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Show King Ibn Saud of Arabia has hired hir-ed American county agents to show his people how to grow more and better crops. Gradually the Arabs are replacing 4000 year old farming methods with modern A-merican A-merican ways.Their goal is to raise all the food they can eat instead of importing 80 Toward this end, these county agents hope to organize organ-ize Arab-style 4H clubs which may one day conduct a field crops program pro-gram just as Utah is doing now. Good farm practices and expert ex-pert uses of farm machinery are part of the 1949 National 4H Field Crops program, declared Guy L. Noble, director. National committee of boys and girls club work. The project which streses increased pro duction of certified seed, feed, food and fibre crops is off to a good start in the Deseret state. With the help of county extension extens-ion agents and loca Iclub leaders, 4H boy and girls learn to use scientific farming methods. Iin-cluded Iin-cluded are seed bed preparation, plant parasite and disease control, soil analysis and contour farming. Besides gaining useful knowledge 4H club members enrolled in the project are eligible for merit a- iir-jrc amnnntinff tn npnrlv SS 000 given by International Harvester company. The four national scholar ships will be $300 each this year instead of $200. State winners will attend the National 4H club congress con-gress in Chicago next Nov. with all expenses paid. For county winners there will be a gold filled medal of honor. Garth Chambers, Smithfield, won both Cache county and state a-wards a-wards in 1948. Other county medal winners were Layton Morre, Garfield; Gar-field; Thomas Stokes, Grand; Merr ill John, Millard, and Darwin Creze, Weber. The program is supervised by the Cooperative Extension Service. |