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Show . , News In Brief Two educational training schools Tor Utah farmers will be concluded at the Utah State Agricultural college col-lege this week, when club leaders adjourn from the nineteenth annual an-nual 4-H club leaders training school and farmers leave the college's col-lege's annual school of iirigation. Eugene Merritt. senior extension economist with the department of agricui.ure, was a special guest speaker at the club leaders school, and the irrigation school program rrliiried talks bv a number of ex perts on irrigation practices,, including in-cluding representatives of the state engineer's office and of the college faculty. The club school is being reld from February 28 to March 5, and the irriagtion school began on Ftbiuary 28 and will last till March 1th. Cropeiating with the United States department of agriculture, the Utah State Agricultural college extension service will be prepared to distribute 150,000 eastern red cedars at a nominal cost, to serve as windbieaks on Utah and Nevada farms, according to J. Whitney Floyd, extension fcester at the .'ollege. The red cedar trees are recommended for windbreaks on Utah and Nevada farms, according to J. Whitney Floyd, extension fore-oas'er fore-oas'er at the college. The red cedar ce-dar t ees are recommended for windbreak purposes because they grew rapidly and branch out to form compact, year-round foliage, Mr. Floyd points out. Seeding ol trees to serve as windbreaks is urged as a measure to protect farm animals and crops from the weather weath-er and the farm oil from the effects ef-fects of erosion. America's farm livestock was worth $4,819,811,000 on January 1, 1938. according to a bureau of agricultural ag-ricultural economics report issued recently. Of this amount, catfle accounted for more than two billion bil-lion dollars; the nations horses were worth just over a billion; mules worth half a billion; sheep, $323,000,000; and hogs, about half a billion dollars. The total value cf Utah livestock at the same time was $40,304,000. Prcduction of agricultural products prod-ucts for sale or for home consump-ion consump-ion was larger in 1937 than in any year of governmental record, a re- port issued through the bureau of agricultuial economics and released early this week states. Agricultural Agricul-tural production was 108 per cent of the 1924-29 average, compared with 95 por cent in 1936, and 107 per cent, the p evious record, in 1931. Cxop production was 113 per cent of the 1924-29 average, and livestock production 104 per cent. Grain production, however, has been trending downward since 1920 nd-c.fon production, after an increase in-crease from 1921 to 1926, has remained re-mained nearly constant. X More than 22 000 bushels of potatoes po-tatoes have been purchased by the Federal Surplus Commodities corporation cor-poration from Utah farmers during dur-ing the past year as a part cf a nation-wide surplus-disposal pro-gitttr.'. pro-gitttr.'. At least 3,500,000 bushels wore purchased throughout the country. Crops pu chased under the commissions authcriaztion are being diverted to relief uses. |