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Show Grassland Is Subject Of 1948 USDA Yearbook "Our goal is permanency in agriculture an agriculture that is stable and secure for farm and and farmer, consistent in prices and earnings; an agriculture that can satisfy indefinitely all our needs of food, fiber, and shelter in keeping with the living liv-ing standards we set. Everybody has a stake in a permanent agriculture." ag-riculture." This is the opening statement in an introduction to "Grass," the 1948 yearbook of agriculture, pubished by the U S. Dept. of Agriculture. The introduction to the 900-page book is written by P. V. Cardon, former director of the Utah State Agricultural Experiment Ex-periment Station, now head of the federal Agricultural Research Re-search Administration. "This yearbook of agriculture for 1948 is something that many Utah farmers and farm agency people should be interested in reading," says Dr. Carl Frisch-knecht. Frisch-knecht. USAC Extension Service director. Because of the importance of natural forage on the foothills and ranges in Utah, this yearbook year-book should be especially interesting in-teresting to Utahns, as it includes in-cludes a discussion of grassland problems and practices, includ-I includ-I ing pastures, mountain ranges and forage crops. Several sections sec-tions of the book deal with Utah grassland conditions. Authors of the book include several Utahns or former Utahns who are nationally recognized in their agricultural fields. It is suggested that you write to your congressman or the superintendent su-perintendent of documents. Wash.,25, D. C, for a copy of the yearbook. |