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- LETTERS, Page 7No Pork Barrel
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- The reference to the Agricultural Extension Service as a
- "pork-barrel" project in your story on budget cuts (NATION,
- Oct. 30) is unfair. We address, among other subjects, teen and
- preteen alcohol and other substance abuse, water quality,
- community revitalization and nutrition. Last summer, in one
- county alone, we saved farmers approximately $4.5 million by
- helping them decide how to cope with a plague of spider mites
- and grasshoppers.
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- Patrick J. Borich, Dean and Director Minnesota Extension
- Service University of Minnesota St. Paul
-