Show U economist declares utah farm ills due to unwise land use the development and adoption of wise land programs will solve many of agriculture agricultures agri cultures a pro Mem dr 0 J wheatley extension economist told agricultural lead ers attending the recent leadership school held at logan dr pointed out iha chit 0 many acres of near argina mr gina d were now being crowned dafid in 1 bringing only low returns toabe to the cultivators shifting this type of land to graca gra 3 or timber would tend to reduce the production of the currently superabundant f farm crops and concentrate the production on land where production costs are lower and net income to the farmer more satisfactory he contended every state in the union including utah ah husome hansome lend which is s iut too poor to continue in cultivation ti under present price con lotions lit ift ions dr wheatley declared even poz possible sibe world war il II pr r acs do not sem to warr nt con inked cultivation of some currently cropped land nor t te e turn of much recently rega 1 land lana back to cultivation keeping out of cultivation the poorer lands and the adoption of sound individual fam faim management practices on the better land would dg d much to solve the perplexing and apparently long continuing farm problem farmers however are not entirely to blame for the continued cultivation of this near marginal land the economist pointed out unlike other industries agriculture has had to absorb most of its own unemployment problems industry has turned its burden of unemployment to the government many farmers are cultivating near marginal land not because they want vant to lut but because they would rather take the low returns which this poor land offers than go on relief in feet fact going on relief so easy for the man on this poor land if the blocked or restricted lestric lestri cled ted industrial occupations were opened to those capable and willing to work the intense pressure to cultivate this poor land would subside and the thai problem of securing wise land use would be infinitely more simple dr wheatley said qaid in view of the fact that the government does not assume a proportionate relief burden in an over manned agriculture and because of the artificial block blocking ng of employment for farm deop people le in much of industry it appears necessary that the federal government substantially subsidize the shifting of poor land into grasses and timber and assume some responsibility for the care of the people thus displaced if this were done and the far farmers mers on the ilia I 1 better farm land adopted 1 i y 4 sound individual farm marf man ment practices dr wheatley contended that a large part of the perplexing agricultural problem will have been solved |