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Extension, Enterprise, and Education: The Legacy of Co-operatives and Cooperation in Utah: The Work of the USU Extension

The Work of the USU Extension

The Extension Office provided classes and training for both the field and the home. The pictures below show how agricultural agents and home demonstration agents influenced farmers, their wives, and the world around them.

Agricultural Agent: Environment

Extension Service Building, Utah State University

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 39-004.)

Agent’s car covered with promotional dairying posters

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 012 Fd. 25-002.)

Agent’s car covered with promotional dairying posters

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 12 Fd. 25-001.)

Pruning and thinning results studied in the Richard Carlquist demonstration orchard

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 10 Fd. 2-010.)

Here we see Mrs. Albert B. Barton, a Kaysville Relief Society President. This garden was planned by the agents and J. C. Hogenson, an extension agronomist, and was planted by Mr. and Mrs. Barton according to the plan given them. You will note the picture shows how the use of farm implements for cultivation is made possible by the long row system.

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 30-008.)

Group of farmers on a field tour inspecting sugar beet and potato fields

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 008 Fd. 18-009.)

Agent certifying wheat and seed

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 11-004.)

Group of farmers inspecting irrigation methods of the Experimental Farm of the American Smelting & Refining Company

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 008 Fd. 18-008.)

A close-up view of the debris which passed over the canal and which was, in part, removed from the canal in restoring service in the canal system. It is understood that the farmers were without water for a period of two weeks on account of this flood.

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 29-004.)

Debris carried down and across the canal and into farm lands north of Honeyville. This canal, along the west base of Wellsville Mountain, flows south and is a part of the water distribution system from the Cutler Dam, a Federal Reclamation Reservoir.

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 29-003.)

Stock-watering developments

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 13-002.)

Stock-watering pond

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 13-001.)

Image of erosion and landslide caused by overgrazing [Click image to enlarge.]

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, University Extension Service Reports, University Archives, 19.1/1:47 Box 91.)

Sheep trails near Cutler and Cold drainages [Click image to enlarge.]

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, University Extension Service Reports, University Archives, 19.1/1:47 Box 91.)

Landslide [Click image to enlarge.]

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, University Extension Service Reports, University Archives, 19.1/1:47 Box 91.)

Picture of one of the demonstrations in connection with the building program: “Dairy set-up on the farm of Orson Clark, showing the milk house, milking parlor, corrals, and construction on lounging shed in back-ground.”

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 43-003.)

Eugene Nielsen and Peter Andersen demonstrate physical cooperation in log sawing at the State Fair

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 010 Fd. 04-009.)

Rodent control to preserve crops

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 07-003.)

Agricultural Agent: Animals

Professor Caine demonstrating sheep judging on a Rambouillet ram

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 010 Fd. 21-003.)

First carload of poultry leaving central Utah for Southern California. Shipped by Central Utah Poultry Exchange.

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 010 Fd. 17-001.)

Cal Tebbs with bull [Click image to enlarge.]

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 32-001.)

Huntington Hereford Day horse show

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 16-002.)

County Extension Officer teaching a beef cattle demonstration

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, The Jensen Living Historical Farm Photograph Collection, 1852–1992 P0356 7:22:11.)

Beef Cattle Project

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 07-003.)

Stockmen’s meeting

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 07-002.)

Shearing a sheep at the sheep shearing demonstration held at the Price auction yards, March 27, 1948

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 17-002.)

Poultry management

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 10-007.)

Dairy herd in need of improvement

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 01-001.)

Dairy stockyard in need of improvement

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 09-004.)

Bull Club, prize-winning bulls

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 11-001.)

Thoroughbred horseshow

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 16-001.)

Home Demonstration

Interior, people at work in a mattress-making center

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 010 Fd. 05-009.)

Cooperative cloth allotment [Click image to enlarge.]

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 08-010.)

Woman with a homemade quilt made from a cloth allotment [Click image to enlarge.]

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 08-011.)

“Through cooperation our rural and farm people shall rule the nation.”

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 04-016.)

Before photos showing the kitchen prior to the remodeling work done for a kitchen contest

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 01-007.)

After photos showing remodeling work done for the kitchen contest

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 003 Fd. 01-008.)

Extension work focused on both improving farming and land management as well as helping wives improve their homes [Click image to enlarge.]

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 06-001.)

Home management leaders gathered at Richmond for instruction and training

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 34-003.)

Alice Mather of Smithfield with her canned produce

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 002 Fd. 01-016.)

Clothing Demonstration Team

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 38-007.)

Mrs. Emily Rhodes of Garland and the device she made to be used in the making of dress forms

(Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives, P0138 Bx. 001 Fd. 08-003.)

All pictures shown above are found in the Utah State University County Extension Agent Report Photograph Collection SCAP0138.