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Show Grassland Meet Is Set For Logan Grass and its importance to western agriculture will be con-considered con-considered at the Western Grassland Grass-land conference to be held at Utah , State Agricultural college July 15, 16, and 17, William Peterson, Peter-son, director of the Utah Extension Exten-sion service, announces. Representatives from 13 western west-ern states are expected to be in attendance to study ways and means of conserving and improving improv-ing grass stands under the direction direc-tion of officials of the extension service, experiment stations, and forest service. The conference will be divided into two types of study, the frst two days being devoted to meetings meet-ings and the third day to a field trip. In the meetings such topics as pastures, grass on range lands, grass and the public, the place of grass in soil and water conserva- j tion, grassland iresearch, and gTJLSs i and the range livestock industry I will be discussed. i "Utah has a particular interest in grass improvements, the director di-rector said. "Preliminary reports show that Utah had a farm income of $57,000,000 in 1939. Of this total ?32,0O0,0OO was derived from livestock and livestock products pro-ducts while farm crops totaled 25,000,000 or about 80 per cent of the cash income from livestock. Approximately three-fourths of the total area of Utah grows grass used in the production of livestock". |