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Show FARMHOMEki 7 Leuu Jl. Jensen County Aricultuxel &ant Survey Favor Extension Service Ninety-three per cent of the Utahns questioned in a recent, survey agreed that the agents of the Cooperative Extension Service had influenced farm people to use better farming and horaemaking methods. The same survey found that 84 per cent of the farm people in Utah are favorable toward the Extension Service, while 15 per cent were neither for nor against. The same survey found one per cent of the people held unfavorable opinions toward the cooperative service. The survey wag conducted by Stephen L. Brower, a graduate student of the Utah State " Agricultural Agri-cultural college.. Dr. R. W. Roc-kelley. Roc-kelley. associate' professor of sociology, so-ciology, was chairman of the thesis committee directing the survey. The results of the survey sur-vey were published as Extension Exten-sion Bulletin 209. Pollster Brower found that 37 per cent of the information which people have about important im-portant problems comes directly from some phase of the Extension Exten-sion Service program. They received re-ceived this information directly from county agricultural and home demonstration agents, or news articles, radio scripts or bulletins prepared by Extension Service personnel. People who own their farms expressed . more favorable at- I titudeg than others, as did the ! people who lived on medium ! sieed farms. Farm families who have children between the ages of 10 and 20 years, tended to express more favorable attitudes atti-tudes than other groups. The farming group which received more than 50 per cent of their income from farming were also more favorable than the group which received a lesser percentage. per-centage. The Cooperative Extension Service system, supported by county, state and federal funds, places professionally trained people in counties of the state and charges them to use the resources re-sources of science and education In working with people. With the aid of subject matter specialists from the Land Grant college, they ere expected to help people of all ages and backgrounds discover and solve the problems which affect their economic, social, moral and spiritual spir-itual welfare. Problems about which farm people received help from the Extension Service were numerous numer-ous and included: livestock and crop production, crop rotation, farm management, marketing livestock and agricultural products, pro-ducts, soil conservation, weed control, selection of seeds and feeds, herd management, livestock live-stock breeding programs, egg and poultry production, turkey production, diseases of farm flocks and animals, insect and pest control, social and economic econom-ic problems, recreation, family relationship, home management, horticulture, food preparation and conservation, clothing construction, con-struction, home planning, decoration, deco-ration, insulation and beautifi-cation. beautifi-cation. and purchasing consumer consum-er products. The results of the survey indicated in-dicated that the more people know about the Extension Ser-, vice, the more favorable they are to the program. It was also found that people with higher levels of formal education, as indicated by school grades completed, com-pleted, tended to express more favorable attitudes toward the service than individuals with limited amounts of formal schooling'. Farm people in the most productive age group 25 to 43-tended to express more favorable attitudes toward the Extension Service than individuals individ-uals In the younger age groups or In the older age groups. |