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Show CONFERENCE CLOSED HERE WEDNESDAY Agriculturists point out i Problems of Farmers inj Western States Visitors Visi-tors go to Bird Sanctuary Sanc-tuary A possible federal program to assist the farm, ts in understand-1 ing national and international! problems that will directly and indirectly in-directly affect them, formed the major topic for discussion Wednesday Wed-nesday morning at the western ,.. agricultural planning ' conference j which has be n in session at thej Utah State Agricultural college. M. L. Wilson, assistant secretary of agriculture, introduced the.v-'-V ject by saying ' that never bejre have farm men and women of this country be.fti thinking so intelligently in-telligently and extensively on national na-tional problems as at present. He briefly outlined the plan of the federal administration to contact farmers and farm organizations and stimulate tlx ir thinking along - lines cf agricultural adjustment problems and policies. He pointed out that last winter win-ter experiments were carried out In 10 states in conducting discussion dis-cussion groups and that unusual Interest was shown and developed among the farm population in states where the work was carried on. Roy F. Hendrickson of the United Stat 6 department of agriculture, ag-riculture, explained the organization organi-zation and working of the discussion discus-sion groups, and the topics which have proved popular in the experiments ex-periments so far. He mentioned such subjects as the for ign trade policy desired by farmers and agriculture in peace and war. H. R. Tolley, economist for the AAA, explained the proposed federal fed-eral plan to revive county program pro-gram panning by agricultural officials, of-ficials, which was abandoned largely large-ly when the emergency duties of the triple A shifted attention in other lines. He poinMd out that the administration had been working work-ing diligently to get a county state and national picture of agriculture ag-riculture of this nation. Carl F. Taeusch of the AAA discussed dis-cussed the part the philosophers of the country are playing in interpreting in-terpreting the present national program and explaining certain perplexing problems that have arisen since it was put Into effect. ef-fect. Reports of committee meetings were given by Director F. B. Lin-field, Lin-field, Montana State college; Dr. A. G. Black of the United States department ' of agriculture; with responses by Dr. James T. Jar-dine, Jar-dine, chief -experiment stations; M. R. Benedict, Dean C. B. Hutchinson, Hut-chinson, University of California; Professor W. P. Thomas, Utah State Agricultural College; E. L. Potter, Oregon State CoE:ge: Dr. George W. Barr, University of Arizona; Dr. A. G. Black, U.S.D. A.; Dr. Paul A. Eke, University of Idaho and others. In the closing session of the conference Wednesday afternoon Secretary Henry A. Wallace ex- (Continued on Page Four) CONFERENCE CLOSED HERE . WEDNESDAY (Continued from Page One) pressed his appreciation to President Presi-dent E. G. Peterson and other college officials for the way in which the convention delegates had been entertained for three days. He also commended the extension ex-tension service and experiment station dhvetors from the eleven 'western states for having entered into the spirit of the conference I: with such interest and cooperation. coopera-tion. Dr. Tolley explained thr new amendments to the AAA bill and answered numerous questions from the' delegates regarding the in-terpr in-terpr tation of the bill and its probable effect on the agricultural administration. Following the conference the delegates wer? taken to Ogdm by way of th., Bear river bird sanctuary through arrangements made by Russell E. Berntson, executive ex-ecutive secretary of the college. O ' |