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Show FARM NOTES BY GOLDEN L. STOKER Beaver County Agent Stockmen to Make Application For Range Program As previously announced, nine range-building practices which stockmen in Utah may perform during the remainder of 1936 and the rates of payment for these practices have been approved by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. Payments will be made to co-operators co-operators for the following practices prac-tices that are carried out on privately pri-vately owned or privately operated range land: a. Contouring. b. Walter developments . 1. Development of springs and seeps. 2. Earthen pits or reservoirs for holding run-off and impounding precipitation. 3. Wells. c. Water spreading to prevent soil washing. d. Range fences. e. Reseeding. f. Railing sagebrush. g. Fire guards. For further details contact the county agent at Beaver, William Woods at Minersville, or Eldon Cates at Milford. Range stockmen who wish to take part in the program must make application at the county agent's office immediately. Information on the blanks does not place the operator or ranch man under any obligation. The committee will assume that, unless application is made within the next few days, the stockman is not interested in the program. County Agents Assist in AAA Benefit Grants County agents are busy men these days, according to W. W. Owens, assistant director of the Utah State Agricultural college extension ex-tension service. The clearing of necessary papers in the federal benefit payment pay-ment plan under the AAA, which will bring more than $1,750,000 to Utah farmers within the next few months, is taking a considerable portion of the agents' time. This means that through their offices from $50 to $60 will be paid to each farmer in the state in pending grants. Here is how the coming payments pay-ments are divided: for the 2500 wheat growers who complied with the former AAA program and have not received all of their pay, $300,000; for 7000 sugar beet growers who have not received settlement, $150,000; for those who have signed to cooperate in the agricultural conservation program, $1,30Q,000. LOTS OF CAKE! J. Frank Grimes, founder-president of the Independent Inde-pendent Grocers' Alliance, lights candles on a quarter-ton birthday cake as IG A this week celebrates the tenth anniversary of its founding. More than 6,500 grocer members of the alliance throughout the nation are celebrating the occasion, which will last until October 31. Left to right are Lucille Rudland, Mr. Grimes, and Jeanette Gayon. The picture was made in toe Chicago headquarters offices of the organization. |