| Show I Farmers and Dr E. E J. J Evans Evans state leader m to marm farm arm demonstration work in Utah I has as just completed an illuminating I report on the work of or the county I demonstrators throughout the state for or the past year The report is significant in that it reflects tho the modern modern mod- mod ern rn Idea in agricultural education as oPI opposed to the old The time is now here hero when th the state tate school of ot agriculture does more than han instruct the student fortunate enough nough to be able to 0 attend school Today the college carries the message tx to the people How thoroughly this Is B being done dono a brief brier review of th the results accomplished the past year by bythe bythe the he farm demonstrators will wUl show In dairying although most of the demonstrators are operating in counties counties counties coun coun- ties where testing cow-testing associations are are inadvisable at the he present time I nearl nearly 1000 cows have peen Deen tested The purpose of this work is to obtain obtain ob ob- tain sufficient data to convince the farmer of the value of testing the individual production of his cows to eliminate the paying non cows and teach the necessity for better care feeding and selection of his herd Irrigation practices have been In in ted and the universally bad practice of of crops has been largely corrected In Utah county a very fine up date system of water dividing and measuring weirs was Vas Installed under the direction direction tion of or the count county agent and the irrigation Irrigation ir irrigation Ir- Ir specialist Good Drainage Work ork This will accomplish the tho double purpose of distributing the water equitably and of cutting cuttin down the distribution expense Thoro There have been fifteen irrigation systems plan plan-n. ed for the farmers embracing an approximate area orca of or acres of ot land In III Millard county an area of ot some som acres Is now being drained due to ceaseless work on the part of the county demonstrator In Sevier count county county coun coun- t ty the county agent has succeeded in getting through a bond issue of 6 for drainage purposes The drainage district In Sevier count county embraces embraces embraces em em- braces about acres of oC land laud Iu Tip six other counties similar drainage projects are under way or being planned In all there have been thirty-one thirty drainage systems planned covering an area of acres of land exclusive o of the Sevier county project The improvement ment of oC crops has been belm beena belma a problem for nearly nearh all the demon demon- The most productive varieties varieties vari varl eUes of wheat have been Introduced seed potatoes have been shipped Inand in inand inand and definite work in the development of ot silage corn has been done Dise Diseases ses Eliminated Campaigns against crop diseases met with remarkable success Grain Grahl I and potato diseases were fought taught b by means of or chemical treatment Much erre effective Uve work against the alfalfa weevil and the grasshopper was done Hog cholera was and stamped stamp stamp- ed out wherever it developed Farm management demonstrations were made in six areas of the state embracing a about out farms The were taken by the county count agent assisted by the farm management manage manage- ment meat demonstrator and the state leader were checked by the farm management demonstrator and the he state stale leader were worked up largely large large- ly by the farm management demonstrator demonstrator demon demon- demonstrator and to the farmers by all the mentioned above-mentioned parties Through this system the farmers were reached in a evry eny definite way their business being thoroughly analyzed analyzed analyzed ana ana- either by the county agent orthe or orthe orthe the farm management demonstrator and their business reorganized In the light of the information information obtained through the tabulated records Practically Practically Practically every farmer whose record was taken and returned a feeling of satisfaction about the system system tem tern and requested that the work be continued Record books prepared especially for this line of ot work w were re replaced placed In the hands of ot practically all all of these farmers The records of ot the year of 1915 will DO no taken from irom these books i Has Broad Scope During the year ear farms J were Jre re visited where some definite pro problem lem was taken up with the farmers Two I thousand eight hundred and twenty twenty- twenty seven different farmers were reach reached reach ed d in these visits Sixteen hu hundred dred and seventy seven farmers called atthe at atthe atthe the agents' agents offices Five hundred and twenty-three twenty meetings with a total attendance of ot persons were held At of or these meetings det de- finite assistance e was rendered l by specialists of the Agricultural C college lIege or the United States department of or agriculture One hundred se seventy seventy- nty- nty eight visits to the schools of the counties were made where school problems were discussed Thirty Thirty- eight schools were assisted by the agents in developing agricultural in in- six Forty-six observation excursions ex ox were run by the agents In which farmers took part These were made to observe the best systems toms of work In operation in various parts of or each county In addition to this personal contact contact con con- tact work the agents wrote agri cultural articles for local papers sent out to farmers circulars and circular circular circular cir cir- cir cir- cular letters distributed state and federal bulletins and wrote letters to Individual farmers |
