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Show COUNTY AGENTS IRE VALUABLE TO FARMERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE The t-ountv agent In without doul t the mont Important fnttor In the de velopmmt of th new ngriiubure In t tnh won Salt UxUrn Tribune I rnctlcal Information on farming dl-cm dl-cm end In the laborntorlea in vnluelpxn unloM It reneheii thp farmer, nnd the count) agent In the tnot vnluablo factor fac-tor In dlwmlnntlng thin Infnrmntlon At the present time Halt Ijtko count), with ten other cntinller I profiting greatl) b) having Itn farmer limtrur-ted limtrur-ted dnll) at the linmln of the fnrm expert ex-pert There are nine of thenc ! agent In the state two of whom cover two countie each Itobrrt II Blew-nrt Blew-nrt cover Carbon und Knirr) countle and K II llarrl Ulntnh and Du-chexne Du-chexne The work ha grown cr) rnpldl) flnro It Inauguration In nil, nnd till )rnr received n eclnl Impetus Im-petus In the melted appropriation provided for In the fnmou Hmlth-l-eer bill The count) ngmt. or hi t rototype hnd hi beginning In thl ttiuntr) about fifteen )enr ago, In the Hon-them Hon-them Htnte when II hetnitc nece-xnr) nece-xnr) for the rottimgrower to organize organ-ize In order to protect thelrtlndutr) from the rnvnge of the rotton lmll weevil The result of the movement was tin districting of the cotton nren nnd the hiring of un expert to supervise super-vise inch dlrtrlrt The work wn lm-medintil) lm-medintil) rue cessf ul beiituse tin far-mem far-mem with hi expert ndvlre wire nble to control tin weevil to siith an txtcnt that the cotton Indtistr) wn mtvtd from wlmt liHiked to be cirtnlu dtstruitlou llciniiarkV I luo Itxumpb AIhiih 1850 it similar sysli in wn ertnbllshed In Denmark nnd h it result re-sult that nation ha rim u from pov-ert) pov-ert) to n vei) piospirou laud In fact Dcmmiik I the ngibulluml tdn noineiion of tin tlmi Hhe tin lenined the seen I of iii opt rntlini both In produitluu nnd In mark ting nnd lm iMlueiiteil her peiiple mnlul) through hi r farm expert Count) ugi nl work began lu Ptnh In 1911 when U M Wlnsur now Irrl-KHtlon Irrl-KHtlon expiit for the state wn pent Into the t IuIhIi Itastu hh fnrm expert Mime thin the work ha gmdimll) nnd slendlU grown until nt the present pres-ent thin Hhoiil half tin state In nren anil more than half lu imputation I leielvlng expirt ailvbe i-instnntl frum thee men L'lb Imt u mw movement tin work I nnd lias bei II subjei t to mm Ii opposition op-position most of whbh come from the bind shark tlther directly or Indlrectl) V'ler mi III ntlempt to get the count) ngmt to In lp nell their latiils. Himeinisirupulou niil i stale men liuvi luiiuihnl iiimpulgn ngalnsl the ngelit nnd huvi silxcd ivir) op-poitunlt) op-poitunlt) to thwart hi plan. One limn wim nlmorl ilrlviu from hi count) b) tin se land xhntk. Vgiut I'lnciil On Trial In addition to thl positive hindrance, hin-drance, tount) ngenl work ha bun subjict to tho i vcie critic bin nnd discouragement width nn nlwit) In tore for a mw Idea Parmer are it n rii)ir) wlsil) courervntlve nnd the prai tic ablllt) nnd urifulms or u new Idea must be thoroughl) demon-slrntnl demon-slrntnl before the) will uecipt It In Halt IJike i mint) It fell to thn let of II J Wibb to prove to the furmer theie Hint the i-ount) ngent wn nn-intir) nn-intir) to thilr agricultural progren and sue cess, lie wn on trial for one mason At the end of Unit reason u mil meeting of tin Hull Uike lount) furmir wn hi Id to kct the opinion of thn people u to whilhir tin work wu n sue i ewe or tint Webb came to the inciting. Ign irnnt or tin real purpose' pur-pose' thereof, und not knowing that he was to be on trial He remained In the rear or the hnll nnd listened sfisll nm) breathlessly to the proceeding pro-ceeding or the meeting Pnrmer nt-ter nt-ter farmer arose nnd expressed hi nipmral of Wchh'n work He so Veil m) hog by showing tne hi w to eheek the cholera He hiwed me how to select m) potn-tof potn-tof In order to get the best )leld. He told me to tilant wiet tlover In mv swamp land I rouldn t raise n ell tuitmnee nn thn land before, nnd now 1 get n crop of hn) nnd about n htindted dollar worth of seed I e-side e-side These nn sample of the exprcs-sb exprcs-sb n. Needles to ml) the meeting resulted lu n wholesale and enthusiastic enthusias-tic nppiovnl of tount) ngent work lu Halt I.nke count) lie Mu-t He n Hxicn. The life of the count) ngent I t) no mean n simple one The requirement require-ment made of him nn legion Ho must have n wonderful fund of working work-ing Infotmntlou III knowledge must cover ever) brnlieh or rnrm work Hi must know the various crop nnd weed, their relation to soil nibl in fixture nnd thn plant disease as-noilated as-noilated with them He must know the breed of fnrm animal their feeding nnd rnre, nnd the treatment of their common ailment tleslde count) ngent ho I enlled 'professor exiert . dot tor etc lie I asked every iiurstlon from What the mat ter with in) burse foot to 'What wi mg with my bnb) Tin count) ngent I eseelitlall) n productive unit True he uses up taxation but thl ninounl I Imiinsld entitle iiimpared with what he xetvex the fnrmei each )cnr either In preventing pre-venting loseo or In encouraging bet tirfHrmlng thcreb) produtlng larger emits Por example he would pa) for lilmstir b) cliiHklim it single out-break out-break or hog ilmli rn lie bi n e-nirler of fnit nnd experl-hi experl-hi ii Norn one fai tin r to nuolher When In rind n runner who l making mak-ing giMtd he determine why nnd then priwe-il id tell the neighboring far-met far-met of thl mans stietes He I supreme su-preme lu hi own count) anil Initiate nil kind of plans and Ingenlou wlirnm to rowell the hxttrlH of the people sin ti ) I'nllo Vnliiiibb. lu some counties survey have bee it, made or n iiumbi r or n presi Illative fin in In certain hHitlltli whbh shun the slue of each fnrm the amount of cnpllal lepresi iiIchI the diversity of the hitslnetw and the prof It ni e ruing tlnnrroni Thl surve) show ever) detail or the farming huslnc, In liming out the weak its well n the stntng renture of each fat Ml Hurve) huvi been eitmplited In ll)tle Park und Hand), and also In Millard nnd Hivler eountle The prime value of these record I that each runner i nil mc vvli) he I fulling nnd wh) hi lielghlHtr I silieeedluu During the past )rnr two hundred nnd lift) fariinr lu Utnh have retelvcd letord or their Individual farm. The rinext combination or farming et found In I'talt I lu ll)de Park win re the) have dalnlng dr) farming and sugar bee t raising Count) ugint wink otn up u m w nnd I road Held for the right kind or ii mull A rust hn the fund will penult, thl part of the extension stafr or thn Utah Agricultural college will be IntrcuNcd Tin re I room for sevt nil expert In einli count), und n the lountlt themxelve tome to rml-Ue rml-Ue thl fait the) will le ml Increased support to the movement which mi una s i much to their progress |
