Farmers, Sportsmen are working with State and Federal agencies in a conversation program that is getting results.

Last year Iowa farmers grew 40,000 acres of flax, the most in many years. They will probably grow a still larger acreage in 1940 because of the yield and price of the 1939 crop, and as in 1939, they may grow and harvest flax under the 1940 AAA program without having it count as a soil-depleting crop providing it is used as a nurse crop for clover, alfalfa or grass seeding.

Many of the old permanent bluegrass pastures in Iowa can almost be made “ to feed two cattle where one fed before.” We found this out from a study of the problem at Mt. Pleasant during the 6 years, 1933 to 1938. In the past 3 years some 250 Iowa farmers in 45 counties have cooperated in demonstrating the possibilities of increasing the returns from permanent pastures by introducing clover into old grass sods and from applying lime and phosphate fertilizer in addition to reseeding.

Experiment Station, Extension Service and Government Cooperate to improve woodlands.