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Show FARMERS I INCREASE YOUR YIELD. Suggestions Tending to Greater Production Made by U. A. C In order to increase the national food supply, and thus avert the food shortage that is imminent, the Utah Agricultural College, co-operating with the United States Department of Agriculture offers the following I suggestions to the fanners of the West. A PLAN TO rNCREASE CROP PRODUCTION. Dry Farm. 1. Encourage the planting of fallow fal-low lands to corn, potatoes, beans, or other cultivated crops. 2. Encourage the early plowing of brush lands and planting to corn and potatoes. 3. In the most favored sections where moisture conditions will admit, ad-mit, plant spring barley, oats and wheat.. 4. Advocate strongly that all lands remaining fallow and lands planted to cultivated crops be kept free from weeds. 5. Encourage the building of silos and the growing of silage crops as a means of producing more and cheaper feeds. (i. Urge every section to wage a vigorous campaign for the extermination extermin-ation and control of weeds. 7. Use every available means to exterminate all farm pest's, including insects and 'rodents. 8. Urge the testing of all seeds and plant only the best obtainable! 9. Solicit the banks and other commercial com-mercial agencies to render financial aid to the farmers in every legitimate way for the purchase of equipment, seeds and the production of greater crops. Irrigated Farms, 1. Utilize all waste places by planting plant-ing standard crops on the best lands and by planting sweet clover and rye on the poorer lands. 2., Encourage the boys and girls to utilize all vacant lots and yards in the cities and country, by planting to onions, beans, sugar beets, mangles, man-gles, etc. 3. Encourage a greater interest in home gardening, so thaf each family may be provided with sufficient vegetables veg-etables for home use. 4. In young orchards advise the planting of such crops as beans, potatoes, po-tatoes, sugar bect,s. tomatoes, carrots, mangles and garden crops. In the older orchards encourage the planting plant-ing of rape, clover, oats and peas', rape and barley or rape and oats for forage and pasture. 5. Advise the close pasturing of alfalfa fields in spring for the utilization utili-zation of feed and as a help in the control of weevil, 6. Follow the practice of the best farmers in your neiuhborhood. |