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Show SPEEDING UP PRDDUGTIDN OF WHEAT One billion bushels of wheat in 1918 with less acreage planted than in 1017 is the object of a campaign just launched among fnrmers of the fltate by J. W. Paxman, specialist in dry farming at the Utah Agricultural college, who was in Salt Laku City a few (lays ago to confer with officials of the food administration. The state's quota of increase is 1,000,000 bushols. Ho states that in order that the United States and the allies have the food that they demand for the coming year, every method aiming at increased production will have to be tried by the formers. Points to be emphasized em-phasized arc better cultural methods and an increased acreage of spring wheat. Both means of gaining the desired end must be employed, em-ployed, soys Paxman, otherwise the 1918 crop might be even lesi than the 1917 crop and the condition instead of being relieved made more acuta than at any time since the war begon. At the conference of extension workers at the Logan college I'axman stated that the assignments of increased acreage hove been made for the counties. Beaver, 100 acres; Box Elder, 3000; Cache, -1000; Emery, 100; Iron, 3000; Millard, 2000; Morgan, 200; Salt Lake, 2000; Son Juan, 1000 ; Sanpete, COO; Summit, COO; Tooele, 300; Utah, 3000; Wasatch, 100, and Weber, GOO. Vital factors neccssory for the increased production, according to Paxman, Pax-man, aro the planting of nil new lands under irrigation to wheat. All dry farms held in fallow during 1917, nnd farms that failed to produce crops should be planted to wheat. A reasonable percentage percent-age of fall plowed land on dry farms where favorable conditions exist nnd the rainfall is above fourteen inches should be plnntcd to wheat, Paxman regards the use of cultipockers beneficial in preparing the seed bed nnd for going over the winter wheat for the purpose of packing the soil particles snugly around the tender rootlets nnd providing a mulch against the escape of moisture. This should be done early in the spring. |