produced on every farm is consumed right on that farm. Farms must produce more food than is needed for the farm population. popula-tion. In the United States, only one person in, four is living on the farm. This means that if the county were on a self-sustaining basis it would be necessary for every farm family to produce food for itself and for three 'jther families who are not farming. If a line were drawn around Utah and it were required to produce all its own food, every farm family would have to support itself and one other family, as about half of our population does not farm. As our farms are organized, however, how-ever, one farm may produce one hundred hun-dred times as many potatoes as it consumes, but grows no fruit at all. Another farm may produce a hundred times as many peaches as it consumes, con-sumes, but produces no potatoes. Still others may produce a hundred times more milk, eggs, or meat than they consume, but produce no other foods. The farm that is adapted to produce pro-duce potatoes, but not peaches, will no doubt continue to grow potatoes and buy peaches with part of the money received from the sale of potatoes. pota-toes. The farm that produces peaches but not potatoes may also continue to buy . potatoes with money received from the sale of peaches. The tendency ten-dency this year is for that farm which produces peaches to also produce pro-duce enough potatoes for home use. As- long as peaches were a good price ' and the market was fairly sure, it . was more convenient, and often as economical, to grow only peaches and buy potatoes. With farm prices low in comparison to other prices, the farmer loses every time he sells some of his products to buy other things he does not produce. Until farm prices reach the level of prices of other commodities, it may not be so convenient but it will be more economical eco-nomical for farmers to produce everything they possibly can for home consumption. i |