Show I I I i I I i I I Farmers Will WID lose Service In Co Ca By William Peterson A note has bas Just been received I from the county clerk of Sanpete county notifying the dIre director tor of the Extension Service that tho the county count commissioners have haye made inquiry of the farmers of Sanpete county in regard to employing a county term farm agent and that they como come to the conclusion that conditions do donot donot donot not warrant the employment of a county agent at the present time Ume The statement of employment I might be Just a little misleading in as the policy of ot the Utah State Agricultural college through the Extension Service is i to Pl pay the tho entire salary of the agent and the Is only requested to 10 furnish furnish furn furn- furnish ish an office office help land and traveling expenses This conclusion of the county commissioners is regret regret-ahle in th that t Sanpete County is one of the better agricultural counties of the state and in this agricultural depression depression depression de de- ia u. lively county agent ought to be of or great help both to the farm and the home and In the care of or club work with the bosI boys bos and girls Sanpete County has had the as assistance assistance as- as of s a a county agent since June 1917 when Theron W. W Bennion Bennion Bennion Ben- Ben nion was appointed to th the positions position Mr Bennion served until March farch 1919 when Lowry Nelson assumed county countr agent duties in Sanpete and shortly after atter Mr Nelson Nolson left leftIn leftin in the fall of 1919 1918 Mr Stott wa waa appointed Mr Stott served continually continually continually con con- until the fall of 1930 The salary has been held for a count county agent in Sanpete until this notice was received by the Extension Extension Extension Exten Exten- sion Service This fund is now going to- to o. o ing to another county and Sanpete co county nty will be put on the list awaiting future developments and adjustments which means t there will Tie ue no agent there for at least two or three years According to the 1930 census there are people in Sanpete I county and there are 1703 farms In drawing comparisons there are only five other counties In the state of Utah which have larger numbers of farms The county agents agent's program of vork for foe 1930 was Intensive and touched many phases of rural liv liv- ing The Tho projects included dairying dairying dairy dairy- in ing poultry wool marketing crop pests road work sugar beet culture culture cul cul- ture tU e soil fertility irrigation irritation canning canning can- can l. l ning crops fire automobile In In- In Burance t es cooperative purchasing purchasing pur pur- chasing cooperative marketing city beautification forestry H 4 Club work wheat pool and also some phases of women's work WhIch was carried oft with the assistance assistance as as- tance of the county agent by bythe bythe bythe the specialists from the college The Tho failure to make mako appropriations appropriations I Ions for the traveling of the coun- coun Ity ly ty agent and his office otrIce upkeep will virtually mean that all an extension exten- exten sion exten-sion sion n work will be he withdrawn from the county because it Is found round unprofitable un un- profitable to send into counties where their work cannot bo followed up by the count county agent |