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Show Unless Production Increased, Beef May Have To Be Imported - Bennett Utah soon may be forced to import beef and certain farm products, unless her farmers and stockmen are enabled to increase in-crease production, Wallace F. Bennett, candidate for the Republican Re-publican nomination to the U. S. Senate, warned in a statement state-ment released today. With population increasing by leaps and bounds, Mr. Bennett predicted that the home market, mark-et, "in the not too distant future," fu-ture," would outstrip home production pro-duction of some farm and range products. He insisted that this present and potential increase in demand should rightly be supplied by Utah farmers and stockmen, rather than satist'ied from the outside through imports. im-ports. "The federal government as the 'landlord' of most of the area of Utah, can properly aid livestockmen to increase meat output by improving the carrying carry-ing capacity of public ranges," the candidate declared, adding: "This carrying capacity could ! be greatly increased by an accelerated ac-celerated program of federal range improvement and particularly particu-larly by speeding up the program pro-gram of reseeding much of the range to drouth resistant grasses." grass-es." Mr. Bennett also insisted that federal bureaucrats should be stopped from the promiscuous practice of withdrawing vast areas of public land for little or no reason. "Useless withdrawals with-drawals of public range in these times is as bad as keeping dwellings unoccupied for no reason during a housing shortage," short-age," he said. The candidate pointed out that the current and prospective gain in the home market for agricultral products due to population pop-ulation increase was a good demonstration of the inter-dependence of industry and agriculture. agri-culture. "Under favorable political po-litical conditions, Utah can have a great industrial future," he predicted, explaining that this also means a great agricultural future. |