Show COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN election held for 1938 soil conservation county committeemen county committeemen for or the Alil laid county agricultural conservation association were elected friday december 17 by conservation farmers meeting in the county court house at fillmore according to marvin ai M hatch county chairman committeemen amen elected to serve during 1938 ire are J lee anderson andersen oak city E 11 II clarke delta carl nixon holden and E T kanosh at the meeting literature was given out which showed that 1937 lias has been a favorable year for most farmers far mera however it if we have normal weather in 1938 and 1939 growing surpluses and lower prices are likely tor for some commodities in the 1938 conservation program there will be limits to what the farmer can do it will be primarily a conservation program the new conservation program has been simplified so that a single total payment will be received this will be figured out at the beginning of the year so that a farmer will be able to figure out which farming practices vil nil give him the greatest returns from the soil conservation program As a measure of the work and practices needed tor for a well balanced farm program two to goals will be established tor for each farm the first of these Is a total soil depleting crop goal which Is simply a measure of those crops which deplete or rundown the soil in contrast to the soil depleting goal Is the soil building goal which will be tho the mark for the farms soll soil building practices these practices will be much the same as those employed in 1937 it if the farmer roaches reaches pis soll soil building goal and does not exceed hla his soil depleting goal he will receive full payment on the other ha a d wae n otimae ot t either by falling short on soil build belld ing practices or by going over on soil depleting crops hiss his payment will be reduced accordingly under the 1938 program the farmer can tell right at the start just where lie ho is going what lie he wants to do and how much he will receive to ta help him do it A change in method of payment this year la Is going to mean larger allowances for many utah ranchers for the sugar beet growers there is the new 1937 sugar act which Is to be administered by the county conservation committee under this new act utah growers will receive about a ton of beets varying with sugar content |