| Show ECONOMIST DECLARES UTAH FARM ILLS DUE TO UNWISE LAND USE the development and adoption of wise land programs will solve many of agricultures agri cultures problems dr 0 J wheatley extension economist cono mist told agricultural leaders attending the rece recent nt leadership school held at logan dr wheat ley icy pointed out that too many acres of near marginal land were now being cropped and bringing only low returns to the cultivators shifting this type of land to grass or timber would tend to reduce the production of the currently superabundant farm crops and concentrate the production on oh land chere productive costs are lower and net income to the farmer more satisfactory he contended every state in the union including utah has some land which is just too poor to continue in cultivation ti under present price conditions dit ions dr wheatley declared even possible world war 11 II prices do not seem to warrant continued cultivation of some currently cropped land nor the return of much recently re grassed land back to cultivation keeping out of cultivation the poorer lands and the adoption of sound individual farm management practices on the better land would do much to solve the perplexing and apparently ly long continuing farm problem s however are not en to blame for the continued cultivation of this near marginal land the acono economist mist pointed out unlike other industries agriculture has had to absorb most of its own unemployment problems industry has turned its burden of unemployment over to the government ern ment many farmers are cultivating near marginal land not because they want to but because they would rather take the low returns which this poor land offers than go on relief in fact going on relief so easy for the man on this poor land if the blocked or restricted industrial occupations were opened to those capable and willing to work the intense pressure to cultivate this poor land would subside and the problem of sec euring wise land use would be infinitely more simple dr wheatley said in view of the fact that the government does not assume a proportionate relief burden in an over manned agriculture and because icausi of the artif artificial acial blocking of employment for farm people in much of industry it appears necessary that the federal government substantially subsidize the shifting of poor land into grasses and timber and assume some responsibility for the care of the people thus displaced if this were done and the farmers on the better land adopted more sound in individual divid ual farm management practices dr I 1 wheatley contended that a large part of the perplexing agricultural problem will have been solved |
