American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1914-05-16
A Farm Demonstration
For Utah County
People Of This County should Get
Busy and Secure Part Of state
and National Appropriations
for This Purpose.

Or. Robert ]. Evans came in from
Millard county Thursday for brief
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. J. Evans.
DR.. Evans is In charge OF all the
county and district farm demonstra-
tors In Utah. He is working under
the Joint supervision Of the general
and state governments. the U. s..
Agricultural Department and the State
Agricultural College.
An appropriation OF several thou
sand dollars has been made by con-
gress and like amount by the state
OF Utah to pay for the employment
OF agricultural experts to work among
the farmers Ia the several counties.
The counties In. which the work is
done must help TO meet the expenses
jointly with the state and national
governments.
These experts are called county
farm demonstrators. They visit with
the farmers. and besides imparting
Of their own information, they study
the reasons for success among the
successful farmers and communicate
this information to the less success
full ones. AS they visit from farm to
farm gathering and dispensing infor-
nation the work of the successful
farmers acts as a levening OF the
whole .'and thus raising the standard
OF the whole county. They also hold
farmers meetings and help to form
farmers organizations, and thus bring
the farmers In closer touch with each
other.
Several Of the counties have already
fAken advantage Of this assistance
from the state and nation and Dr.
Evans reports that while the work lie
less than a year old. II has been pro-
ductive OF much good and more coun-
ties are asking that they be given an
opportunity for cooperation. How
ever. the first appropriation being
limited was soon exhausted. so that
but part OF the county applications
could be accommodated.
The doctor draws attention to the
fact that the Lever bill providing for
additional appropriations was this
week passed through one branch OF
congress. and undoubtedly will pass
the other branch. II provides SUM-
Client funds to employ six more DEM
onstrators In Utah. The rule fol-
lowed In the past by the agricultural
college has been TO all the applica-
tons In the order that they come In
In from the different districts. Al
ready two, additional counties have
their applications In. leaving but four
more available.
Utah county should at once make
application for one OF the four vacan-
cies. II Is the richest agricultural
county In the state and produces the
greatest variety OF crops of any
county In the state. There Ia no place
whore demonstration could do more
effective work. Some men last year
mede $500 per acre from their fruit,
Others operated at loss. Some men
produced similar profit from grow
ms celery. while similar soil In other
places were yielding crops OF but n
tenth as valuable. Some dry farmers
afd harvesting wheat that yields fifty
bushels per acre; others fail to har-
vest any. Some second stands Of al
felfa are harvested before second
crop has hardly commenced to grow
N other fields. Some orchardists pro-
duce a hundred dollars worthof beans
between their trees, while others get
no revenue at all while their trees
are coming into bearing. and all this
variety VI conditions can be found In
one little county where the conditions
all over are practically the same. In
the stock growing line some dairy
cows are producing big profit while
others produce loss to the owners,
and someg rowers OF beef cattle get
20 per cent more per head on an
average than do their neighbors.
We know Of no more profitable way
IN which the county could expend say
$1,000 per year than to get I'm its
application at once for the privilege
OF cooperating on farm demonstra-
ton. Every farmers organisation and
club In the county should
send delegates to the next meeting OF
the county commissioners and ask
them to take the necessary steps be-
fore the new appropriation has been
exhausted.