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Show On Utah County Farms With Extension Agents : of the control work is to be done i by the extension service agencies within the state, Director Peterson was asked to head the grasshopper control committee which also includes in-cludes representatives of the Utah experiment station, the state agricultural agri-cultural college, the state department depart-ment of agriculture and other agencies. The committee plans to set up an organization in each county that is threatened with a grasshopper grass-hopper invasion, which organiza- j tion will distribute poisoned bait furnished at government expense. The county agricultural agent will act as county leader of the grasshopper grass-hopper campaign, under the supervision super-vision of a trained entomologist who will serve as state leader during dur-ing the control program. The government agencies will furnish the bait only and the ; respective counties that apply for aid must first arrange for the stor- j age of the bait when it arrives; also for its transportation and ; distribution to the infested areas. , i AAA WITHDRAWS PLAN 1 OK DAIRY CONTROL, FOLLO WIN G ST L D Y Farmers of Utah will not be given an opportunity, for the present, to share in the $870,000 in benefit payments, estimated to be Utah's share of the proposed S165,000,000-dollar dairy production produc-tion control program of the AAA. This announcement was made by Director William Peterson, manager of the administration for Utah, following a telegram from officials at Washington, D. C. The decision came after a close study of the l-eports from 15 regional conferences recently held by dairy officials of the AAA. In the light of testimony at the regional conferences, the position posi-tion of the agricultural adjustment adjust-ment administration can be defined de-fined on the following points : 1. The scope of assistance in number of diseased cattle and some dairy purchases for relief purposes,. The administration will undertake both these meas- ures with such funds as are made available by congress. Disease eradication is regarded by the administration as an important social welfare and efficiency measure which, however, is of comparatively minor effectiveness in production control. 2. Any adjustment program to be undertaken by the administration administra-tion must be for the dairy industry indus-try as a whole, must be voluntary, volun-tary, and must not discriminate between groups of producers. 3. Under the law, processing taxes can not be levied unless and until a decision is made to pay benefit payments to individual individ-ual farmers to compensate them for cooperation in production 'control, 'con-trol, as provided in all other agricultural ag-ricultural adjustment programs. 4. Experience has shown that large scale stabilization and price-fixing operations when undertaken un-dertaken for temporary benefit and without support by adequate control over production generally result in increasing production and end up in a relapse in prices. Hence, such large scale stabilization stabiliza-tion operations are not included in the administration's plans. Government purchases will be primarily for ' relief needs, and will be confined to those requirements. GOVERNMENT AGENTS PLAN WAR ON HOI'PEISS With a heavy infestation of grasshoppers this year in certain .areas of Utah, state agricultural authorities have effected an organization or-ganization to take advantage of. government funds which have been made available through the bureau of entomology, United States department de-partment of agriculture, reports Director William Peterson of the state extension service and chairman chair-man of the organization. Inasmuch as the major portion |