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Show State Extension Service Progress And Problems Told in Report Session i Activities, progress and problems prob-lems of agricultural extension work in Iron county were discussed dis-cussed at the annual Utah State Extension service report meeting held Friday, Nov. 30 at 3 p. m. in the offices of County Agent Stephen L. Brower in the Federal building. Mr. Brower delivered a detailed report of extension work conducted during the past year. Dr. Carl Frischknecht, director of the extension service, addressed ad-dressed the group, pointing out that the yearly report meetings! have the three-fold purpose of reporting accomplishments, clearing clear-ing up misconceptions and misunderstandings, mis-understandings, and presenting the public an opportunity to make suggestions on the program. pro-gram. Others in attendance included in-cluded Rep. Walter K. Granger, Iron County Commissioners, Douglas Clark, Warren H. Bulloch Bul-loch and Jess Guymon; C. R. Hunter of the USAC board of trustees, and representatives of such organizations in the county as the Farm Burean, Farmers' union and Grange, as well as of schools, civic groups and churches. Mr. Brower reported the following follow-ing extension accomplishments during the year: Farm homes visited in connection with problems prob-lems and suggestions, 889; office' calls by the public for assistance and information, 2,349; telephone calls to the agent's office, 2,685; newspaper articles, 159; radio programs, 57; meetings held by county agent or home agent, 357, with 8,685 persons attending, and meetings held by group leaders, 568, with 4,448 in attendance. Home agent Adele Decker assisted assist-ed Mr. Brower during most of the year. I I Another important phase of extension ex-tension work was the fight on jhalogeton, which was found to have infested more than 2,000 acres in the county. A team of 170 men was trained in fighting fight-ing the deadly weed and will serve as a nucleus for a more effective fighting force in the future, Mr. Brower reported. He stated that since the plant is an annual the most successful weapon wea-pon against halogeton is uprooting uproot-ing by hand. Mr. Brower also discussed various other projects on livestock, crops, fruit, pest control, marketing, conservation, forestry and wildlife on which he is working. He accompanied his report with a series of colored slides. While the county agent submits sub-mits monthly written reports on extension activities, the report meeting is intended to supply the public with details of projects pro-jects on which a share of its taxes are being spent. Accordingly, Accord-ingly, Dr. frischknecht said, the report meetings are held primarily pri-marily for the public. Extension activities are financed from federal, fed-eral, state and county funds. Dr. Frischknecht pointed out that the principal purpose of the extension program at present is to expand educational activities to include a larger group of people peo-ple in the larger towns. Agricultural Agricul-tural education is vital to the future, aiming at (1) increased production of food for a growing population, (2) more efficient production, and (3) new people trained in modern agriculture. The need for increased efficiency efficien-cy in production is illustrated by the fact that 90 per cent of the food grown in America is produced pro-duced by only 50 per cent of the farmers, Dr. Frischknecht said. In scope, the extension program, pro-gram, which is tied to the land grant colleges, is expanding to give information and assistance not only on agricultural matters but on public welfare, price supports, sup-ports, the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic At-lantic Alliance, benefit payments and taxation, Dr. Frischknecht declared. Yet, with its expanded responsibilities and undertakings, undertak-ings, the extension service operates oper-ates on a fixed budget, he added. He stressed the need for close work with people on the county level. |
