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Show Supplemental Pasture Program Successful According ta Kiiinen Gardner of Newcastle, lehi Joins of Ceda" Clty. He: man E. IJayles of Parowan, Paro-wan, and many ot!'e:s. the supplemental supple-mental pasture pro .'ram inaugurated inaugur-ated by the Iron County Soil Conservation Con-servation District is resulting in n considerable increase in the acreage of both grass and rye pastures Through the medium of the Soil Conservi Uon iSeivice. the District Is ablp lo furn'sh some grass seed, tin hnical assistance, and also loan some equipment such as tractors, tract-ors, disc plows, double disc harrows, har-rows, seed drills. -tc with which to do this planf.n ;. The results of the above program pro-gram will be tlveefe-M. F.rst. livestock live-stock owners w ll have additional high quality spring-fall pastures to lamb and pra'v on and thus can produce more meat for the "Food F.r Freedom' program; secondly, spring-fill p sturea In the val'.eyi will enable stocki.'.-ni to keep their livestock off the inounta n ranges unt I later in the spr ng and will permit an earlii : removal in the f 11. By the foregoing practice a (' finite lniprov, .iient of the moun-! moun-! in ranges ca 1 be an'icipated. I :he existing grass w.ll have ample j Dportunity to go to seed and thus i produce me e fora e. At the same ' t ine an increase in grass cover vou'.d help i held the topsoll in p'aee und ir. i'( 1 (ally reilu'e th" : imount of 1 roslon. j O'io cf .h- iniv.v. tant re.u'.is of j ''re abiv . . p-r:-rani won'. I It r-."'uee the '' am':le" In the ra'slnjj of live.to k. In the past the rx-j Luting shortage of spring-fall rang-?: made It a que . t Ion of whether to j run more livestock and take a ' iharce on an early sprin; and a! late f ill or t ) "play It safe". With a definite amount of spring-fall range to plan on, livestock operators opera-tors can maintain more definite numbers In their herds and thus bo able to more accurately plan the amount of over-wintering feeding feed-ing necessary. |