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Show Planning Boards Suggest Programs to Help Farmers ; Planning boards of Utah counties coun-ties recognize a serious problem in the pressure of population on agricultural agri-cultural land. Dr. O. J. Wheailey. extension economist at Utah State! Ag icultural college, commented recently after reviewing planning board reports. Principal duties of planning boards are to find means of efficient effic-ient ctop and livestock production, means cf increasing irrigation water wa-ter supplies in Utah, and ways to increase the incomes and vocational epportuities cf farm families. I Responses to replies on inventory j questionnaires have caused boa', d 1 members to believe that decrease in j the rural population would be de-; de-; siretible, but that decrease should 1 t-e brought about by transferring farmi workers to local industry. Questionnaires have indicated !arg numbers cf farm families on relief roics, cf farm1 families needing ad-iitioh?! ad-iitioh?! sources of income inde- pendent of farm resources, and of ! -y: ting married couples needing j homes and means cf livlihood to enable thorn to live independent of relatives. Foa'o farms are desirable from the standpoint of soil conservation and long-time rural welfare. Development De-velopment of irrigation projects to assure a reliable water supply to lar d al 'eao!y under cultivation is proposed. More economical use of water !o conserve soil fertility and preserve soil bacteria as well as insure in-sure optimum) production is desirable desir-able in many counties. Reservoirs, either large or small, should not otst more than the value of water impounded. Transferring of water fiom marginal or submarginal land to that of greater productivity and oranste ring it from steep or otherwise other-wise unfavorable surfaces where water cannot be used economically is also advisable, planning board members have, indicated. Other recommendations are that raising of more intensified crops to Efcsorb available labor and assure greate cash income, eradication cf a'l noxious weeds, us: of more commercial fertilizers and application applica-tion of all barnyard manure available avail-able to soils, proper rotations, planting plant-ing of only pure clean seed, moderate mod-erate increases in meat and dairy o.trimals. maintaining of larg? et-ough flocks of heavy chekens for heme needs and increase in number num-ber cf chickens for commercial purposes pur-poses where passible, raising of better bet-ter grad: of livestock, and improve ment of farm buildings and yards for the Increase cf the scenic aU t. actions of the state. |
