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Show M Food Program Manager Named ri w Wm O. Larson, Chairman of the Duchesne county AAA Com-ss Com-ss Sittee has been designated by v pcretary of Agriculture Clinton p Anderson as manager of , Emergency Food Program for ;t'ij Duchesne County. I rt As manager of the Emergency Food Program, Mr. Larson has been directed to enlist the co-'M co-'M nneration of the county USDA Council and to work with this H council in setting up specific conservation goals, to work out ' locally adopted conservation ; measures, and to marshall the " forces of citizens' organizations s and food trades to carry out the i measures of the program on a voluntary basis. ' In designating Mr. Larson as manager of the Duchesne county Emergency Food Program, Sec- retary Anderson said, "Millions . i- of our fellow beings in other j 3 lands face prospects of starvation in spite of help given so far and look to this country for immed-. iate aid. Voluntary conservation -i by America is essential." ' I President's Appeal President Truman puts the problem of aiding the starving millions aboard squarely up to each of us. "AS YOUR PRESI-' PRESI-' DENT, I appeal to you again and to Americans everywhere to prove your faith and your belief be-lief in the teachings of God by doing yourshare to save the starving millions in Europe and Asia and Africa. Share your food by eating less, and prevent millions mil-lions from dying of starvation. Reduce your abundance so that others may have a crust of bread." The Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture advises that immediate action must be taken to reduce the current heavy rate of livestock live-stock feeding if critical needs for grain for human consumption in other parts of the world are to be met and the danger of excessive livestock liquidation avoided in this country. Market Your Wheat To Save Lives Farmers in wheat-producing areas are being urged by their AAA committeemen to move their wheat to market just as fast as local transportation will take it. The wheat is needed to save lives in other countries. Market news reports indicate a large movement of wheat reaching terminals, but interior stations report little marketing of wheat by farmers. The need is so great for the wheat that farmers are urged to "sweep out their bins" and send this life-giving grain on its way to do its part in relieving famine conditions aboard. Poultry Prices Supported The Government price-support program now in effect for dressed dress-ed chickens is designed to help poultrymcn market their chickens chick-ens at a fair price in the present feed emergency. Under the program, the Government Gov-ernment will buy dressed chickens chick-ens from cooperatives, dealers, and processors at prices designed to reflect a U. S. farm price for live chickens of not less than 90 percent of parity. Currently, this will mean support for live poultry at a U. S. average farm price of 13.3 cents a pound, with variations vari-ations for type, weight, and location. loca-tion. No support, however, will be given for young chickens weighing less than 3V2 pounds a-livc a-livc (broilers). The public is being 1 asked to eat lots of chicken. The faster poultry is consumed. th more feed will be saved, and the better prices poultry producers will receive. Four zones have been established under the purchase pur-chase program in recognition of usual freight differentials between be-tween areas of production and larger consumer markets. Support Rates For Utah Are As Follows: Young chickens producer average av-erage support prices (over 3V pounds live weight), 19V& cents; Grade A young chickens (New York style, dressed weight over 36 pounds net per box of 12 birds), 2914 cents; Grade B young chickens (New York style dressed weight over 36 pounds net per box of 12 birds), 2734 cents. Fowl producer average support sup-port prices (over 4V& pounds live weight), 18 cents; Grade A fowl (New York style dressed (weighing (weigh-ing over 48 pounds net per box of 12 birds), 26 y2 cents; Grade B. fowl (New York style dressed weighing 48 pounds per box of 12 birds), 25 cent.s Fowl producer average support sup-port price (live weight from 3V2 to 4Vi pounds), I6V2 cents; Grade A fowl (New York style dressed weighing from 36 to 48 pounds net per box of 12 birds) 25 cents; Grade B. fowl (New York style dressed weighing from 36 to 48 pounds net per box of 12 birds), 23 Vz cents. Improve Your Pasture With the feed situation in for a progressive tightening as the emergency em-ergency program to relieve the world food crisis gathers momentum, mo-mentum, farmers in all parts of the country will want to plan more extensively than ever for feed supplements and pasture improvements. Their plans should give serious consideration to the AAA conservation conser-vation practices that produce more and better pastures. Utah farmers can improve their pastures pas-tures by the use of phosphate and by seeding and reseeding. Payments Pay-ments will be made through the AAA program to assist in seeding pastures with ladion clover, white Dutch clover, strawberry clover, alsike clover, red clover, indian rice grass, orchard grass, Kentucky blue grass, tall meadow mead-ow oat grass, meadow fescue, Hubam clover, crested, slender and western wheat grass, smooth the mountain brome, perennial rye, bulbous blue, sand drop seed and other perennial grasses and perennial legumes approved by the State AAA Committee. This approach will get both immediate and future feed results. re-sults. Indications now are that feed will be "tight" throughout 1947. Both sides of the problem can be helped through increased use of the pasture improvement practices of the Agricultural Conservation Program. In all sections of the country, this is the time to plan and in some areas the time for action is close at hand. , These AAA conservation practice prac-tice result in more effective use of pasture and the conservation of grain feed. Some, of course, will produce more immediate returns re-turns than others, but all contribute con-tribute toward greater pasture resources in the years just ahead. Other practical suggestions to implement the over-all drive for feed conservation include saving feed grains by getting herds out earlier on better pastures and keeping them there longer, and maintaining needed milk production pro-duction by better pastures while saving on feed grains. SCS Conservation News The newlj'-elected supervisors of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Conser-vation District met last Thursday and elected J. Heber Allrcd as chairman. They accepted a grant of several pieces of equipment from the Soil Conservation Service Serv-ice and decided to sell most of it to obtain funds for some smaller oieces of equipment such as land levelers and cement mixers. A Fordson tractor and an Overland scraper which are being be-ing loaned to the District by the Soil Conservation Service are being be-ing used by Heber Allred for land leveling on his farm this week. John Swenson, a soil specialist, special-ist, has moved to Roosevelt to work with the District in preparing pre-paring land capability maps and making special soil investigations. investiga-tions. His services will be made available to farmers and ranchers ranch-ers throughout the District according ac-cording to applications received. Francis Todd, SCS engineer from Duchesne is staking, for land leveling, a portion of the Bruce Fitzgerald farm being farmed by Hugh Murray. Mr. Murray plans to do the leveling this spring with the Ford-Ferguson equipment. Any farmer interested inter-ested in seeing this equipment work may visit Mr. Murray's farm sometime during the next two weeks. |