Show 56 STUDENT LIFE The fruit and vegetables from the college orchard and garden have nearly all been harvested and stored away for the keeping test of the different varieties On Oct 27 the class in horticulture had its first practice lesson in Pomology E C McCarty one of our most active students is going to leave us having accepted a very lucrative position as foreman in one of the departments of the Faust Creamery Co of Salt Lake City We will greatly miss our genial friend The class in Agronomy had an excursion on Oct 29 to the Greenville farm where the college has twelve acres devoted to irrigation The trip was a investigations very instructive one and would have lecn highly enjoyed by all had not Jack Frost gone along too Prof Pall is now tabulating the results of this year’s experiments on spraying to kill the codling moth preparatory to issuing a bulletin on “Spraying” Xo definite information is available vet but the results so far as known are even better than with the apples exhibited at the State Fair mention of which was made in last issue One tree sprayed had as low as 7 per cent of wormy apples The class in Agronomy 4 is doing excellent work in Agricultural A study is made Experimentation of the extracts of various bulletins and the resulting conclusions are This is tabulated by the student the first class of the kind in the history of the college Prof Hutt has received six barrels and seven large boxes of glassware in which the efficacy of chemical solutions for preserving fruit is to be tested If the experiment is a success the fruit thus preserved will be exhibited at the World’s Fair in St Louis in 1904 The chemicals will be furnished bv the client- ical department As an additional recognition of the value of the Irrigation Experiments of the Utah Station under the direction of Dr Widtsoe he has been asked to give a paper on the “Results of the Irrigation Investigations in Utah” before the “American Association of Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations” at Washington The Doctor departed for the East Nov 17th The Agricultural club is now organized for the year and is in full running order The took place on Nov 4 when the following officers were elected: J E Taylor President: Mr Doremus W R Smith Sec: John Stephens Treasurer retary M C Merrill Sergeant-at-arm- s There is some excellent timber among the new members this year one especially notable feature being musical talcrt 'The club will have “all kinds of proper stuff” served up to it this winter the outlook being so exceptionally bright Vice-Preside- nt: |