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Show ! FARM NEWS NOTES J i BY LEW MAR PRICE f i County Agent j Director Outlines Plans For Utah Wheat Adjustment It will be to the wheat grower'3 advantage to sign a contract with the government to curtail the production produc-tion of wheat, according to Director William Peterson of the Utah State Agricultural college, who has been named manager of the federal agricultural ag-ricultural emergency act for Utah. Within a few days the majority of wheat growers in this state will have an opportunity of hearing the domestic domes-tic allotment plan explained by federal, fed-eral, state or local representatives, Director Peterson said, as meetings have been held and are being planned to cover the principal grain-producing areas. The main provisions of the plan, as outlined by the state manager, follow: fol-low: County or district organizations will be effected to handle the machinery machin-ery of the plan. The county agricultural agric-ultural agent or some one designated by the state manager will be secretary secre-tary of each local. Wheat growers will then be given an opportunity to join one of the organizations and sign contracts pledging themselves to restrict the acreage they will plant to wheat in 1934 and 1935, according ac-cording to the decree of the secretary secre-tary of agriculture, which will not call for more than 20 per cent reduction. re-duction. In recognition of this contract the government will pay each wheat grower 30 cents a bushel for five-production five-production of the farmer for the past eights of his wheat crop for 1930, 1931, and 1932, "based on the everage three-year period. There will be no curtailment on the (Continued w last page) County Agent Notes (.Continued from first page) 1903 crop but the .commission wilj be forthcoming this year with a payment pay-ment in September and another when the contract is fulfilled, provided a contract has been signed with the government, Director Peterson said. There will be no price-firing of wheat to be sold, nor will the government govern-ment collect any wheat. Land thrown out of wheat production may be followed fol-lowed or planted to forage crops for domestic consumption. The government govern-ment will not rent this land. . If a farmer breaks his contract before its fulfillment in 1935, then he becomes a borrower of what has been paid to him in commissions and must return this amount to the government. gov-ernment. For further details ask a county agent or write to the Extension Service Ser-vice Office, Logan, Utah. Nutritionist Warns Against Use Of Canning Powders Chemical preservatives in the form of canning powders should never be used to shorten the processing time for fruits, vegetables, o r meats, warns Miss Elna Miller, extension nutritionist of the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college. Such chemicals preserve the food by making it indigestible to bacteria and substances poisonous to bacteria are usually poisonous to man, says Miss Miller. The pressure cooker method is the only safe method for processing meats and vegetables, other than tomatoes, to-matoes, because the bacteria which causes botulism in these foods cannot be killed in less than six hours where the boiling point is 212 degrees F. In higher elevations, such as are found in Utah, so much longer periods for processing are needed that the canned product is very much overcooked, unpalatable, and probably unsafe, according to the extension ex-tension nutritionist. Since the pressure cooker, if used correctly, will raise the boiling point up to 240 degrees F. at 10 pounds pressure and 250 degrees F. at 15 pounds, there is a possibility of des troying botulinus organism; in a much shorter period. If the solution is sufficiently acid as in fruits and tonatoes, the B. botulinus will be destroyed at boiling temperature: A few botulinus bacteria may live through an insufficient processing period and produce the toxin which makes the canned food deadly poisonous poison-ous even though the jar or can is erfectly sealed. |