Utah State University - Buzzer Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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I v CARDON CHARGED WITH the responsibility of conducting researches designed to solve those major agricultural and rural life problems with which farmers individually are unable to cope successfully. the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station comprises one of three major divisions of the College—interior instruction anti agricultural extension being the other two. The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, established in I8S‘ , has contributed regularly and constructively to the advancement of agriculture in this state. Many farm practices now generally applied in Utah are based upon or have been modified by the findings of the Experiment Station. A staff of forts trained investigators is now engaged with more than sixty research problem which may be grouped roughly under the following heads: Geology, veterinary science, bacteriology. chemistry, dairy husbandry, human nutrition, agronomy, irrigation and drainage, poultry husbandry, soils, range management, physics, botany, plant pathology, animal husbandry, entomology. rural sociology, home economics, and agricultural economics. Most of the investigational work is done in research laboratories on the College campus, but the Experiment Station also operates experimental farms located in Cache, Davis. Juab. San IVte. Garfield, Carbon. I intah, and San Juan Counties. Paob ts

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WILLIAM M PETERSEN THE l I All I. XI ENSION SERVICE is a cooperative federal and state agency created to help further the interests of Utah farms and rural homes. It carries to the farms and rural homes of this state recent findings of experimental agencies in all parts of America, and aids in adapting suitable practices to local conditions It is the means whereby the recommendations of the Experiment Station and the Agricultural College are broadly applied to the practical probemsof farm and home. It teaches improved farm and home practices through demonstrations conducted by local people. It develop rural leadership among I tah men, women, boys, anti girls. In short, it aims to help make the Utah larm profitable, and the Utah rural home attractive. convenient, healthful and otherwise desirable. In furthering its work, the I tah Extension Service receives liberal assistance from the Extension Service of the I nited States Department of Agriculture. The federal departments not onl administer funds provided by the national Congress for extension work, but it supplies also many field specialists who pay regular visits to I tah in the interest of developing the Extension Service of this state. l» OI II

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DR GEORGE R. HILL GEO BARBER UNDER the leadership of President George R. Hill, Jr., the Alumni Association enjoyed an unusually successful year in 1929. The Alumni Library Endowment Fund, begun in 1927. continued t grow satisfactorily. At the annual Alumni Banquet, held June 2. I‘ 28. the officers of the Association were able to announce that the first objective of $50,000 in pledges had been secured. Incidentally, this was perhaps the largest Alumni Banquet in the history of the Association. with more than three hundred Alumni and guests in attendance. One of the most significant accomplishments of the ssociation during the year was the appointments of lumni key representatives in one hundred towns in the State. I'AOB i«