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Show Agricultural Leaders Hear Discussions of Utah. Farm Problems More than 150 agricultural leaders from 29 Utah counties meeting at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural College adult leadership tiaining school being held from December 5 to 14, are considering w ays in which Utah's agricultural economic problems can be solved, Director William Peterson of the Extension Service reports. The school began with a greeting greet-ing frm E. G. Peterson, president oi the college, who urged confidence confid-ence and cooperation among the delegates and pointed out that many of the things they learned would be from each other rather .ban exclusively for the special speakers. President Peterson also slated that agriculture has a future greater than any past it ever had and there is something eternal about agriculture which makes it admirable even in its present distress." William Peterson set forth the a,; ii of the training school this I yt He defined the meaning of a leader as one who could guide : i -.ivp, go ahead solving pro-. pro-. i-.-nij aid blazing new trails. The I srobionis discussed by the director di-rector are: consideration of wise ' se ot rei ourcc, health problems, vva'.e'" usage, land finance, federal iv eiicies and their work in connection con-nection with Utah farmers and farm organizations. Marvin O. Ashton, member of the presiding Bishopric ,of the L. D. S. church, while discussing Utah's culture at the third session ses-sion of the leadership school declared de-clared that "we have inherited something in culture, and have developed some of it trying to keep up our environment. Commenting Com-menting on present day culture and civilization, Bishop Ashton said that nothing is putting on a hole in our present day life as large as is liquor and tabocco. Other .speakers at the school were Dr. W. U. Fuhriman, associate associ-ate professor of agricultural economics econ-omics and marketing, wdio spoke on "productive trends in Utah's" sliding that money yield, crop, and animal yield on the farm nad all : I, own a marked decrease since l.-i:;.). Dr. O. J. Whcatloy, extension economist, spoke on the comparative receipts and expenditure expendi-ture for the years 1910 and 1989, j.ind the slump into which we have . (alien. I Ward C. Ilolbrook, president of ! i ; 1 1 1-;o m Bureau in Utah, spoke -o n the contribution of the Bureau to tin- problems of agncultur. He st.iled that the main problems of I the farmers today are: the reduced re-duced size r,f each binning unit, advance of noxious weed, and depiction of soil fertility, j !. i -vi r.-il open form discussions vi re le ld so that all the leaders could give their views on the problems pro-blems being considered, i |