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Show fitti PMA Committees Take Office Reed Lyons, the county PMA chairman, says that elected farmer committees took office January 1 in every agricultural county and community in the country. He explained that these committees com-mittees serve only part time and are paid only for the actual time they are on official duty. For most committeemen, this is only a few days a year. But. he said, they are on call at all times. Since the Production and Marketing Administration has been assigned major defense production responsibilities for agriculture, these committees may be called on for additional work during the comig year. Mr. Lyons said that every farmer farm-er should consider his farm as an essential defense production plant and the products of the farm as essential defense materials. mater-ials. ACP Builds Soil Reserves During 1950, soil and water conservation practices were carried car-ried out on 539 Duchesne county farms by farmers cooperating in the Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion Program. These farms comprise com-prise about 50 per cent of all the farmland in the county. Conservation Practices for 1951 Farmers of Duchesne county were advised this week by Mr. Lyons, chairman of the county PMA committee, to consider carefully the conservation prae- tices they intend to carry out under the 1951 Agricultural Conservation program. Faced with the uncertainties of present world conditions, the chairman stresses that it is vital vi-tal that every acre be kept in the best possible condition for continued production. Neither farmers nor the nation can afford af-ford "breakdowns" or "tie-ups" In the plants which produce food our most vital defense material. "We must keep our farms in as good a condition as possible," he said. "Every practice in the Agricultural Conservation pro gram is intended as a means of aiding farmers to keep their farms productive." The chairman emphasizes that it is because the protection of our soil and water resources is so vital to the welfare of the nation that there is a program for sharing the cost of certain conservation practices with farmers. . The program, he points out, is open to all farmers. The cost is shared only on approved practices, which have been carried car-ried out in accordance with prescribed pre-scribed standards. He urges each farmer who intends to cooperate in the 1951 program to talk over his plans with a member of the county committee or with local community com-munity committeemen. "A good understanding ahead of time is a lot better than misunderstandings misunder-standings later," he said. Rotation Makes Better Pastures Rotation of crops has generally general-ly been regarded as a practice to benefit cash or feed crops the grass and legumes helped the corn, oats and wheat. But now, according to Mr. Lyons, English farmers are finding that rotation also helps pasture crops .... that pasture following cultivated or small grain crops produces much more than permanent per-manent pasture. In the British trials, measurements measure-ments were taken of the amount of feed cattle and sheep grazed from permanent and rotation pastures in seven different locations. lo-cations. The first year the permanent per-manent pasture produced 194 pounds of liveweight gain . . . the rotation pasture 476 pounds. The second year the permanent pasture produced 264 pounds of gain . . . the rotation pasture 337. The third year the permanent perm-anent pasture produced 184 pounds of gain .... the rotation rota-tion pasture 242. |