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Show EDUCATE THE FARMER. Tho hundreds of soung men In Utah who confine their education o the country schools supplements by a short coins an academy should pnuse unci consl ler whut constitutes nn educitlon This Is ropldls becoming becom-ing nn age of specialists and the soung man who spend two or three sears in an aimless couisc getting n smattering smatter-ing of Lutln nnd German and French, with a desultory w indering through the mazes of ancient history, might bettei have remained on the farm from the das he left the common schools. Investing the money ho wasted on an 'iduculon In starting a herd of dairy caws 01 In planting out an orchard We say he would better remain on tho farm foi thero nre score ot such 'educated 'edu-cated ' boss today who feel they are too seholarls lo farm nnd they mur therefore seek a position ' measuring tape or selling hnlrplns In a dr) goods store No greutei mistake could no", slbls le mnde foi when the )c man deserts the fuini In Ltih ft, u job of clerking In a store or office, I10 exihsnges Independence for tho life of n, menlil he gives up the noblest occupation oc-cupation of man fur trivial thlngR that go with tho high inllur the pompadour pompa-dour tho evening stroll atul the simpering sim-pering siimmti girl at the resorts 'lo tho south of Utah thero is every com civ able Inducement to study the science of ngrlcultmc, With a limited mea of arable soil and a constant In-crcite In-crcite In the non-producing or urban population In Utah, there I a (rowing demand for farmers who sre able to so handle the few aores as td bring forth the utmost production The scattered few who are causing the soil to give up its fertlllts, simply point the wa) to the higher plane that the Utah farmer farm-er must occups In the future In order to reach that plane the farmer must educate himself, and the south of to. day who will be the farmer of the next decade should pursue those studies that will fit him for the advanced con-dldons con-dldons Fortunately the facilities for such education are within the reich of every boy In Utah, for the Agricultural college col-lege stands with open dooia to evers boy and girl who would rle to the noble heights that abound In the broad field of agriculture |