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Show AAA Aiding Ranchers To Improve Forage On Their E,angeland j Gras and bow to get more oi it on .'.aiipeti; county ranches .:: ;:) important piobl' in con-Lrohl.ng con-Lrohl.ng 1 anthers, accoid.nR to E. 1-. Ami; I. .011, clia.iinan ol the coi.nty AAA. committee. He uointi d out tnat on pio'ately-ijVfio' pio'ately-ijVfio' 1 aii;,e. jr:d, t..- AAA 1 l;an;e C00..1 rvalion p:oj;ra.;i is a di.'ig ranchers 111 i.'-yeul ways .0 .ncri ase the amount o lorage 'or. tho.r ranches. lie said that perhaps tie; most popular in' ti:od in use lor in-t.ii in-t.ii a.ijiig li:e amount of trass on .. anpi te County ranches :s de-i de-i ein. J I'ra.'.in;:. Tms in -mod is . n p.y lo let na.uie re-seed the l..inl3e by the rancher keeping his i i:i.tocl: 011 the range during the ! , 1 odsct is of seed. In this way ..u.-e craii.c:; resced the section i.l ia.ie kept from being grazed. Ur:d.r the 1910 AAA. program, ai.ch-rs may qualify for 75 per-...11L per-...11L o. tne.r 1 ange-building al- o.v;.:.ce iv df.:rr.ng 25 percent ;o. the r range. They may earn ; .his allowance by carrying out 1 .-applemrntai practices sucn as I viic.ng, wwed control, rodent con- :ol and measures to prevent : srosion. Another method of increasing the grass on rangeland is to re-seed re-seed the range to adapted grasses, by mechanical or artifcial means, i Payments under the range pro-igram pro-igram help to pay a part of the I cost of the seed. j Contour furrowing, spreader I dams and other means of presenting pre-senting runoff held to increase i the growth of grass on the range, j'lhe water is held back to support ; the growth of vegetation instead jof being allowed to carry away the topsoil of the range, Mr. Anderson said. |