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Show Experiment Farm Sites The committee from the Agri- j cultural college of Utah, charged j with the selection of sites for the j live dry land experiment farms in Utah provided by an act of the last Legislature has definitely settled upon two tracts of land chosen from the many that were? offered. . 1 Oieof the farms will be in Juab county and one m iron county. The selection in Juab county consists of a tract of forty ecres lying three and one hall miles south of Nephi, between thT,fivan and Juab roads, and about eighty rods from the track of the Oregon Short Line rail-! wav The surface, now covered with sage brush, is a gentle slope and the soil is a heavy clay , ' with no variation for several feet down. This district soil formation forma-tion is regarded by the committee as a feature which will rencer the results of experiments on that land a safe guide for farmers farm-ers throughout the State where precisely similar soil. abounds. , |