Show COUNTY AGENTS COLUMN the winters winter s feed supply farmers of millard county must laust face aco the tact fact that the coming winters teed feed supply may not be much better than during the past winter the entire west side ot at millard chuu ty will face ace a shortage of irrigation water that will be much more severe than the past season in ia the mountain towns the water supply will probably be near normal however the stands ot of alfalfa are not better than 60 percent normal it is true that some stands are good but others are very poor some farmers cant expect to get better than one halt half a load of 0 hay per acre unless something is done to supplement the alfalfa with the water situation looking fairly good in east millard county new alfalfa fields should be planted or old stands thickened if ryo rye has not been planted with the alfalfa tor for the purpose of obtaining more forage it la is not too late to plant oats sudan grass can be planted around the tenth to the fifteenth of at may to good advantage farmers should remember three to five acres acrea of corr cora well cared tor for will produce more forage than ten acres of alfalfa and perhaps as much as twenty acres of some stands A lesson may be learned from iron county farmers experience has taught the farmers of iron county the value of corn and the trench silo they do not intend to face the coming coining winter with a shortage of food feed tor for their livestock it Is interesting to know there will not be a single corn hog contract in iron co ot of the 45 or 60 corn hog contractors in that county during 1934 not a one is signing a 1935 contract contra et farmers know they must grow corn in order to supply feed tor for their livestock BLUE GRASS there Is still a fair supply ot at blue grass seed available for farmers of this county applications should be made as soon as aa possible aniseed Any seed left will be shipped out of the county utah wheat farmers to vote on referendum shall the government wheat adjustment juat ment program be extended thru 1946 to 1939 with some modifications is the question that will be asked ot at all wheat growers in the united states on may 25 according to a recent Rano announcement received by director william peterson from the agricultural adjustment administration plans in every wheat growing state are being made to fully inform all wheat growers on the present world wheat situation to encourage discussion of the problem and finally to permit each grower to register his bis own opinion on art the subject in a national referendum some of the provisions of the new proposed wheat program are 1 voluntary contracts calling tor for adjustment to meet consumption needs and export possibilities during tho the crop years 1936 through 1939 2 additional emphasis or inducements to shift land to grass in drought and dust storm areas 31 3 amount of adjustment and rate and condition ot at benefit payments to be determined each year but no adjustment to involve reduction of more than 25 26 per cent of individual base acreage and 1 4 the base period to remain the same as in the present program the final details of the proposed wheat program are not available yet according to william peterson but will be announced soon he states by county agents and wheat allotment committees who will be called upon to direct the referendum in their respective spec tive counties total benefit payments to utah farmers who signed up in the wheat production control program had reached on february 28 the last date tor for which figures are available |