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Show EXTENSION AGENTS MAKE PLANS FOR COMING YEAR ' On the camus of the USAC last week, members of the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural Extension ., Service, staff attending the annual extension conference heard 'Reuben Brig-ham, Brig-ham, assistant director, of. the national na-tional extension service make an urgent plea that the "right people peo-ple be placed on farms. "Every year in the United States we have at last 100,000 highly productive farmers for which new management manage-ment must be found," Mr. Brig-ham Brig-ham stated, "It becomes increasingly increas-ingly vital that the productivity of the farm be maintained and that it be properly managed because the farm is an important asset that must not become impaired." To solve this problem Mr. Brig-ham Brig-ham urged that anxious and able yuong people who have had proper prop-er training go into these farms. States, President Peterson pointed out that this country has 68,000,-000 68,000,-000 beef cattle; 83,000,000 sheep; 65,000,000 hogs; 13,000,600 bales of cotton, , 817,000,000 1 : bushels ;;of wheat, 2,500,000,000 ' bushels" of corn; '114,000,000 pounds' of ; milk; 38,000,000,000 eggs and 2,000,000 tons of sugar, . ., Mr. and Mrs'.' Leonard H. Elm-nirst, Elm-nirst, British economists, stated that the diets of the English people peo-ple have suffered because of shortages of milk and dairy products pro-ducts such as butter and cheese. Cheese, they pointed out is one of the most important items in the Englishman's diet. Eggs and meat are also greatly restricted in Britain. "Food from the United States is the life line of the nation," He also stressed the improtance of increasing agricultural production to meet wartime needs of this country and Britain. "If all the foodstuffs required for Britain in 1942 were placed on railroad cars, it would form a train that would reach from New York to Los Angeles, California," Cali-fornia," Mr. Brigham stated. Dr. E. G. Peterson, president of the college, told the staff that "this country holds two most effective ef-fective weapons in this world conflict, con-flict, food and inexhaustable industrial in-dustrial output. Each farmer is virtually a soldier in the fighting forces. Work behind the lines in feeding the civilian population and those in the service is just as essential es-sential as the work of the men on the fighting fronts." To show what rich supplies of food were available in the United Mrs. Elmhirst declared, "I wish I could describe the gratitude of the people in England when gifts of food and clothing come from A-merica." A-merica." "Farmers in Britain have prices fixed for all commodities they sell," said Mr. Elmhirst. "They are watched carefully and must take good car eof their farms or they will be moved off and more efficient farmers take their places. pla-ces. Director Peterson an dhis as-snstants as-snstants urged the staff members to help organize families within their counties so that each member mem-ber will be assigned some definite responsibility in the farm and homc enterprise. The agents wre urged to follow planning programs more closely and to carry specific projects to completion. |
