Show Palmer Explains AAA Program For Soil Conservation Grow Grass and and how to get more out of It on Iron county ranches isan is isan an tin important problem confronting ranchers acco according ding to J J. M Palmer Palm Palm- er chairman of the County A AAA A A committee He lie pointed d out that oi 01 privately owned rangeland theA the theA A AAA A A Range Conservation Pro- Pro program Is aiding ranchers In several several several sev sev- eral ways to Increase the amount of forage on their ranches He lie said that perhaps the most popular method In use for IncreasIng increasIng increasing ing the amount of grass on Iron county ranches is deferred deterred grazing This method is simply to let nature reseed the range by the rancher keeping his livestock estock off the range during the production of seed In Inthis Inthis Inthis this way native grasses reseed the section of range rang kept from being being grazed Under the 1940 A AAA A A program ranchers may qualify for 75 per percent percent cent of their range-building range allowance allowance allowance allow allow- ance by deferring 25 23 per cent of their range They may earn this allowance by carrying out supplemental supplemental supplemental supple supple- mental practices such as fencing weed control rodent control and measures to prevent erosion Another method of Increasing the grass on rangeland is to reseed the range to adapted grasses by grasses by mechanical mechanical me mO- or artificial means Payments Payments Payments Pay Pay- ments under the range program help to pay a part part of the cost of the seed Contour furrowing spreader dams and other means of preventing prevent prevent- ing runoff help to Increase the growth of grass on the range The water Is held back to support the growth of vegetation Instead of being allowed to carry away the topsoil of the range |