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Show Page 6 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS Amiswer to Workshop Imgatoirs Qmiesttbims SERIOUSLY and Otherwise Persons concerned with management, distribution and use of irrigation water have posed many questions that will be answered at a three day IrriThose concerned from counties gation Operators Workshow December throughout the state will participate in the workshop sponsored by, Utah State 10-1- 2. - University Extension Services. It will be held in the University Center on Campus in Logan. --- n USU ? Richard E. Griffin, extension irrigation specialist in charge of the workshop, cites the following as a sample of the questions to be dealt with: How much water do we have, where is ' it, and how is it being used? What development has taken place and what are the future supplies and needs for agriculture, cities, industry, recreation, and wUdllfe? Will a state water plan help us to develop our water more effectively? If so, what should it include? If water measurement and control is of value, what are the more practical methods of installing these devices? How can they be used and maintained prop- USU erly? What should be considered when deciding whether to apply water with a sprinkler system or by surface methods? What are the advantages of one system over What are the relative another? costs of different irrigation systems? Can I afford to pumpwater? How much can I afford to spend on an irrigation system? Why is solving the engineering problems often not as difficult as solving the human problems? What can be done to help maintain effective human relations? What are the laws of states regarding water rights and what are the variations and Interpretations that have from court decisions? What might the future effects of such laws be? y:' Griffin noted that this . is a three day refresher course with out standing leaders in the field of water management. Instructors will include professional teachers and researchers, agency personnel and men from the field who are working with water problems. . a-ri- sen Anyone interested in registering for this workshop may contact their local county extension agent or Professor Griffin at the USU Engineering Department in an. Log- San Juan Workshop Draws 125 Reductions-U- p To 20 Off Free mounting of every new tire FREE valve stems Also reduced prices on automotive accessories. Take advantage of these savings at your nearest IFA Center on the following dates: Salt Lake, Draper & Riverton i Nephi & Ogden Roosevelt Delta Nov. 6, 7, 8 Nov. 13, 14, 15 Nov. 20, 21, 22 Dec. 4, 5, 6 Intermountain Farmers Association November, 1969 Ranchers and farmers, on the whole, are disappointed at the farm program proposals Secretary Hardin made to the House a week or more ago. While the . . secretary's recommendations are By HARVEY GRIFFIN distinct improvements over the present program! they do not the fundamental changes make Someone well said that when needed in the Food and are that you pay people to be poor, there Agriculture Act of 1965 which are going to be plenty of poor are largely responsible for the people. present unsatisfactory farm con- More than a hundred women attended the San Juan County Women's workshop held in Monticello in late September. Guest speaker Dr. Kenneth Maughn talked on the subject, Sex Education in the Schools". He gave a brief resume of our school system - starting with the three R's, up to the many subjects that are offered today. He reviewed the amount of sex education which is taught in health and home economics class. He told us of the different organization in the nation who are trying to push sex education into the school. Bob Law of the Utah State Highway patrol showed a very educational film on Space travel, explaining how many accidents can be avoided if am lie space is allowed between each vehicle on the. highway and obeying the yellow line markers on the" highway when pasrno "r sing. Mrs. Etna Schafer gave a demonstration on making mini furniture out of tin cans. , The workshop was produced by San Juan County Farm Bureau Women's Committee and County Extension Office. The Read Committee was Pearl Lewis, Marva Edwards, Dora Adams and Vernice Harris. Other Committee members were: Ruth Crowley, Mildred Miller, Charlene Johnson, jew-e- ll Eastland; Caliham, Ucola; Sonja Redd, LaSal; Opal Hooper,' Bluff; Josephine Bayles, Lucille Black, Bladnlng; Linda Lewis, Lou Redd, Seraphlne Frost, Fern Peterson: Monticello. ditions. A small town is a place where The issue involved in agriculthere is no place to go where tural legislation can be stated you shouldnt. very simply as a choice between the use of the market place' or Definition of a cow: Four stander-upperfour two lookers, two hookers, and a swishy-swashpuller-downer- s, s, y. If theres room for Adam Clayton Powell in the House, there is probably room for Teddy Kennedy in