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Show l County Agent Notes Investigations in at least three states including Utah have found during the past five years through chemical analyses and practical feeding feed-ing tests that alfalfa hay produced on land of low fertility has a much lower feeding value than hay produced pro-duced on the more fertile land. The plant food element that has attracted the particular attention during this period, and which, under conditions of a low available supply in the soil causes production of alfalfa al-falfa hay with lesser food value, is phosphorus. Livestock feeders in our county this year have proven to their own satisfaction that our feeds, at least for fattening purposes, are deficient in phosphorus; and that the use of a supplemental feed rich in that element ele-ment (such as steamed bone meal) prevents a form of indigestion which expresses itself in stiffness and bloating sometimes resulting in heavy losses. If this condition is true in fattening fatten-ing livestock, it is no doubt true, probably to a lesser extent, with our dairy cattle and other livestock consuming con-suming alfalfa hay. In the Utah Experiment Station Bulletin No. 247, Professor D. W. Pittman gives results of tests which show that alfalfa land to which barnyard barn-yard manure has been applied not only increases the yield proportionately proportion-ately with the amount applied, but the percentage of phosphorus content is increased as much as double. This brings out an additional value to barnyard manure, when applied to alfalfa land, that we had not appreciated ap-preciated in the past. Thousands of tons of barnyard manure are available now for applying apply-ing to crop lands in our county, and the sooner it is applied to the land, the greater will be the returns this year both through increased yields and improved quality. Emergency Crop Loans We are advised that farmers seeking seek-ing loans from the $-10,000,000 emergency emer-gency crop loan fund set up by congress con-gress recently will be directed to apply ap-ply first to the production credit association as-sociation organized in Salt Lake City on February 9. Regulations as to course to take are now being prepared pre-pared and will be sent out soon. If the association cannot make the loan because the applicant has insufficient in-sufficient collateral this will establish estab-lish the proof required by law that' the borrower is not eligible to borrow bor-row from other sources. It is required by law that borrowers borrow-ers as a condition to receiving an emergency loan must furnish proof of cooperation with the A. A. A. That is, if eligible, they must sign up under the reduction programs, ori otherwise agree to not increase production pro-duction this year over the greatest acreage of the past two years in any! of the crops designated as basic. The( crops designated as basic grown in our county are the grains, corn, dairy : cattle and products and hogs. Beefj cattle may be included later. I |