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Show I AGRICULTURE IN THE LAST I LEGISLATURE. H The work of the Legislature which H adjourned hist week is notable for H the fair and extorsive support given H to the cause of agriculture in all its H branches. The support thus given to H the masses of the people of the state H is entirely due to tho sympathetic at- H titudc of the members composing the H Legislative body. H It gives the "Fanner" great pi ens- H uro to mention the excellent work 9 done in behalf of the Agricultural H College by Senator llullen, ropresent- H ing the district in which the College H in located. While the Senate ns it H whole was extremely frieujdly to the B College and Industrial education geu- B erally, yet the bunden of presenting B the claims of tho musses of the poo pie in their desire for an education, B fell upon Senator Bullen. The Senn- tor accepted the responsibility and B. worked in painstaking lrmnner u the very cud of the session for the Bt Agrlculturnl College and its branches l throughout the state. As a result the stale Senate appropriated for the purpose pur-pose of Agricultural aducation the largest sum ever appropriated in this state for such purposes. It is noteworthy as a sign of the progress made in educational circles in this state, that the Salt Lake senators sena-tors stood as a unit not only for tlic development of our great State University, Uni-versity, but also for the Agricultural College. No single incident in tlic history of the recent Legislature better bet-ter illustrates the change in the sentiment, sen-timent, during the. past two years, of the two great Institutions, each on friendly terms working unitedly for the upbuilding of the state, each one recognizing its special field. The people and the peoples' representatives representa-tives appear to understand this condition con-dition and appreciate it. In the House of Representatives, the same friendliness was shown towards to-wards agricultural and industrial work in general. As in the Senate the main burden of presenting the claims of the Agricultural Colleg-e fell upon the Cache delegation. Speaker Robinson, who for many years served as Professor Profes-sor in the Agricultural College, was in a position to give full information regarding the work and needs of the College. He was ably seconded by other Cache representatives. This statement of effective work done in the House, would he incom-. incom-. pletc without mentioning the continuous con-tinuous and persistent work done in behalf of the Agricultural College and all measures .having in view the material development "qf the State, by Representative W. ' S. Hansen of Box- Elder county. Likewise practically every member of tliQ House of Representatives on the door and in Committee rooms, showed their hearty sympathy with the kind of work done under the direction di-rection of Utah's College of practical education. As in the Senate, $0 in the Fuic.Jt was notable that the whole delegation, almost to a man, united in supporting the Agricultural College. We are led to believe from the attitude of the last Legislature that the friendship towards Utah's two great educational Institutions is real and will be permanent. It will be much for the progress'of this state if it can be maintained. The House concurred with the Senate in apprpp-riatiug apprpp-riatiug to the College, the largest sum up to date for the prosecution of its work. We fconghitulajtc the Legislature upon the work that it has accomplished. accomp-lished. It has many serious problems prob-lems to solve. Not least among its acts in their effort upon the development develop-ment of the state are the libcal provisions pro-visions made for the development and Strengthening of the work of agriculture agri-culture and domestic science and kind-rrftl kind-rrftl pursuits. |