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Show ACTirtll.TTTrtP TJTAH STATE EXTENSION SERVICE ITOME FfONOMICS FARMandHOMEte '. U. S. UdiiU ill Agti., Utah Stale AKri. f Icue and Count Commission Cooocratin Winter Wheat May Be Third Largest Crop If the winter wheat crop turns out as now indicated, U. S. farmers farm-ers this year will produce the 3rd largest crop in history. Prospects are for a crop of 845,484,-000 845,484,-000 bushels, a total exceeded only in two other years: winter wheat production in 1947 was a record 1 067 970,000 bushels, and in 1946 the crop totaled 870,725,000 bushels. bush-els. Acreage remaining for harvest this year is estimated at 52,471,000 acres, about 4 percent lesss than last year, but 26 percent above the 1936-45 average. The portion of the seeded acreage that will not be harvested for grain is estimated at 10.5 percent, compared with 5.7 percent last year and the 10-year average of 12.4 percent. This indicated in-dicated yield is 16.1 bushels per acre for harvest, 3.4 bushels lower than last year and 12 bushel per acre lower "than average. Alfalfa Report It has been thought for some time that two pre-bloom dustings, propertly timed, would give better control of Lygus and weevil. Experiments Ex-periments to this effect are being carried out at the present time in the Delta area under the supervision supervi-sion of Frank V. Lieberman of the U. S. D. A., Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. The six fields being used belong to Doyle Pace, South Tract, S. N. Nickle, South Tract; L. N. Nickle, South West Delta; Hon Cropper, Hinckley area, Jim and Homer Petersen, Pet-ersen, Abraham area; and Harold Done, Woodrow area. These fields have been divided into two plots of about four acres each. Plot 1 was given its first and only dusting dust-ing on June 5th with 20 pounds of 10 percent DDT per acre. Plot 2 was given its first dusting on May 25th with 20 pounds of 5 percent DDT per acre, and the second dusting dust-ing is to be applied approximately on June 12, consisting of 20 lbs. of 10 percent DDT per acre. Dont' Wait Until the Well Runs Dry After the topsoil is gone, it is too late the begin thinking about saving the soil, says Alma J. Christ-ensen Christ-ensen .Chairman of the Millard County Agricultural Conservation Committee. He points out that waiting for crop yields to drop and gullies to appear before carrying out conservation practices to conserve con-serve soil and water is about like calling the fire department after the house has ' burned to the ground; Some land has not been seriously damaged by erosion or depletion, but now is the time to keep it that way. Keep yields high, and the land will help to bear the expense of keeping up the fertility. But let the topsoil get way and with it the soil fertility, and the expense of rebuilding is expensive and the damaged land is not in condition to help bear the cost. Conservation farming every year is the most economical and most effective farming, says the county chairman. It is like locking the barn door before the horse is stolen. stol-en. Conservation farming year in and year out will help the land carry its own conservation costs. |