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Show County Farm News In Brief The trend of farm land purchase in Utah countinues upward, according accord-ing to the Federal Land Bank of Berkeley, reporting on the nine month period from October 1. 1935, to June 30, 1936. The land bank ! and the land bank commissioner have made 70 loans during that time to make the purchase of farms possible in this state. The amount involved was approximately $140,-000. $140,-000. The -percentage of loans closed used to purchase farms in the first six months of the current year was 6.3. In order to show the increase in farm purchase this may be compared com-pared to "ifc of land bank and commissioner com-missioner loans which were used for that purpose in 1933-34. PROGRAM MEETS EMERGENCY "The fact that the country's farmers are carrying out a nationwide nation-wide program aimed at the conservation conser-vation of agricultural resources and of our food and fibre supply is prac-ticlarly prac-ticlarly significant not only to farmers farm-ers themselves, but also to the man who lives in the city", said Secretary Wallace in a recent address. "This is especially true in a year such as this when dry weather accompanied by hot winds did inestimable damage dam-age to the food and feed supply of the nation." "In spite of this damage, however, and because of the agricultural conservation con-servation program now in effect, the nation will have more livestock feed this year than would have been grown if there had been no program. pro-gram. In the first place, the 1936 agricultural conservation program encouraged farmers to shift land used for the production of crops of which there were surpluses into the production of soilconserving and soil-building grasses and legumes. Secondly, when the existence of the current drought became evident, I modifications were made in the program to encourage the planting of more food and feed crops that are drought-resistant. The program, pro-gram, as it is operating now, clearly clear-ly demonstrates that it is designed to provide for a more permanently abundant production of food and feed. Farmers are finding that it is flexible enough to be adapted to meet emergency situations, simultaneously simul-taneously through payments, providing pro-viding a measure of crop income insurance to those who participate. Take the bad years with the good, and it proves itself a stabilizer of agricultural production." The Japanese farmer pays from 31 percent to as high as 51 percent of his income in taxes The Dairymen's Dairy-men's League News. Agriculture has kept pace with industry to an astonishing degree. Between 1910 and 1930, output per worker increased 39 percent in manufacturing and 41 percent in agriculture. In the five years between be-tween 1922 and 1926, one of the most remarkable periods in agricultural agricul-tural history, agricultural production produc-tion increased 27 percent, while crop acreage remained stationary and the amount of labor in agriculture agri-culture decreased. Employed consumers can still buy more food with their present earning earn-ing than they were able to buy in 1928 or 1929, in spite of the record droughts of 1934 and 1936, according to a report received from the Agricultural Agri-cultural Adjustment Administration. Administra-tion. The effect of the drought has been to bring food prices more closely in line with the average of other living costs. An advance of about 50 percent in earnings per employed factory worker during the past 3 years has enabled workers to pay higher food prices to compensate compen-sate farmers in part for their crop failures. o |