Show COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN dr baker shows need for more alore U S children dr 0 E baker senior agricultural economist ot of the U S D A addressed the county agents home demonstration agents and extension specialists at the first session of the extension conference hold in january at the utah state agricultural college during the depression 34 percent of the rural people moved to the city said dr baker in speaking on the economic problems in population trends unless the birth rate is increased in the next decade of the century the commercial farming needed will be reduced there are only two thirds enough children being born to maintain the population of 0 our country A few year sago wo we were all concerned with increase in production but now we are more concerned with a decrease in production from an economic standpoint only one halt half of the farms now in existence are needed it if 50 percent of the farms were acre discontinued it ft would only reduce production by 11 per cent only two fifths of the farmers of the united states own their own land he pointed out in 1934 and 1935 50 per cent of the people in chicago lost equity in their homes but it the prosperity we are now having continues there will be a movement of 0 rural youth to the city it the reverse should take place and we have another depression pres slon the older people in the city will go to tho the farms arms dr baker baher stressed the need for the children to love the tarm farm and also the fact that the family la Is the foundation of the nation Non diversion classification aids small farms small tanners farmers by having their soll soil building allowances computed on their total acreage of 0 cropland rather than on soil conserving acreage will be able to participate in the 1937 agricultural conservation program much more widely than they did in 1936 william peterson Ic terson director tor for the U S A C extension service says gays director peterson outlines the benefits of the 1937 program to the small producer as follows the program Is 18 adapted to small farms arma by what Is known as the nou non diversion farm classification when a firm arm Is classified as a sion blon farm arm the soll soil bulldog allowance Is computed on the cropland basis and nd this enables the small farmer to participate in the program without throwing his farm out of 0 balanco balance which would be the case on many small farms it if a large portion of 0 the payment had to be earned by diversion ordinarily a farm arm will be one with less than 20 acres in the soil depleting base or one deemed to be in balance in respect to th the e proportions of 0 the farm in soil depleting and in soil conserving crops the soll soil building allowance will be figured by multiplying 80 cents by the num number or ot of acres acre 4 ot of cropland on the farm arm adjusted to in addition the soll soil building allowance tor for these small farms will include 1 for each acre of orchards vineyards vine yards nut trees and bush trees and tor for commercial vegetables it if single cropped in 1936 and 2 an acre tor for vegetables it double cropped in in 1936 air also 0 o there Is a pasture allowance which may be added in some cases these non diversion farms will earn only soll soil building payment as there will be no acreage diversion the minimum soll soil building allowance tor for a non diversion tann farm Is 20 an acre |