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Show Peat land field Day Is Set for Sanpete County Last evening the following commutes, commu-tes, on the call of the County Agent, C. O. Stott, met at the city hall at Ephralm: Jacob Thompson, state representative rep-resentative from Sanpete and President Presi-dent of the drainage district, Mayor Henry Thompson of Ephralm. President Presi-dent J. A. Golden of the Lions Club, LeMoyne Wilson, Superintendent of the State Peat Lands Experiment Station Sta-tion and County Agent Stott, and set July 23 rd for the Experiment Station Field Day. A days program of activities was outlined beginning with a twenty minute min-ute meeting at 10:00 a. m. at the Experiment Ex-periment Station building on the farm including a tour by foot of the farm itself and surrounding fields; refreshments refresh-ments at noon, and ending up with an automobile tour of the areas in crops to the south and below Manti an the peat area. Director P. V. Cardon of the state experiment station, Dr. George Stewart, Stew-art, agronomist. Prof. Aaron Bracken of Nephl station, Director Wm. Peterson Pet-erson of the Extension Service, W. H Olin, Supervisor of Agriculture of the D. & R. G. W. Railroad and others will be In attendance at this 2nd annual an-nual field day. A general invitation Is being extended to all of the farmers farm-ers of the county and to the farmers and county agents of the adjacent counties. Crops on the area have never looked look-ed better, oats and barley bid fair to yielding 100 bushels to the acre, with coming peas, sugar beets, potatoes, etc. In proportionate yields. Supt. Wilson Is elated over the prospects this year. This 6000 acres of peat land is the largest Inland area of such land in the west. |