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Show By Roberl S. Murdock County Agricultural Agent It looks like again this, year, we had a very successful Uintah Basin Industrial Convention, and to my way of thinking, I feel it is the most interesting I have seen in the agricultural program since I arrived here in the Basin. One of the highlights of our program this year was the visit of our Utah State Agricultural College President, Doctor Darrel Chase, who was our featured speaker for Friday morning. As president Chase told you in his address he is very interested in the people of the state and in the rural education program, the boys and girls. The College that he is President of, as he stated, is. a people's college, and he feels it is the people who should direct the activities ot that school'. I know that President Chase is very interested in his work and he means, what he says, because that afternoon he spent four hours with me traveling around our county, meeting people on the farm, looking at alfalfa fields, grain fields, gardens, talking with boys and girls to get a feeling of how he and the people's college could better serve the residents of Duchesne County. He was very interested in our Drainage Program, our drainage ' tour that we had the previous day out to Senor Mortensen's and I Sons. I think that was one of the most successful tours we have I had in the Uintah Basin for a good long time, and I would like i to thank the Kiwanis Club ' for , their support in supplying the I transportation to and from this, , project. As our speakers, James I Barker, irrigation and drainage , specialist, LeMoine Wilson, soil scientist, Utah State Agricultural , Experiment Station, and Paul Christensen, soil, conservationist, i Extension Service, pointed out to you during their program, there I is a lot that we can do individ- ually to better our irrigation and i drainage situations, and Senor I Mortensen is definitely showing a lot of us how land may be re-I re-I claimed and put back to full pro-i pro-i ductivity. ' To sum it all up, it does look i like we had a very successful f U.BJ.C, and I hope that the peo-i peo-i pie in attendance will, remember some of the fine things presented i for your information. Scatter this word around to your neighbors, k to your groups of farmers and city friends. I am sure that you v all know that we here in the Ex- tension Service are very glad to i help you with your farming and home problems, and as you can y see from the type of program pre- sented to you and by the interest of the President of the Utah State Agricultural College in you, and our Extension program, that you can pretty well bet nothing will be spared when it comes to getting information and assistance to those of you that are desirous of improving your farming and your standard of living. I would like to invite you to come in and visit me and Miss Reichert in the Extension Service office, because as I have pointed out to you many times before, I don't believe there is a problem on the farm and in the . home, and I know that takes in a lot of area, but what we can give you some assistance with. I would like to thank you for your fine support, for our fine program this year, and a special thanks to those of you assisting me in the Agricultural Agri-cultural program. |