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Show reau chief canvassed each case and reports to the secretary of agriculture, agricul-ture, who carefully considers each record. The department has been in the position of having to increase its forces by approximately 7000 at the very moment when it was losing approximately ap-proximately 6000 of Its most effective and trained employees. This emphasizes em-phasizes the difficulty of executing the tasks imposed upon the departments depart-ments by congress, including the enforcement en-forcement of regulatory statutes, the various quarantine laws and the ' maintenance and development of the special emergency food production activities. I recognize the statutory authority of boards to decide these questions, but believe that the facts recited above, none of which is disputed, require re-quire that boards give special, consideration consid-eration to certificates issued by the department of agriculture to county agents. 1 IRE RELEASES FOR REGISTERED MEN. Draft Boards Ordered to First Make Sure of August Calls. No more releases to registrants under the selective service regulations are to be gced in order that they may enter rvico with the marine corps, the navy or the emergency fleet corporation until local board members shall, be satisfied that they will have a sufficient number of , men to fill all the August calls for the "jVaft. Telegraphic instructions to this 5ect were received yesterday by Captain Cap-tain F. V. Fltz Gerald from Provost Marshal Mar-shal General IS. H. Crowder. It is estimated that the calls for August Au-gust will total for the state of Utah about 1300 men. In addition to the regular regu-lar draft calls it is anticipated that there will be a requirement for another 4o3 men from the University of Utah training train-ing camp, because the present class will finish Its course on August 15. This call is included In the calculation that, there will be 1300 men called from this state in August. The August quota for Utah has not as yet been made out, but It is calculated that there will be little dificulty in filling fill-ing it if ordinary precaution is exercised in preventing the release of too many .registrants to identify themselves with "arms of the service outside of the regular draft. Captain Cassius R. Pock, acting judge mlvocate at Camp Lewis, informs Governor Gov-ernor Bamberger that upon investigation he has found that there has been no i'lvgularitv In drafting registrants from Utah. About two weeks ago there was an Intimation contained in the dispatches that such Irregularity existed, but Captain I'eck's letter assures Governor Bamberger that the record of, Utah draft boards in this respect is clear. Earnest consideration of a plea from the United States department of agriculture agri-culture in behalf of county agricultural ngwils of draft age Is recommended to local boards bv General Crowder in the fallowing telegram received by Captain Fits Gerald yesterday morning: The department of agriculture .views with special concern the evidence evi-dence which reaches it of tho action by boards in refusing deferred classification clas-sification and in vacating deferred classification and order numbers of county agents employed by that department. de-partment. The department is charged by congress con-gress with the duty of stimulating economically food production along all lines. The extension machinery is (he most valuable single agency 'yr this purpose. It Is difficult to secure men with the requisite vision and leadership. Institutions have not heen training men a long enough tinie to permit the department to man the force entirely by men over draft 3gc. W-roat caro has been exercised in selecting the extension agents. They are selected by the farm bureaus and the state college officers and recommended recom-mended to the department. The bu- |