Show extension Ex service convention reported by director peterson peters on william peterson director of the utah state agricultural collego college extension service recently returned from the regional conference of 0 extension workers in 11 western states at zephyr point on lake tahoe nevada where problems of rural interest were considered since the conference was divided into three parts administrative clothing and horticulture th roctor rector peterson was accompanied by miss susie sanford clothing specialist and arvil ai vil L stark horticulturist ti for utah in 1937 a committee composed of director F r A anderson of colorado and B H crocheron director for california and director peterson was J 1 to prepare and present a report on agriculture and home economics in the 11 western states this was done and at the lake tahoe convention the report was reviewed this report centered around the efforts of the tha extension service in reaching the farm population of the region A review of the personnel conducting extension work was made as was a report of how well the information the workers have to offer is reaching caching the farm people the conclusion was reached that more work must be done for our farmers and especially in boys and girls club work A method of approach was devised which called for the development of a plan of work that will aid in solving the problems of farm people this plan is to be correlated with the efforts of existing government agencies that are operating in the agricultural field director peterson reviewed the physical measurements of the reg ion including topography climate population livestock irrigation reclamation indian lands and national parks he stated that the western region comprises approximately per cent of the total area of the united states |