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Show - I FARM NOTES I BY LEW MAR PRICE j County A senl j ' ' " " " ' " ' ' ' r . Delegates Return From U. S. A. C. Short Course ) Delegates ' from Beaver ' county I ,, . who were in attendance at the ; - adult leader's training school at ' the Utah State Agricultural col lege returned Friday after an eleven-day program. They are j Mrs. Ira Yardley and Carlyle j Smith. Unfortunately, Milford and Minersville did not send delegates. dele-gates. Representatives from this county coun-ty expressed themselves as highly pleased with the course of study, the special lectures and the high type of entertainment furnished them while at the state college as charges of the extension service. Very few dull moments were allowed al-lowed to creep into the period during which the conference was in session. Activities of an educational edu-cational or recreation nature were arranged by members of the extension ex-tension service from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. or later each day with the j exception of a few "open" dates when the delegates found their own pastimes. While the central theme of the conference was the economic development de-velopment and use of irrigation, culinary and livestock; water, many more topics of general and timely interest were introduced. They included planning programs for county, state and national agriculture; problems of rural youth, agricultural credit, rural rehabilitation and resettlement, rural health problems, living better bet-ter on present incomes, the social security act and its provisions and benefits; dairying, household management, nutrition and clothing. cloth-ing. National, regional, state and college officials appeared on special lecture programs. ' Speakers Speak-ers included Governor H. Blood, President E. G. Peterson and Director Di-rector William Peterson of the college, President F. P. Champ of the board of trustees, T. H. Hum-pherys, Hum-pherys, state engineer; Eugene Merritt and W. A. Lloyd of the extension service. United States Department of agriculture, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C; and a number of college professors and staff members. mem-bers. "The extension service staff is proud to have been associated with such a splendid group of f farm men and women," Director Peterson said in commenting on the conference. "We feel that many worthwhile things came out of the class work, the lectures, the discussions and, perhaps above all, the associations developed, de-veloped, and we look forward to the time when these delegates will return to their respective counties and impart to their fellow workers work-ers much of the knowledge they have gained here." Applicant's Farm To Be Appraised Ap-praised in New Program All corn and hog bases under the new adjustment program will be determined by the appraisal method which permits the assignment assign-ment of equitable bases to cooperating cooper-ating producers. This is a new procedure under adjustment contracts. con-tracts. Community committeemen, familiar fa-miliar with the farms in their neighborhoods, will make the appraisals. ap-praisals. The county allotment committee will check their recorrt-mendations recorrt-mendations and iron out any inequalities in-equalities that may exist among producers and among the various communities in the county. The state board of review will make (Continued on last page) Farm Notes (Continued from first page) such adjustments as are necessary in order to insure uniform treatment treat-ment among counties. The farm of every applicant for a corn-hog contract will be appraised. Bases under the first adjustment adjust-ment programs were determined by the historical method only, using the average production figures fig-ures for 1932 and 1933. The adjustments ad-justments required from the historical his-torical bases, however, were unfair un-fair to some producers. Localized drouths, especially in the northwestern corn belt in 1933, additional whims of the weather and other abnormal factors fac-tors were the reasons why the historical corn and hog bases in many areas were either too low or too high. Some farmers, too, made good land-use 'adjustments before the agricultural adjustment adjust-ment programs were put into effect ef-fect and have been unable to cooperate-in the programs without their farming operations off balance. Committeemen, in making the appraisals, will take into account the type of farming followed, the land use practices, the kind of soil, the production in recent years, the lay of the land, the equipment for farming, and other factors affecting corn and hog production on the farm. Fair bases to all contract signers sign-ers and a proper use of the land are major objectives of the appraisal ap-praisal procedure. The establishment establish-ment of fair bases will not only make the program attractive to a larger number of farmers, but will make it possible for new producers to take part in the adjustment ad-justment program. |