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Show WORK OF M ' - I C0UHTV AGENTS . I Agricultural College Report to H Governor Shows Benefits M of Practical Education. H HOW THE COUNTY M AGENT HELPS FARMER M Many Importnnt Irrigation Systems H Developed and Other Worthy H Improvements Fostered. H The annual report of tho county agent work in the state of Utah went M to tho Governor this week. H During tho year 424 cows havo been H tested by the county agents and 454 H tested through the high schools under H tho direction of county agents. This H determines for tho farmer which cows M arc making him a profit and on which B ho is losing. H In Utah county an up-to-date ays- H tern of water dividing and measuring M weirs have been installed under the i M direction of the county agent and in M the state fifteen irrigation systems M havo been planned for the farmers, M covering 29,508 acres of land. M Sevier county has begun, with the M county agent's nid, the organization H of a drainage district which will cov- H er 35,000 acres of land.' Which when H drained will bo worth $3,500,000. In H its present state two-thirds of it is A H worthless. Thirty-one other drainage ' H systems covering 19,060 acres havo already been planned. M In Millard county 30,000 acres on H 750 farms were planted to Turkoy H Rod wheat. The avorago yield of the , , H 1915 crop was 30 bushels per acre. j H Turkey red was practically tho only sV,H variety that made goodlast year.. yj d. ilH A-oftrlotul of seed 9otatoiha8?HWCi'; ' 3 fjJjH orado in order loget diseaso-ree po- 'v' " "'fct fnH tatoes. The results were highly sat- - tH isfactory. -H Tho Salt Lako county agent ob- ; H taincd excellent results from definito ' H seed selection of potatoes for tho H elimination of potato diseases. There H arc 58 farmers In tho state practicing H either corn or potato selection. 499 H farmers treated seed potatoes under H the direction of the county agents last H The state has been kept practically H clear of hog choloara by tho timely H nnd efficient aid of the county agent. . H Throughout the state 4G6 hogs wore ' H vaccinated last year. H A farm survey of 3G0 farms was H made last year. TI)o farmer whose H form operations were recorded are H urgent in their request that tho work jH be continued. Practical record books H were placed in tho hands of all theso r H farmers. H The county agents operated with ''' H the people of the grasshopper-infest- H cd districts of tho 3tatc and helped H them exterminate, with poisonous H bran mushes and other menus, this H pest. One ont field showed by count H over 3,000,000 grasshoppers killed per H acre. H The needs for silage in Utah is be- - H ing definitely worked on in Salt Lako H and Utah counties, by trying to dovel- H op varieties of silage corn especially (' H adapted to this section. The silo bus- 'H ipess is being rapidly developed in tho , jH Five new counties seeing the bene- fits derived from tho elforts of tho 'H county agents in other counties, havo H petitioned for county agents to be jH provided for them as quickly as pos- JpS sible. 112 |