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Show i Farm Notes Corn Crop Prospects Down Dry hot weather throughout the Corn Belt, coming at a time when corn was in the critical silking stage, has reduced prospects pros-pects of this year's crop to 2,437 million bushels.-This1 is a drop of 223 million below prospective prospec-tive production -'on1-August 1, I about 202 million bushels bellow be-llow average, and the smallest since 1936. The 1946 corn crop set new records at 3,288 million bushels. On August 15, farmers in the States producing about three-fourths three-fourths of the total crop reported that 65 per cent of the crop was silked. Assuming from 7 to 8 weeks as the time from silking to maturity, at least! two-thirds of the crop would be matured on or before October 10 2 Turkey Price Supports Available September:! Because , present high feed prices may cause many producers produ-cers to market their turkeys earlier than usual, the Government's Govern-ment's price support prpgram for turkeys will be ready for operation opera-tion on September 1 Instead of a month later, as originally planned. plan-ned. The program will operate, through January 31, 1948. Purchases will be limited to turkeys purchased and dressed after August 30, at prices reflecting reflect-ing a national average of 90 per cent of the August' 15 parity price. Prices will be announced around September 1. Farmers. Ranchers Urged To Complete Stock Water Dams Under ACP Many farmers and ranchers in Duchesne county have not as yet completed the construction of stock water dams they signed up to build under the Agricultural Agricul-tural Conservation Program i (ACP), Chairman Wm. Q Larsen' of the Cqunty Agricultural Con-. eeryation Committee points out. The next few weeks will be excellent ones for this type of work, he stated. The county has need for many more stock water dams than are now on the range and pasture land, Stock water dams are an important factor in conserving grass cover on the land. When a range . or pasture has numerous small stock water dams, grazing is much more evenly distributed and the overgrazing over-grazing that results when water supplies are limited is held to a minimum. These dams also help to decrease water-washing of the soil- They hold and store up water from flash floods and help prevent serious gully erosion. ero-sion. Last year under the ACP, about 100 stock water dams were built in the county. About 150 will be built this year. Chairman Chair-man Larsen estimated. Since the program began, nearly 750 dams have been built in the county. However, a recent survey made by the county committee shows that the county should have at least 1000 more dams than it now has. Information and payment rates for this practice can be obtained at the county office in Roosevelt. Several contractors are now building dams in the county, and the county office can provide pro-vide their locations to ranchers and farmers who wish to get in touch with them. Pasture Programs Recommended By Feed Qommitteq Development of improved pasture pas-ture functions for different areas of the county Is a basic research problem, according to recommendations recom-mendations of the Feed Advisory Advi-sory Committee for consideration considera-tion under the Research and Marketing Act of 1946. Purpose of such research would be to make pastures more complete and dependable in providing pro-viding nutrients necessary for livestock kept on individual farms. A 25 per cent increase in the acreage of legumes and grasses is necessary for a balanced bal-anced agriculture, the committee says. This suggestion is in line with recommendations for farm practices prac-tices throughout the -Nation. Under the Agricultural Conservation Conser-vation Program, green manure and cover crop practices have increased at least .65 per cent over those completed under prewar pre-war programs. 'Old Dobbin' Numbers Decline There are now almost one-fourth one-fourth fewer horses in the world than before the war. Horses numbered 75.2 million in 1946, abou,t 19.5 million below the 1934-38 average. Reasons for the decline from 1938 to 1946 are mechanization of agriculture in certain areas, including the U. S., and wartime war-time losses in devastated areas, i The largest decline from prewar pre-war occurred' in the Soviet Union, Un-ion, where numbers in 1946 were 49 per cent below the 1934-38 averuge. Instead of the Prewar 16 per cent, the Soviet Union last year had about 10 per cent of the world's horses. Europe still retains 24 per cent of the world's total, although al-though numbers there have declined de-clined 21 per cent below prewar. |