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Show Local Farmers Do Well With Wheat Grasses There are between twenty and twenty-five thousand acres of mar ginal wheat land, that, when and if the price of wheat goes down, would be unprofitable for the production- of wheat yet very good for the production of grass. A large number of farmers are having splendid success with irrigated ir-rigated pasture but due to the scar city of irrigation water it will be difficult to anticipate a very large acreage of this type of pasture. As a result, the only approach to the problem of getting more grass is to continue to improve the re-sppdine- area ootential. An indication of the attitude of livestock people in Millard County is evidenced in the fact that this year already some 4,000 lbs. tall wheat grass seed has been purchased pur-chased and most of it planted to date. In addition there has been between seven and eight tons of crested wheat grass seed harvested harvest-ed for reseeding projects. A rather rath-er large acreage of intermidiate and tall wheat grass is being harvested har-vested for seed this year, the bulk, of which will be planted here in Millard County. To list the individual farmers who have planted these grasses would be impossible here at this time. It should be sufficient to ' say that they are doing a splen did job and we hope that they will continue. Rodney G. Rickenbach . County Agent |