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Show NORTH TRACT Jay Bea Walker The memorial services for Bennett Ben-nett Abbott were very nice. The house was well filled and the program pro-gram well rendered. There were many out of town people, friends of the family present. In taking a count of thenumber of Ahho"s in the Armed Forces from the M. A. Abbott family it ran to near twenty not counting the sons-in-law Howard Abbott had three son and a daughter in Leon Abbott four sons and a number of step ons-in-law Perry two sons Sylvia two sons Leigh one son George M. two sons Well I don't know just the count but it was a splendid showing. Mrs. Samuel Bennett Abbott, Ab-bott, daughter and mother, returned return-ed to Idaho immediately after the services. M-S Leon Abbott went to Ogden to attend the funeral of a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Abbott. Phil says the police force in Berkeley Berke-ley is noted as being the best rated force in the world. If they're all as big as Phil an as good looking, I don't doubt it. Dr. and Mrs. Twitchell and Kath-erine Kath-erine spent the weekend here as house guests of M-S John Wind. Mrs. Wind entertained at a pot luck supper for the Twitchells. Ike Losee has returned from the LDS Hospital where he has been for about two or three weeks. His health is much improved. M-S Jesse Lee and family and Mr. David Adamson were guests of M-S Arch Poulson last Thursday. David Adamson plans to spend the winter part time here and part time in Salt Lake City to do Temple Tem-ple work. Mrs. Venice Davis entertained at a quilting party last Friday. Ruth Clark Done had a letter Eight farm tenants were assisted in record keeping and 12 received help in filing income tax returns. Fewer farmers needed credit. Two mortgages are being released to each new one recorded. The number of farm loans was cut to less than one-half other years. Farmers are paying debts and building a cash surplus for future use. Neighborhood leaders kept farm families informed on cost of living, rationing, prices and other problems pro-blems and assisted on all community com-munity war work. Land use committees com-mittees have stressed better use of land and irrigation water. A study of all irrigation companies is under way with the hope of saving irrigation irri-gation water. Helping farm people buy and sell farm products and needed supplies sup-plies has become one of the most important services of the Extension Exten-sion program. Nearly every farm family was assisted in some way by this project. Thirty-five car loads of feed grains and supplements, 1000 tons of hay and 3000 bushels of better seed was purchased or located for farmers. More than 210 head of breeding stock was bought and hundreds of head of cattle, sheep, hogs were marketed through assistance as-sistance given by the County Agent. Seed grain, hay, alfalfa seed, potatoes, po-tatoes, fruit, vegetables, eggs, chickens, turkeys and other farm products were sold. Machinery, bath tubs, pressure cookers and other farm and home supplies were located or bought. Farm families receiving assistance bought and sold more than one-half million dollars worth of goods. Farm families have shown considerable con-siderable interest in improving both the interior and exterior of their homes. The women were particularly interested in doing upholstery up-holstery work. Eight upholstery schools were held with an attendance atten-dance of 474 men and women. Old car springs and boards were made into 40 attractive footstools oi ottomans. ot-tomans. Chairs and davenports were upholstered and considerable improvement made in furnishings. Some assistance was given Flo-well Flo-well in obtaining electricity. Twenty-four families were assisted in landscaping home grounds. More of the family food supply than ever before was canned, stored, stor-ed, or placed in freezer lockers. Two hundred and forty-six pressure pres-sure cookers were tested. Demonstrations Demon-strations on preservation of fruits and vegetables and arrangement in lockers, were given to 162 people. peo-ple. Wartime shortages of new ready made clothing as well as new material, ma-terial, made it necessary to utilize clothing on hand. The most interest inter-est in Millard County was in making mak-ing mens clothes into clothes for small children. A total of 148 boys and 249 girls enrolled in club work with 135 boys and 191 girls completing projects. pro-jects. Livestock worth $11,358 was shown and sold by 4-H club members. mem-bers. Two local fairs were held where 138 girls exhibited their work, and 106 modeled their dresses. dress-es. Most exhibits taken to the state fair placed in the blue ribbon rib-bon class. One girl won a trip to Chicago to the National 4-H club conference as a result of outstanding outstand-ing work. Pest control saved the farmers of Millard County more than $200,000 in 1944. Four hundred and fifty-six fifty-six farmers, were assisted with insect in-sect control, 166 farmers with rodent ro-dent control and more than 150 farmers with noxious weed control. More than 100 farmers were assisted assist-ed with animal disease and parasite para-site control. Three car loads of weed chemicals, three and a half cars of insect poison and bait and more than 3 tons of rodent bait were used in control work. Extension agents spent most of their time on production, marketing, market-ing, processing, storage, clothing reconditioning, furniture repair and similar problems contributing to the war effort. Cooperation was given to civilian civi-lian defense, fire prevention, salvage sal-vage drives, bond drives, milk weed pod gathering and other work. Wherever possible cooperation was given to other agencies. Where work overlapped. Extension : agents cooperated in. doing the j job. George Whornham County Agent |