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Show News In Brief Sixty-seven per cent, or more than 283,000,000 acres, of the total crop land in the United States was cove ed by applications for grants made by farmers under the 1936 agricultural conservation program of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Ad-ministration, according to the annual an-nual report cf H. R. Tolley, Admin-ist Admin-ist ator. Approximately 3,000,000 applicants, representing perhaps 4,000,000 farmers and based on more than 4,200,000 worksheets, were signed under the program. The bud-grraft long used in propagating fruit and nut trees is being used by the United States Department cf A J iculture to propagate pro-pagate evergreens. At the F. rest Service Experiment Station in California are several new seedling crosses grafted successfully to Pon-dercsa Pon-dercsa pine rootstccks. Forest tree breeding has developed slowly because be-cause it was thought that evergreens, ever-greens, such as pine and fir, must be grown from the seed. Slaughter supplies of sheep and lambs probably will continiu larger larg-er than a year earlier, until at least September, according to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. . Utah will harvest tomatoes from 6,600 acres this year as compared to 6,800 acres last year, according to estimates by the Bureau of Agricultural Ag-ricultural Economics. The pea acreage ac-reage is 14,600 acres this year and was 12,700 acres in 1936. This year 980 acres of snap beans will be harvested as compared to 700 acres last year. Tire Utah winter wheat forecast for this harvest is 2,726,000 bushels. |