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Show Peterson Gives Annual Report on Extension Work To secure adequate incomes, sufficient suf-ficient nourishing food and adequate ade-quate clothing, to preserve health and maintain self reliance among the rural families of Utah these have been the ends of the Utah Extension iService, Director William Peterson states in his annual Extension Ex-tension Service report. "To these ends the people of the State have worked diligently because, in the final analysis, it I was their own program; planned by them 'in their planning meetings meet-ings and subscribed to enthusiastically enthusias-tically because of the importance of - arriving at solutions to perplexing per-plexing problems confronting them" Director Peterson declares. "Extension "Ex-tension officials, in doing their part to accomplish these ends, have realized that a prosperous people must be a happy people." Director Peterson refaced his report re-port with a review of problems with which "farmers, homemakers and the youth of Utah are faced". The cultivated land area is ser-I ser-I iously limited, the water rights to I tillable acres is insufficient, good I range lands are too scarce, the I farms are small in area and the tendency is to make them smaller 1 in an effort to keep the young people at home, he points out. In the subsequent paragraphs of the 9,000-word review. Director Peterson Pe-terson mentioned the functioning of the county land-use planning boards, and the cooperative attitude atti-tude of the sister agricultural agencies in attaining common goals. The attention, that has been paid stockmen, sugar beet growers, grow-ers, the noxious weed program, the 4-H Club movement, soil conservation conser-vation work and similar projects by the extension service, he recalls. re-calls. I Explanation of the Extension ' Service administration, its relationships rela-tionships with other agricultural ' agencies, its leadership and pro-! pro-! fessional training programs, and j county and home demonstration ; agent work is included. The report is concluded with a review of the ; following extension projects; food ! and nutrition, clothing, home fur- i nishings, agronomy, livestock (beef j cattle, sheep and wool, dairying, ' dairy manufacturing, hogs, and poultry,) horticulture, landscape architecture, farm forestry, extension exten-sion economist work and publicity. |