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Show Farm Notes Committee Elections About 750 Duchesne county farmers are eligible to vote in the three community elections to be held in the county between I December 1 and December 9 according to Wm. O. Larscn chairman of the county Triple-A Triple-A Committee. The local elections are to choose regular and alternate community farmer - committeemen committee-men and also delegates to a county convention where mem- m? .of .the county committee will be elected. The committeemen arc responsible res-ponsible for administering several sev-eral Government farm programs, pro-grams, including the Agricultural Agricul-tural Conservation Program A-mong A-mong ACP duties are determination determin-ation of the conservation practices prac-tices for which assistance is of-' fered, and allocation among1 farmers of funds for conser-j conser-j vation needs. Committeemen have helped Duchesne county farmers carry out extensive ACP soil-building and soil-conserving practices on their farms this year. Most widely used practices advocated by the committee has been the. reorganization of irrigation dis-i tricts and the use of phosphate on farm lands. Egg Production Farm egg production during September 1946, was 4 percent below last year, although a large out-of-storage movement of both shell and frozen eggs brought total supplies above the level of the same month in 1945. After November, egg prices are expected to declitie s easonally and may be at support levels by early 1947, the USDA indicates. indi-cates. ACP Helps N. D. Farmer Thirty acres of good tillable land for $10 an acre isn't a bad buy these days. In effect, that's iust the kind of bargain Frank Heath of Sargent county, North Dakota, "found" for himself on his own place this year. Heath's farm was pockmarked by 32 potholes. He recovered 30 acres simply by draining 30 of the potholes into two big boles, winding up with a pair of year round stockwater reservoirs reser-voirs as well as extra land. Besides, Be-sides, his field work is easier and he saves himself time formerly for-merly spent in rounding up an extra tractor to drag out his own mired machinery. Heath got the job done by a series of dynamited and machine-excavated ditches which followed natural nat-ural drainage contours wherever practical. Paj-t of the $320 which the project cost was carried car-ried by the Agricultural Conservation Con-servation Program. Before Heath started draining the potholes, they cut up the two acres of his farm so badly that fencing was impracticable. Spring field work was sometimes some-times impossible. Decision to do something about it came after Heath begancounting the number num-ber of times he turned to maneuver man-euver around potholes. Each time he turned, hementally figured fig-ured out the acreage he was forced to leave idle to provide turning space. The total amount amazed him and prompted him to do something about it. Heath reports that his project pro-ject has already paid' for Itself, pointing to an excellent field of barley which this. year made 35 to 40 bushels on a piece of land that had been G feet under water since 1936. Many Crop Hazards That "57 varieties'? isn't reserved re-served for pickles it also stands for the number of natural hazards haz-ards that drew Federal all-risk crop insurance indemnities last year. In 1945, insured farmers received loss paments when their crops were damaged by 19 different weather conditions, 16 kinds of insects, 11 plant diseases, dis-eases, ' and 8 different weeds. The protection also included losses caused by fire and wild h"-Hs and animals. All unavoidable unavoid-able naural hazards are included n Drotoction under Federal all risk crop insurance. Farm Price Index Rises Parity compilations by USDA show that prices received by yr-ri jumd 30 points during dur-ing the month ending October 15 to 273 per cent of the 1910-U 1910-U average At the same time, prices paid by farmers rose 7 points, reaching 207 percent of the pre-Warld War I base period. Shortage Reemphasized That world suDnlies of fats and oils during 1946 arc far short of meeting reouirements hss been reemphasized by the International Emergency Food Council. Import requirements submitted to IEFC totaled over 4.6 million long tons, in terms of oil, while supplies' are less than 2.5 million. Meet in December A national garden conference 'o make plans for '1947 has been called for December 5 and 6 the Department of Agriculture announced. "Gardens for Food,-Health Food,-Health and Good Living" will , be the general theme of the con-1 ference program. The program will include talks on. domestic and world food situations and panel-discussions on major garden gar-den and horticultural problems. Molasses Coming for . Livestock A cargo of Cuban black strap molasses totaling 1,400,000 gallons gal-lons will be sold to manufac turers for the production of cubes and . pellets for range livestock feeding. The Cuban molasses is in addition ' to a shipment of 1,400,000 gallons of Puerto Rican black strap obtained ob-tained by USDA in September for the same purpose. Practically Practi-cally all of the Puerto Rican shipment " has been sold. No other use will be considered for the Cuban. molasses because of the small quantity available for distribution and the urgent need for protein supplements for range feeding. A world food survey released by the FOA indicates that half of the people in the world had fewer than 2,250 calories a day during the last half of the 1930's. Only about a thi.rd had 2,800 or more calories a day. Civilian Production Administration Admin-istration figures indicate potash for farm fertilizer will approximate approx-imate 742,000 tons for the year ending June 30, 1947, compared with about 725,000 tons last year. v |