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Show piovcmcnt program report which I bi ought first place to Utah county I in the western division, is included in the report as submitted in the contest. A perusal of the headings in the ! report gives the reader an idea uf I the many activities in which the I county agents are engaged. There I is poultry projects, including record j keeping work, breeding improvement improve-ment woil;, and turkeys; animal ' husbandry, 4-H club work. In horticulture assistance has ! been rendered in orchard manage-j manage-j ment, insect and rodent control; l plant disease research has em-i em-i braced work in alfalfa diseases, to-I to-I mato diseases, strawberry diseases, j In cooperative marketing assist-i assist-i ance has been rendered mainly to dairy units; farm accounts projects have been fostered with meetings followed up with farm visits. Work in crop production was included in-cluded investigation in pasture plantings, sugar beet tour, certified certi-fied seed and fertilizers. Mention is made of fairs and shows In which the extension department has been interested. Rodent control con-trol work has been done against mice, rats, and ground squirrels. The assistance rendered in drought relief work is recounted, and an extensive report made of rocteation activities sponsored, including the farm bureau baseball league. Salem, Sa-lem, the county champion, captured the state farm bureau title in a play-off with sectional winners. The detailed report on 4-H club work will be given in a later article. JtCIIHTIES OF COUNTY AGENT I0LD Dairy Improvement Program To Be Continued On Extensive Exten-sive Scale; Control of the Strawberry Disease Needed The dairy betterment program, pro-gram, sponsored by the county coun-ty agricultural extension department de-partment for the past year should be continued for the coming year as the major project, according to a recom-m recom-m e n d a t i o n m a d e by Ly m a n H. Rich, county agent, and Anson B. Call, assistant agent, in their annual report issued Saturday. Specialists are needed to carry on further investigation into the strawberry and tomato diseases which are threatening to wipe out one of the promising industries of the county. This is also true of alfalfa disease control, a project which is now under way in cooperation coop-eration with the U. S. A. C. experiment experi-ment station departments, the report re-port says. The 4-H program, highly successful suc-cessful during the past year, will be continued with greater emphasis empha-sis on quality of work and more time devoted to advanced members. The value of proper thinning of fruit and pruning of trees must be ' brought home to a greater percent of the fruitgrowers and specialists 1 are needed to get this information ; to the growers. Special emphasis is needed on insect control to improve im-prove quality and to obtain a high- er percentage of U. S. No. 1 grade, i The report is a comprehensive : and illuminating volume embracing - 125 typweritten pages, illustrated 1 with numerous photographs cover- ing the many activities of the extension ex-tension work. The entire dairy im- |