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Show filial McCormick Speaks on Farm Manpower Situation Speaking before a Congressional Congres-sional committee on the farm manpower situation, Clarence J. McCormick, Under Secretary of Agriculture, recently pointed out that the high targets for 1951 farm production are encouraging. en-couraging. He added, however, that "a figure on paper, no matter mat-ter how carefully arrived at, is not fiber in the warehouse, nor is it food on the table." "Food and fiber are not produced pro-duced by land alone," the undersecretary under-secretary told the committee. "A great many elements besides land and water resources go into farm production machinery machin-ery and equipment, fuel, tires and repair parts, fertilizer, live-J live-J stock, buildings and plenty of disease-resistant and weather re-Isistant re-Isistant seed. But above all, food and fiber are produced by the skill, sweat and planning of farm operators and farm workers. work-ers. The millions of skilled people peo-ple who work on farms are the 1 nation's most valuable agricultural agricul-tural resource." PMA Chairman Cautions Against Over-Buying Over-buying of equipment or other supplies which will be necessary to meet the higher production goals for food and fiber agriculture's part of the defense effort could jeopardize the entire preparedness program, it was pointed out here today by Reed Lyons, chairman of the Duchesne PMA committee. There is a difference between alert buying to take care of legitimate le-gitimate anticipated needs and "scare" buying. "Scare" buying could result in short supplies and paar distribution of supplies that farmers will need to produce pro-duce and harvest their crops. As a case' in point, Mr. Lyons cited the following. Despite the fact that estimated 1951 requirements for baler and binder twines are higher than for any preceding year, recent reports from manufacturers indicate in-dicate that their increased pro-j pro-j duction schedules will be adequate ade-quate to meet ail requirements. However, recent reports received ' by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture indicate that some farmers are buying greater quantities of twine than they '. can be expected to use this year. I spent the week-end at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Hullinger. Mr. and Mrs. - Eldon White made a trip to Provo and Salt Lake City recently. Noble Clark, of Salt Lake City, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Clark, has been called back in to the Navy. Noble was in ser-l vice before. - The Mia-Maids and Explorers met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Farrell Rasmussen Sunday evening.' Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hatch announce an-nounce the arrival of twin sons born March 20 to their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hatch, of Heber City. ' A Fireside for the M-Men and Gleaners was held Sunday evening, eve-ning, April 1, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Todd, with Keith Todd, Mrs. Fred Cook and Mrs. Marvin Kettle as leaders. lead-ers. A Book of Mormon report was given and discussed, after which refreshments were served. Since it is not expected that production of twines will exceed requirements in 1951, it is important im-portant that farmers restrict purchases only to the quantity they will need during the year. Excessive buying at this time will seriously disrupt distribution distribu-tion of these twines and the result re-sult will be shortages in some areas. Such over-buying, Mr. Lyons stressed, if continued and extended ex-tended to other supplies and equipment necessary for farm operations, could have serious consefluences. He urged farmers farm-ers to remember that any excessive exces-sive buying might mean that they or their neighbors will not have enough of certain supplies sup-plies to meet their production and harvesting needs. Phosphate in Soil Will Help Production This Year Don't skimp on nitrogen on your crops - this year, even though phosphate may be short. This is the advice to farmers by Mr. Lyons. He makes the suggestion sug-gestion because some farmers may reduce their applications of nitrogen because less phosphate phos-phate may be available this year. One of the reasons for keeping keep-ing up applications of nitrogen', he points out, is that in many pa.rts of the country, more phosphate phos-phate has been applied to the land during the last few years than has - been taken off in crops. For the country as a whole in 1947, there were about 1,076,312 tons applied to the nation's soil. The same year crops removed 1,815,331 tons That left a balance in the soil of 160,981 tons. Chairman Reed Lyons suggests sug-gests to farmers that they get as i near their normal requirements require-ments of phosphate as they can and apply it to their crops. Then apply the usual amount of nitrogen. As he interprets the results re-sults from experiments and actual ac-tual farm operations, if the normal amount of nitrogen is put on the land in addition to the amounts of phosphate in commercial fertilizer, there should be little if any reduction in yield this year. , Duchesne farmers Make Conservation Progress Under the Agriclulture Conservation Con-servation Program, cooperating farmers receive assistance on the share-the-cost basis m carrying out soil and water conservation practices. To be eligible for assistance under the program, the chairman chair-man explains, practices have to be carried out according to ACP specifications. This is to assure full value in terms of results for public funds used. Mr. Lyons said that the effectiveness effec-tiveness of this program in obtaining ob-taining needed conservation is well demonstrated in the work that has been done" in Duchesne county. He points out that ACP, along with a number of other activities activ-ities of the Production and Marketing Mar-keting administration of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, is administered locally by elected elect-ed farmer committees. Farmer members of the Duchesne Du-chesne county committee in addition ad-dition to himself, are Joseph R. Clayburn and Ben G. Dye. There is also an elected farmer committee in each comunity in the county. |