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Show Farm Conservation Report More Gallons to the Acre Milk, That Is According to Mr. Bertoch, chairman of the Duchesne County Coun-ty Agricultural Conservation committee, the real test of pasture pas-ture improvement in dairy areas is the increase in milk production produc-tion per acre. The primary purpose of pasture pas-ture improvement practices under un-der the Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion Program is to check erosion and depletion of the soil, he advises. ad-vises. But one of the best indications indi-cations that the program is effective ef-fective is an infcrease in the amount of feed and this in turn results in an increase in milk production. Here in Duchesne county, many dairymen report that Agricultural Ag-ricultural Conservation Program practices seeding approved pasture pas-ture mixtures and using phosphate phos-phate and other minerals have increased pasture carrying capacity ca-pacity and the length of the grazing graz-ing period. This vpar. Tastiirp imnrnvpd through conservation practices have held up materially better than those unimproved. The shift to Ladino clover and other clovers has contributed materially ma-terially to the increase, but this is made possible by a combination combina-tion of good conservation practices. prac-tices. Such pasture improvement has a double value. The chairman chair-man points out; the land is used to meet production needs 'and at the same time is being improved for future production. Who Elects Farmer Committeemen? Here in Duchesne county farmers arc faced with important decisions concerning acreage adjustment, ad-justment, crop loans and other price support efforts, conservation conserva-tion and many other phases of the nation's production and marketing mar-keting program. With the increase in work and responsibility, Bertoch again calls attention to the fact that the committeemen who make these decisions are elected by the . farmers. Each year, elections elec-tions are held in each farming community and the time is approaching ap-proaching when farmers will elect' their committeemen for 1950 "It is of the utmost importance impor-tance that the committeemen elected truly represent the farmers farm-ers of the community," says chairman Bertoch. "Although elections are still several months away, it is not too early for farmers to give serious thought to whom they want to administer the various farm programs in 1950. If the present committeemen are doing the job all right, they are entitled enti-tled to a vote of confidence. If they are not now is the time to give careful consideration to replacements. "Committeemen are farmers elected by farmers to do a vital job of administering the Agricultural Agri-cultural Conservation and related re-lated programs. In the aftermath after-math of war, their decisions will affect the operations of every farmer in the county." Save Grass and Legume Seed Mr. Bertoch appealed to the farmers of Duchesne county to use greater care in harvesting grass and legume seed this year. He called attention to the need for increased supplies of most grass and legume seeds for the seeding of acres diverted from crops which are under adjustment. adjust-ment. These currently include wheat and potatoes. Rather than leave . land idle to grow weeds and wash and blow away, it should be seeded to grass and legumes in areas where this is possible, the chair: man advises. Often the resulting income from this land is equal to returns from the crops form-1 form-1 erly grown there. And when this land is so used, reserves of fertility fer-tility are built up in the soil for future production'. As a vital part of this effort, the chairman stresses the need for more grass and legume seed. To this end he urges farmers to harvest more grass and legume seed and to use every means to save the greatest possible amount of seed in harvesting operations. Mr. Bertoch said that often the amount of seed harvested can be more than doubled by greater care in harvesting with a corresponding increased financial fi-nancial return to the farmer. The simple matter of plugging leaks in the combine or thresher and in the screens will often save much seed, the chairman suggests. |