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Show Farm Holes ! f CtfaUndnBox Elder counties ? 5 . J,f been selected as the two W haTftieS In Utah to have a Fed- c0r7ov Insurance Program In 1 i&8 According to Wm O Lar-i1 Lar-i1 chairman of the Duchesne fi'ntv ACA committee, this M Ss that all crop insurance r tracts in other counties in ? Senate will be terminated at Z end of this year. Only 200 counties in the Unit-j Unit-j ctates will have a crop in-stance in-stance program in 1948. Over , 900 counties having wheat in.-Z in.-Z trance this year had to be drooped to conform with the 200 county limitation set by Con-lb Con-lb pess. hS The crop insurance programs i? in Juab and Box Elder counties fi will be carried on an cxperimen-Z cxperimen-Z tal basis. The future develop-)H develop-)H merit of the crop insurance pro-S pro-S cram will depend on how the J program is carried out in the Ved 200 experimental counties. . XCP Practices For &. irrigaled Areas citj Farmers in the irrigated areas k of Duchesne county should begin now to plan use this fall of the ma practices under the Agricultural Conservation Program (ACP) Eaa will ' help them improve their irrigation systems, Chair-fc Chair-fc man Larscn of the county Agri-ecU Agri-ecU cultural Conservation Commit-ito! Commit-ito! tec points out. One of the practices that 5 e farmers may utilize is the re- organization of irrigation sys-it sys-it tems, he said. This includes the building of small irrigation reser-3 reser-3 voirs, check dams, Vjfiirs, drops, installation of pipelines and siphons, si-phons, and construction or enlargement en-largement of permanent ditches, laterals and dikes. Other practices prac-tices are leveling land, lining ditches and reservoirs, and constructing con-structing drainage ditches. These practices are included in the ACP to help farmers to conserve and make more effective effec-tive use of available water. Much land under irrigation has been damaged in the past by irrigation irriga-tion methods that have leached and washed away the top soil. Irrigation practices are in the program to provide farmers with assistance in improving their irrigation ir-rigation facilities to prevent this loss. They also conserve water and help farmers to make better use of their land. In some instances, farmers were not able to carry out these practices during the spring and early summer due to the suspension of the program during that period, he said. These farmers will now be able to complete these practices and should begin their planning early, he stated. Farmers may obtain additional addition-al information and rates of payment pay-ment for these practices from their County Agricultural Conservation Con-servation office at Roosevelt. Farm Production While the nation's farms this year will probably produce a relatively large aggregate production pro-duction of all crops, the uncertain uncer-tain corn crop continues to hold the key to continued record food output according to the August 1 crop report of the Bureau of Agricultural Ag-ricultural Economics. Most of the largest winter wheat crop in history had been harvested by August 1. Total production including both winter and spring is now estimated at 1,427,747,000 bushels and is 272 million bushels above last year's record crop. Winter wheat esti- mates showed a slight increase over the July 1 report, but spring wheat, due to lack of rain and heat acoss the Northern Plains, shows an estimated decline of 11 13 million bushels from the earlier prediction. Spring wheat production still shows an increase in-crease of 50 million bushels over last year's 281 million bushel crop. Winter wheat is now figured fig-ured at 1,095 million bushels. The nation's total agricultural I production as of August 1 is estimated es-timated at 2 per cent above the 1942-46 average and only 2 per cent below the record volume produced last year. This large total production is built up from a record volume of food grains, an above average outrun of-feed, grains, relatively large tonnages of oilseed crops, as well as a heavy production of fruits, vegetables vege-tables and special crops. Record crops of wheat, rice, peaches and grapes are in the offing. Relatively Rela-tively heavy production is estimated esti-mated for flaxseed, soybeans, buckwheat, tobacco, peanuts, sugarcane, sugar beets, pears, citrus cit-rus and truck crops. Above average av-erage estimates are indicated for corn, hay, oats, barley, sorghum grains, beans, peas and apples, i Rye and cotton, while below av-jerage, av-jerage, are well above 1946 production. pro-duction. Potatoes and sweet potatoes po-tatoes are below last year. Farmers Build Dams A plow furrow on the farm of John Landry, Logan County, Nebraska, started it. Twenty-five Twenty-five years of washing turned the furrow into a gully more than 150 feet deep that was rapidly cutting several farms to pieces, burying several hundred acres under subsoil carried by the rushing waters. Individuals who were being harmed could do nothing alone. They talked to their county Agricultural Ag-ricultural Conservation Committee. Commit-tee. A plan was drawn up to put in 4 dams and a diversion terrace. The committee said that ACP could help but that the major ma-jor share of the cost would have to be shared by those directly benefited. The farmers got the county to come in because stop ping tne erosion would cut down expense of maintaining roads. The terrace and a draw-down tube have been put in and the 4 dams constructed. The largest of the dams required 7500 yards of dirt. . . the smallest took 1600 yards. It cost in all $4500, with farmers and the county standing about two-thirds of the bill. Now, the county committee reports, re-ports, the gradual back process is starting. . the gully is gradually grad-ually filling with silt. . . o bottom lands are being pestered to their former high" productivity, producti-vity, ' |
