Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 35, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 July 1949 — SURPLUS CROPLAND? [ARTICLE]

SURPLUS CROPLAND?

The country cannot afford to allow good productive farm land to go to waste, declares L. M. Vogler, Chairman of the Indiana State PMA Committee, stressing the need for conserving the land taken out of tilled crops. He points out that to use good productive land to further increase surpluses is a waste both of the land and of the money necessary to grow the unneeded crops. Such land either should produce crops which are needed or he set aside and conserved for future use. The Agriculture Conservatnion Program, provides financial assistance to 'farmers for putting such land into conserving uses, the chairman explains. This assistance averages about 50 percent of the “out-of-pocket” cost of carrying out approved conservation practices. Recommended practices for such land include the establishment of permanent pasture, rotation pasture, „hay meadows, cover crops, green manure, and planting to trees. A check up at the County Agricultural Conservation Association office will indicate which of these are approved for a particular county and the financial assistance available. “With the nation's population increasing at the rate of about 2 million a year, all available land will he needed in the future,” says the chairman. “To waste the land either in producing currently unmarketable surpluses or to allow the land to deteriorate from erosion and neglect is to undermine thuc security ©f future generations.” I Miss Hetty De I.orenz of Rochester, New York, fiancee of Mr. Calvin Swart is visiting in the Wm. Swart home. Mr. Phil Van M eerten was brought home from the Jasper county hospital in the Todd ambulance Wednesday.