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Show I FARM NOTES I j BY GOLDEN L. STOKER ( Beaver County Agent Farmers Elect County Committeemen Commit-teemen County committeemen for the Beaver County Agricultural Conservation Con-servation association were elected Tuesday of last week by conservation conserva-tion farmers meeting in their respective re-spective districts at Beaver, Milford Mil-ford and Minersville, accarding to Golden L. Stoker, county agricultural agricul-tural agent and secretary of the association. Committeemen elected elect-ed to serve during 1938 are Arnold J. Low, Beaver; William H. Wood, Minersville, and E. M. Cates, Milford. Mil-ford. At the beginning of the meetings, meet-ings, Saul E. Hyer, chairman ot the state committee and Cache county farmer, discussed "Why a 1938 Program". In introducing the 1938 conservation conser-vation program, Mr. Hayer said there are limits to what it can can do. It is primarily a conservation program and cannot alone prevent burdensome surpluses nor does it provide a means for storing reserve re-serve so that they will not depress prices. Nor can it fully insure a farmer against crop losses. The program can, however, help raise farm income by helping farmers to produce more economically, economi-cally, by .providing ronsUrvation. payments and by improving the soil so that it can produce more when needed. In addition, for some crops it indirectly influences volume and therefore the prices of these crops. Mr. Hyer reports that many feel that the 1938 conservation program will fit Utah farms better bet-ter than ever, while the range program provides larger allowances allow-ances on the poorer land where improvement is needed the most. During the first ten months 01 1937, 659 loans touting $4,586,000 were given out in Utah by the Federal Intermediate Credit bank, through the Utah Farm and Utah Livestock Production Credit association, as-sociation, R. T. Evans, executive secretary, reports. Repayment on these loans began in September, and $2,718,000 has been repaid. Much of the liquidation of these debts came in October, when UUh sheep raisers took advanUge of a good lamb market to dispose of a large portion of their crop. |