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Show Counties Without Agents Greatly Handicapped Says j Director Peterson of U A C It will be to the distinct advantage advant-age of farmers in counties where no agricultural agents are employed, to bend every effort to bring about a agreement between the counties and the federal government for the employment em-ployment of agents, is the opinion of Director William Peterson of the U. S. A. C. Extension Service. The placing of emergency agents in various counties of the state at governmental expense entirely, during dur-ing the wheat production control campaign was a movement of the AAA to get the program under way without delay, but this arrangement will not be continued in the present or future programs without financial finan-cial cooperation from the counties. Utah agents, .will be engaged for tne nexr two years or more m carrying car-rying out the provisions of the AAA in wheat, corn-hog, and dairy-beef programs, Director Peterson points out. Benefit payments are forthcoming forth-coming to all farmers who qualify nuder any or all of the plans, but in non-agent counties the farmers will be handicapped because no local lo-cal representative of the government govern-ment will be employed to assist in explaining the provisions of the contracts or to intercede in the farmers' behalf. If the farmer benefits ben-efits under the program he is compelled com-pelled to contact a county agent in some nearby county. The cc operative plan by which the agents are employed calls for the county to pay for the travel and office expense of the agent and the government to pay the salary. An opportunity for cooperation on this plan has been afforded each county of Utah through the county commissioners, Director Peterson report. |