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Show Staff Drafted To Purchase Cattle Organized under the supervision of the extension service of the Utah State Agricultural college, the emergency emer-gency cattle purchase plan of the AAA is being administered at a minimum mini-mum cost in Utah. The extension director, specialists and county agents of the state have been drafted for this emergency work at no additional cost to the government govern-ment for salaries. William Peterson, director of the extension, has been appointed state director of relief service, AAA. by Dr. E. W. Sheets, the. federal administrator, administra-tor, and has had full responsibility for the county organizations for the appraisal and purchase of cattle. Weekly quota of cattle from the various vari-ous counties of the state are allotted from his office, depending upon the seriousness of the situation in the county and upon the ability of the state FERA officials to handle the slaughter and processing of animals at packing and canning plants in the state. It is at present estimated that the state will approximate about 4500 head weekly. The state has been divided into five zones and extension specialists W. W. Owens, E. J. Maynard, George B. Caine, A. C. Esplin, and D. P. Murray Mur-ray have been designated to assist the director in expediting the work in the various counties. The county machinery for handling the purchase of cattle includes the county director, who is the county agent, an assistant director, an advisory ad-visory committee of three local live-"stock live-"stock men in the county, and appraisal ap-praisal committees of two each, composed com-posed also of local cattle men. The selection of directors and advisory ad-visory committees for the counties has been the responsibility of the state director. Under the plan for fair representation of producers outlined by the state director, the Utah Cattle and Horse Owners' association has named two of the three county directors. di-rectors. County appraisal committees are appointed by county director and advisory ad-visory board according to the number and location of cattle to be appraised. These appraisal committees work with a B. A. I. inspector who has sole responsibility res-ponsibility for condemning cattle or passing them for food. Condemned cattle are destroyed on the p)ace, while those passed for food are processed pro-cessed and canned to be stored for food for relief purposes. |