the Senate but not in the Presidency. Progressive education: A public government adminstrators, for making basic determinations such as: (1) Who will produce what; (2) what the rewards will be and (3) how the production will be distributed. All personal freedoms actually are dependent on each persons economic freedoms. If the government admistrators are to take basic economic decisions such as establishing price levels, personal freedoms cannot exist. school teacher, entering her class- While sozpe farmers favor an room after the luncheon hour, saw a group of small boys kneel- extension of the Act of 1965, they fail to realize they voting against ing in a circle. she basic freedoms and market price What are you doing, determinations. sskBdi dice. The fdll impact of the substituWere just shooting of government administrators a tion Oh, said the teacher with sigh of relief. Thats all right. for the' market place in making I thought you were engaged in basic decisions will only be, visible to producers when the proprayer. grams spread to all agriculture be , too late. and then A chaperone is defined as one When the it may of program who could never make the team, is applied to all agbut is still there intercepting riculture, freedom to choose will passes. be eliminated and fanners will be relegated to the status of the A bachelor is a fellow who is peasant class. crazy to get married and knows it. Cesar Chavez, head of the United Farm Workers Organizing A girls conscience doesn't keep Committee, the union that instigher from doing something wrong ated the grape boycott, is sailit merely keeps her from en- ing on another tack. In the year joying it. that elapsed since the boycott started people over the country An important angle was touch- have learned the truth about the ed on by California Farm Bureau boycott, about the force and coerPresident Allan Grant when he cion being used not only to get said, Through all the furor over the pickers to join a union they chemicals used in agriculture, the want nothing to do with, but to fate of Americas food product- deny the American housewife ion too often has been either for- her free choice of what to buy gotten or ignored. Farmers are in the market place. as anxious aS anyone alse to Failing to make the boycott efbe it whether bird, fective, for almost everywhere protect life, life. human or .animal marine, grapes are now being offered for And they recognize the use of sale, Chavez is starting on a tour to accuse the growDDT and related chemicals will to other proof ers inevitably, give way using so many insecticides of methods on their grapes that picking them fightducts and other alis and working in the vineyards is happening ing pests. This must sure be most daily. But we injurious to the workers health. we have these alternatives avail- An attempt by a union lawyer to able before we ban a chamical prove excessive aldrin on grapes completely, if we are to be able marketed, has been refuted to to make food available at a price strongly this particular line has been abandoned. consumers can afford to pay But with the past record of unor at any price in some instances. truths and misrepresentation Some ironic psycdhological and charged to the UFWOC, it is economic factors are involved in doubtful if many will believe the recent houswife complaints Chavez when he puts his case about meat mainly beef pric- before the country. The issue is not merely Cales. Homemakers with money to table grapes, but all agrispend have been demanding ser- ifornia culture. Already the citrus inmore. vices and products that cost is threatened. When will it dustry By no means restricted to meat, be beef? but other food as well. But when the inflation pinch begins to hurt, meat seems to get the brunt of the blame; perhaps because it is so universally popular. One cattlemen made this ' comment: Dont blame- beef prices for inflation; blame inflation for beef supply-manageme- cOun-try-wi- Farm wages rise as work - prices. When the consumer spends $1.00 on food at the grocery store, he is buying 40 cents worth of products and 60 cents worth of marketing' service. Fanners receive an average of 40 cents out of each $1.00 consumers spent at the checkout counter for U. S. farm produced food in January March 1969. The farmers share of the consumers dollar varies It is widely among products. a smaller for highly serviced product such as bread than for an unprocessed product such as eggs. force drops The number of hired workers on U.S. farms in September was three percent below a year earlier and their average wages were seven percent higher, USD A reported on October 10. The total farm work force during the September survey week was 5,424,000 down three percent from the September, 1968, figure of 5,573,400. There were 3,905,000 family workers down two percent in a year. Hired workers totaled 1,519,300 down from 1,568,600 a year earlier. nt de |