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Show Amalga Farmers Get Good Advice At Planning Meet Eliminate spring wheat on Amalga Amal-ga irrigated farms and replace it by the production of barley for feed, was recommended by the I Amalga planning group Monday evening. County Agent R. L. Wrigley reports re-ports that a large committee of farm men and women of Amalga came out to discuss their farm problems with the view of provid- ' ing adequate ' food for health of I the family and for the lend-lease I program. It was reported that everyone in Amalga grows a garden gar-den but those gardens should be improved this year and a sufficient suffi-cient amount of vegetables grown for summer r.se, to dry, can, and ! store for winter. They recommend a brood sow on every farm in order or-der to provide pork and fat for the family and a few pigs for sale. Poultry of the heavy breeds of 50 to 100 hens was recommended for every family to provide eggs I and meat as a number of families now- are not producing their own j eggs and, therefore, at the higher prices do not use as many as j they should. ! More pastures was recommended for the Amalga farms. To step up product-ion of hay it was suggested suggest-ed that alfalfa be plowed as soon", as it is evident that the plants ; are dying or thinning out which may be in some cases three, four, or five years, but at any rate to maintain good stands of hay to i produce at least five tons to the acre. More corn for silage was reec:"-mended reec:"-mended and it was suggested that farmers invcsMga.te. needed machinery mach-inery to handle the corn crop. Better herd sires was recommended recommend-ed to maintain the high production produc-tion of cows. It was also suggested that the farmers cooperate fully on the weed control program. The Utah Farm Production Credit Cre-dit Association, a cooperative credit cre-dit Association serving the agricultural agri-cultural industry in Utah, will hold its annual meeting in Logan, on Saturday, February 21. A business busi-ness meeting will be held at the chamber of commerce, starting at 10:00 AM. This will be followed by luncheon at the Bluebird at noon. All members of the Association are urged to attend both the meeting meet-ing and luncheon. Such business matters as the election of board members and the reading of the annual report will be presented. The meeting will be attended by officials from Berkeley and Salt Lake City. |