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Show Farm Conservation Report I Farmers Expected io Maintain Conservation Practices Farmers of Duchesne county should understand that when they carry out conservation practices prac-tices under the Agricultural Conservation Con-servation Program, they arc expected ex-pected to maintain, or keep up, these practices. That is part of the responsibility accepted when assistance is received to help carry out the practice. In explaining this provision I of the ACP, Joseph Wilcken, 'chairman of the county Agricul-j Agricul-j tural Conservation Committee, said that sometimes farmers get !the idea that, after the work is 'done one year and the payment received, there is no further responsibility. res-ponsibility. ,Mr. Wilcken pointed out that under the provisions of the program, pro-gram, if the county committee finds that any conservation practice prac-tice carried out under a previous year's program has not been I maintained in accordance with good farming practices, or if its (effectiveness has been destroyed by neglect or failure to keep up the practice, deductions may- be made from the current year's assistance as-sistance earned under the program. pro-gram. The purpose of the Agricultur- i al Conservation Program is to conserve soil and water and not to make payments to farmers, 'the county committeeman emphatically em-phatically stated. And while all farmers have a responsibility to the Nation to conserve their farm land, farmers cooperating in the ACP have the additional responsibility respon-sibility of safeguarding the investment in-vestment the Nation has made in conservation through the program pro-gram assistance. Most farmers do maintain these practices, the chairman said, but for those few farmers who do not, the provision for deductions was set up. x More Fall Pigs Requested Farmers are being urged to boost pig production this fall by 10 per cent at least, more if possible. Goals suggested to States, therefore, call for an av- erage increase of 13 per cent. A 10 per cent increase would mean about 34.4 million pigs, 3 million j more than were produced last fall. j Prices of feed grains are expected ex-pected to be somewhat lower in the 1948-49 feeding year, beginning begin-ning next October. At the same time, prospects are that continued contin-ued large consumer demands and smaller output of other meats in 1949 will keep hog prices relatively rela-tively high. Growing Grass Heart Of Range Conservation Getting the range to" produce all the grass it will with .the soil and moisture available is a major ma-jor objective of the Agricultural Conservation Program in Duchesne Du-chesne county, says the County Agricultural Conservation committee. com-mittee. Every rancher knows that the amount of grass on the range determines de-termines how much beef, lamb, or wool he has to sell. Likewise, the grass determines whether rain soaks into the ground or rushes down to the river. If that moisture is led into the ground, it may be used by the plants to produce feed, or it may find its way into underground channels and ultimately into the streams that drain the range. Of course. the grass holds the soil tightly, so that neither rain nor winds can get hold of it and move it away. All of these things of course lead to permanence . . . permanence perma-nence in holding the soil, permanence per-manence of feed, and, therefore, permanence of the range cattle or sheep business, the committee observed. Box Elder Conservation Story "Cooperation with AAA has helped solve my conservation problems," says Lloyd Hansen, of Corinne. "I operate an 80 acre dairy farm that is located three miles west of Corinne, in the Corinne Drainage District. "When I moved onto this farm 7 years ago, only 15 acres had been broken out of sagebrush. Each year I would break up new land and level the fields as best I could with what equipment I had. By trial and error. I eventually event-ually had approximately half of my farm under irrigation, 'Two years ago when I was sighing my AAA papers, I was telling the county committee how hard I had worked each year getting my conservation work I done. They told me assistance could be obtained that included engineering services from the AAA, I replied that I understood that was only made available to the larger operators in the county who hired large, expensive expen-sive equipment to do the work. But the county committee as- -sured me that all who cooperated in the AAA program were qualified quali-fied to receive those services whether the job was contracted or done with the farmers' own equipment. The. only requirement require-ment that the AAA requested was to complete the job according accord-ing to specifications. The next day I was helping survey 12 acres of new land to be leveled and brought under irrigation on my farm. I did the work with my own tractor-drawn scraper and planted the field to corn. When I irrigated the corn I was well satisfied with my leveling job. There was no trial and error to this type of leveling. I am leveling level-ing 5 acres more this spring and intend doing 15 next year. All of my farm will then have been leveled. I maintain that this type of assistance is a real paying proposition pro-position and every farmer should take advantage of it. "I am being advised by the AAA committee to seed part of my farm into good legume grass pastures, in order to maintain and improve my farm. I intend starting on this kind of a project." |