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Show On Utah County Farms With County Extension Agent entire country on a more desirable and profitbale basis. .An official state agency consisting con-sisting of representatives from the Utah Hatchers and Breeders association, the state board of agriculture, agri-culture, and the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college has already been set up and Utah breeders and hatcherymen have until December 1 to join the program. around Uie poultry houses and in regard to the type and weight of the chicks. Three, degrees of Pullorum disease dis-ease eradication -have also been provided for in the plan. In order of increasing desirability, these are to be known as ".Pullorum Tested," "Pullorum Passed," and "Pulorum Cean." .. . Many :f the provisions of the plan have already been used, with success in different parts of the UnitQd States and it is believed that its use will help greatly to increase in-crease the rate of egg production i and,put,t!ip .poultry, justness m tne any breeder or hatcheryman in a state may or may not come under un-der the plan. Wherever it is adopted adopt-ed an official state agency responsible re-sponsible to the government must be set up to supervise the program. pro-gram. The plan sets up minimum specifications speci-fications for five different stages or grades of breeding stock, hatching hatch-ing eggs, and baby chicks. Each of these grades has minimum requirements re-quirements which must be met before be-fore one can advertise and sell that particular grade. The lowest grade is U. S. Approved. Other grades listed in accordance with increasing quality are: U. S. Verified, Veri-fied, U. S. Certified, U. S. Record of Performance, and U. S. Record of Merit. . Among other requirements, U-S. U-S. Approved chicks must be. hatched hatch-ed in a U. S. Approved hatchery and from eggs from U. S. Approved Approv-ed flocks. The U. S. Approved flocks are to be selected for constitutional con-stitutional vigor and . egg production, pro-duction, by a selecting agent appointed ap-pointed by the official state agency. Each bird selected must be banded by a sealed and numbered num-bered legband. This, selection and mating must be done at least 20 days before any eggs for hatching hatch-ing are collected. There are also minimum requirements for egg size, shape and color; sanitary conditions in the incubator and ulated will also include a study of the natural agricultural resources re-sources of each county, he explained. explain-ed. Such data as kinds of soil, climate, cli-mate, and irrigation facilities will be checked over and policies adopted adopt-ed to start the farmers off in the right direction in regards to the proper use of these basic resources. re-sources. ' . POULTRYMEN ADOPT STANDARD STAND-ARD TERMS, GRADES FOR STOCK BY CARL FR1SCHKNECHT U. S. A. C. Extension Poultryman In years past, breeders and poultry poul-try improvement associations in the several states have developed standards and used terms to sell hatchery products that represented certain requirements in one state and entirely different requirements in other states. In order to correct cor-rect this condition and improve the quality of chicks in the entire en-tire United States funds were provided pro-vided July. 1, 1935 'for putting a national improvement plan f poultry breeding into operation by the United States department of agriculture. The plan is a voluntary one and I FAJiMEItS TO PLAN OWN . PHOGKAM SAYS THOMAS Farm planning committees will be set up in the near future in the various counties of the state, according- to Professor W. P. Thomas, head of the agricultural economics department of the Utah State Agricultural college. "These comittees, oesides assisting as-sisting in making up the agricultural agri-cultural program for the state, are designed especially to start the farmers to planning for themselves," them-selves," said Professor Thomas in explaining the function of the new set up. He also stated that these committees! would be chosen by J; the farmers of the county in which they were to act and will serve as a basis for agricultural adjustment adjust-ment programs, designed to meet the needs of the farmers. Changes in transport atipn methods, changes in range management man-agement policies and the new plant and animal diseases, as well as the rapid economic changes taking tak-ing place, are a few of the factors making it necessary for the farmers farm-ers of the different counties to get together and work out just what crops and livestock can be raised most economical Iy and to the best advantages to themselves and the country as a whole. This, along with showing the farmers the value of planning their production pro-duction in accordance with the agricultural needs of the nation should do a great deal towards establishing a more set rate of production for agricultural America," Ameri-ca," said Professor Thomas in explaining the causes and character char-acter of this program. The plan that is now being form- |