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Show i Utah County Agents Make Many Contacts During Past Year Tn his annual report W. W. Owens, assistant director for agriculture ag-riculture of the extension service of the Utah State Agricultural college, includes a summary of the contacts made by the 22 county agricultural agents for the state during the past year. Mr. Owens shows that the agents made a total of 24,481 farm visits; attended to 34,210 office of-fice calls, exclusive of telephone : conversations; held 1,418 demonstration demon-stration meetings that were at- I tended by 47,347 persons. In addition addi-tion to this 2,109 other meetings were held, making a total of 3,52': meetings held with an attendance' of 165,306 persons. In close cooperation with the county agents 2,754 volunteer leaders stood ready to assist in carrying out the extension program pro-gram in the state. Judging from the number of news articles i written by the agents the public has been well informed regarding the plans and programs of extension worker f Mr. Owens reports that 2,662 items were published in the state and county papers during the past year. |