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Show Farm Conservation Report Prices of Many Seeds Up Retail prices of field seeds, including in-cluding those of many crops important im-portant in conservation, varied markedly on February 15 from those of a year ago, reports of 1400 seed dealers to the U. S. Department of Agriculture indicate. indi-cate. Prices of such widely used legumes as alfalfa, white and sweet clover, were higher than usual. Those lower priced were red and alsike clover and lespe-deza, lespe-deza, Kentucky bluegrass, orchard-grass, orchard-grass, redtop, smooth brome, timothy, tim-othy, ryegrass and crested wheat-grass wheat-grass were all higher in price. Sudan grass and millet were lower. In the State of Utah common alfalfa was offered at retail, according ac-cording to the report, at $65 per hundred pounds. Alfalfa of improved im-proved varieties, such as Buffalo, Ranger, Grimm, Ladak and others, oth-ers, brought $75 a hundred. While clovor used mostlv in Das- turcs, brought $1.30 a pound. The new giant white clover, La-dino, La-dino, was selling at $2.25 a pound.. Sweet clover seed sold for $22 a hundred. Red clover, one of the most popular legumes for inclusion in short-time crop rotations, was selling in Utah at $60 per hundred hun-dred pounds. Timothy, commonly used in a mixture with clover, was selling in mid-February at $25 per hundred hun-dred pounds. Smooth brome grass, becoming popular in all parts of the country as a companion com-panion of alfalfa, sold for $45 a hundred. Orchard grass was bringing $35 a hundred pounds and redtop 00c a pound. Crested wheatgrass was bringing $62 a hundred, Recommendations for 1950 ACP Farmers of Duchesne county i now have an opportunity to cooperate co-operate in the 1950 Agricutural Conservation Program to cooperate co-operate by making recommendations recommenda-tions on practices and provisions provis-ions that should go into the 1950 ACP. Douglas Bertoch, Chairman of the Duchesne county Agricultural Agricul-tural Conservation Committee, says that the county committee has received a request from J. Vcrn Hopkin. chairman of the Utah Production and Marketing Administration committee, for recommendations for the 1950 Agricultural Conservation Program. Pro-gram. Mr. Bertoch said the committee commit-tee has talked to many farmers about the program and is aware of general farmer approval as it is. But. he said, the committee wants farmers to make a careful care-ful study of the program in the light of current conditions. Recommendations must be sent to the State Production and Marketing Administration office of-fice by April 11, 1949. In making recommendations for new practices or changes in the ones we've had. the county chairman said that the objectives of the program should be kept in mind to assist farmers in carrying out needed soil and wa- I ter conservation that would not be carried out without program assistance. The chairman stressed the point that committeemen and farmers have a responsibility I to the rest of the country to use program funds to get all conservation conser-vation possible for each dollar spent. ACP Drainage Practices Assistance will be provided farmers of Duchesne county under un-der the 1949 Agricultural Conservation Con-servation Program for installing or improving drainage systems, according to the Duchesne County Coun-ty , Agricultural Conservation committee. This assistance is available for both open drainage ditches and for closed drains where tile and fiber pipe are used. No assistance assist-ance will be given for cleaning or maintaining a drainage ditch. The assistance as with the average for other Agricultural Conservation Program practices will be about 50 per cent of the "out-of-pocket" cost of the practices. Farmers may cooperate under a pooling agreement to get the job done. Under such agreements several farmers pool the assistance assist-ance provided under the program to carry on a mutual project. Details may be obtained at the county Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion office in Roosevelt. The earlier plans for pooling agreements are presented to the county Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion Association office, the better the chance for approval. |