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Show FARM NOTES BY GOLDEN L. STOKER I Reaver County Agent Methods cf increasing the farm income of Beaver county were dis-, cussed at county planning meetings meet-ings held recently at Beaver. William Peterson, director of the Utah Extension service; Mrs. Rena B. Maycock, assistant director di-rector of home economics and Dr. 0. J. Wheatley were in attendance from .the state extension office, and took an active part in the. discussion. Committees previously appointed to make an inventory of "V the county resources presented their findings to the group during the morning session. The information infor-mation presented by the various comittees was used as a basis for the discussion that followed. The discussion, led by Director Peterson, Peter-son, featured the afternoon session. ses-sion. Reports were made by the chairmen chair-men of the various Committees, 1 including irrigation, crop improve-" ment, livestock, range, farm in-, debtedness- and finance, young j people, and health and sanitation. Members of the various committees commit-tees were as follows: Irrigation, H. A. Christiansen, J. S. Murdock, Howard Gospill and H. K. Boyter; crop improvement, E. M. Cates, Reed Smith, Arnold J. Low and William H. Wood; livestock, Frank D. Low, Dave McKnight and W. W. Farrer; range, William H. Wood, Frank Williams, Stan McKnight Mc-Knight and H. M. Christiansen; (Continued on last page) FARMNOTES (Continued from first page) farm indebtedness and finance, Samuel O. White, George P. Low and J. C. Smith; young people, Mrs. Caroline Smith, Mrs. Frieda B. Woo.! and Mrs. Nell B. Black-ett; Black-ett; and health and sanitation, Mrs. Bell White, Mrs. Frank Williams, Mrs. Alta Hollingshead and Ruth Botaroff. , The farm indebtedness and fin-j fin-j ance committee reported a farm ; indebtedness in Reaver county ot j approximately $iK2,017i'.r, which includes loans made on livestock, crops and real estate by local, I state and federal agencies, j The average annual preciplta-j preciplta-j tion from the establishment of the i Beuver and Milford stations to r.'.'iO is 4.2 inches greater at Beaver Bea-ver than at Milford the average precipitation being 12.9-1 inches for Iieavr jirvd 8.71 inches for Milford. The average length of glowing season from the lat killing kill-ing frost to the first killing frost is 9S d:iys for Beaver, 1-17 days for Minersville and 121 days for Milford. The average flow for the Heaver river for the past 22 years has been 3f,C00 acre feet each year. The average flow of water from Nrrth creekj Indian coek and South creek for the past six years is: North creek, 12,700 acre I font; Indian creek, 3,050 acre feet; and South creek, 2,300 acre feet; making an average of 51J2.r)0 acre feet of direct water flow from the Heaver river district watershed yearly. There are approximately 2,700 acres of land in the county infested infest-ed with morning glory, white top, Canada thistle, perennial sow thistle, whorl od milkweed, quack grass and puncture vine. The majority of it his is on privately owned farm land. Thoso together with many other interesting facts were reported by tho various committers. Tho following suggesions were brought out during the discussion as possible methods of Increasing tho farm income: Increase the yield nnd total prodotion of alfalfa by replanting old alfalfa fields; growing of more cash crops; maintaining main-taining soil fertility by the use of manure and commercial fertilizers; fertili-zers; crop rotation; more efficient use of irrigation water; and by more intensification of crops and livestock. Director Peterson encouraged the growing of sugar beets in the Milford and Minersville areas and encouraged as increase in the production pro-duction of dairy products in the Beaver valley. He suggested that the county planning committee give careful consideration to the production of dairy cows on pastures pas-tures now producing beef cattle. Records and statistics show that greater returns per acre can be obtained from dairy products than |