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Show FINE CHANGE FOB BOYS OF COUNTY May tf to Northern Agricultural Agricultur-al Counties and Study Practical Prac-tical Farming and Marketing During our Leadership program, which was held last January, the thought occurred to some of those interested in-terested in vegetable gardening and marketing that it would be a good thing to send a group of young men into some of the northern counties of the state and let them study the growing grow-ing of vegetables on a commercial basis, by actually engaging in that work as farm employees. This plan was presented to W. P. Thomas, marketing mar-keting specialist from the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural College, who has since taken the matter up with Mr. Owens, county agent leader at the agricultural college, col-lege, and also with Mr. Wilson, superintendent super-intendent of the Davis county experimental experi-mental farm. Mr. Owens suggests that, in as much as very few of these growers employ men permanently, it might be well to establish a camp, say at Bountiful. It is also planned to send a man along with the boys and to him will be given general supervision over the camp. Superintendent Davis stated that the experimental farm employed a lot of help and it would be glad to give our boys consideration. The purpose of this article is to notify the people of Washington county coun-ty that each town in the county may have one or two boy representatives in this camp, provided the boys are directly interested in studying production produc-tion and marketing problems connected connect-ed with fruit and vegetables; and are : willing to. pay their individual ex- j penses, retaining, of course, the money j earned while on the trip. It may be 1 well for the various towns to work through their bishoprics in selecting j boys to represent them. In Hurricane, ! Wm. E. Woodbury is a member of the county marketing committee. In Santa Clara Edw. R. Prei, Sr. is a j member of this committee and these I men will be glad to render assistance ! in this work. It appears that this is a fine oppor- ; tunity for the boys and also for our ! county as a whole. At the present ' time, some of our towns are stressing vegetable growing while others are engaged en-gaged almost wholly in the production ' of fruit. If the boys could arrange to ! leave as soon as school is out, they i could get experience in the planting j and cultivation of vegetables. A little later there would be the picking and I "packing of early fruit such as cherries I and the several varieties of berries, 1 Following this would be the maturing and the harvesting of the vegetables. Altogether it would make a fine sum- mer program for the boy interested in '' this phase of agricultural development and, furthermore, it should be profitable profit-able from a remunerative standpoint. However, the foremost consideration should be the gaining of experience in the handling of fruit and vegetables on a commercial basis so that when the boys return home they may take a lead in their various communities in this line of work. In order to get properly placed in the northern counties, it will be necessary neces-sary for the boys desiring to engage in this work to reply through their respective bishopric not later than April 5th. Address your communication communica-tion to Mathew M. Bentley at the Dixie College. |