Show many farmers attend soil conservation meet A good representation of farmers attended the soil conservation meeting at the court house monday evening the meeting was called by county agent C R richards under instructions from secretary Secre tiry of 0 agriculture henry A wallace discussion of agricultural problems and suggested items to be included in the 1937 program was the purpose of the mee meeting aing W IV owens assistant director of the extension service and a member of the state soil conservation committee was present at the meeting g mr owens discussed the agricultural situation pointing out the purpose of the soil conservation program and its accomplishments mr richards states that a free discussion was had by the farmers present pointing out that the pro program granil should include some encouragement for the use of fertilizers a higher benefit payment for weed control that there should be included in ili the pro program ram some type of crop insurance and all of the features so brought to gether that they would help to stabilize farm prices |