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Show PLANS LAID FOR FARMERS' ROUND UP CONVENTIONS At a meeting or extension workers and other officers of tho Utnh Agricultural Agri-cultural College held recently, plans were laid for the most ambitious series se-ries of farmers' round-ups and housekeepers' house-keepers' conferences ever held in Utah. Threo big meetings woro, arranged, ar-ranged, one at Itichfleld to run trom January 14 to 10; one at Logan, on January 21 to 26, and ono ut Cedar City, February 4 to 0. These big conventions will bo both Instructional and Inspirational. Week courses will bo otfered In various lines In which those attending can follow a definite course of Instruction Instruc-tion of high practical value. In addition, addi-tion, authorities of national and International In-ternational fame will appear on the program for addresses on vital subjects sub-jects today. War needs will dctermino tho sub-Joct sub-Joct matter of tho threo conventions. Increased production and conservation conserva-tion will bo particularly stressed. Tho Extension Division specialists will not bo content with presenting thn problems now before tho country to tho people of tho State. They will also offer solutions suited to Western conditions. Tho program Is .now In tho hands of a special set of experts. When complete, It will Include most or all of the following subjects: Week courses for men, farm tractors, trac-tors, animal diseases, hog production, insect control, plant disease control, feeding of live stock, range management, manage-ment, construction of farm buildings, build-ings, Irrigation, grain standardization, standardiza-tion, crops, soils, beo culture, cement on tho farm, farm efficiency. Week courses for both men nnd women, poultry, war gardens, care and repair re-pair of automobiles; week courses for women, household bacteriology, homo efficiency, homo cheese making, mak-ing, renovation of clothing, exhibits Including demonstrations In connection connec-tion with which week courses will bo conducted on kitchen equipment, conservation of labor, fuel, and food In tho home, food values, and saving of fat. Separato and conjoint addresses ad-dresses will be delivered by national and local authorities on the problems nutrltlonol values of food, human efficiency, ef-ficiency, fitness of dress, habits and their formation, war foods, measurements measure-ments in tho homo. Ono day of particular par-ticular Interest will bo known as Patriotic Day. Addresses by men prominent In stato and .national at-falrs at-falrs will bo followed by' a review of tho Cadot Batalllon of tho College. In characterizing tho Importance of such gatherings to Utah, President E. G. Peterson declared that this year tho College had a direct message to deliver to tho peoplo of tho Stato. Tho necessity of conventions at which tho men nnd women can bo put In direct touch with tho momentous problems racing tho country and ro-colvo ro-colvo both tho Instruction and tho inspiration necessary to a full solution solu-tion of theao problems cannot bo over-estimated, said President Peterson. Peter-son. Director or Extension, John T. Calno, III, declared that tho big problom tho conventions must solvo was tho problem ot greater production produc-tion with less labor. Canada can show us how to solvo this problem, said Proressor Calno. Sho has already al-ready placed 400,000 men In tho field, as largo a number In proportion propor-tion to hor population ns 6,000,000 would bo to ours, yot sho is constantly constant-ly Increasing her production. Wo must plan our work carofully, always al-ways looking townrd greater oKIcl-oncy oKIcl-oncy of individual ofrort. Machinery on tho farm must help us to solve tho labor problom. Much of our roundup work will bo directly aimed aim-ed at this. Tho Stato Irrigation and Drainage Congress will doubtless bo glvon timo during Round-Up Week to pro-sont pro-sont somo or tholr probloms to tho farmers ot Utah'. |