Show STUDENT LIFE (Continued from Page one) The following address was de- tain a dairy cow for a pasture livered before Ihe National Irri- season it is necessary to have of gation Congress by the first grad- from two to three acres Their hay costs them uate in Agriculture of the U A ground 0 Professor Lewis A Merrill from $1S0U to $2500 per ton and of the class of 1895: their grain costs from $2500 to the price The editor of one of the larg- $3000 per ton yet to 13 9 Dec Lelii General Spanish Fork General Dec Garland General Dec 10 to 20 0 Brigham City Fruit Dec 3 Huntsville Gen’l Dec Pleasant View General the fat for butter in ivl Wgnj Dec 30 to Jan 3 the on not average Grantsville General Jan G to 10 district does equal the price received for but- Sandy General Jan 13 to 18 ter fat throughout the irrigated Ivaysville General Jan 13 to 18 sections of the west! Ogden (Farmers’ Convention It is a known and demonstratweek Horticulturists Dry ed fact that good irrigated pasFarmers Dairymen) ture land will maintain from two 9-1- 3 10-2- 30-Ja- re-c- e est agricultural papers in America was recently asked the question as to how high priced land could become to make it too valuable to be used for pasture grasses He replied in effect that land never does become too valuable for forage crops land never becomes so high priced that it cannot profitably be used for pasture The argument was made that unless some form of livestock husbandry be associated with every phase of agriculture it could not be made permanent The history of agriculture in the various countries of the world is replete with illustrations of this fact ' Denmark stauds out as a not-able example in this matter Not many years ago the agriculture of that nation was at a very low ebb their efforts were confined 1 largely to wheat growing their soils were becoming depicted of their fertility and the outlook was indeed discouraging The became government authorities concerned and after consideration established dairy schools throughout the country and offered special inducements to farmers to engage in the dairv busi- ness as a result the yields of farm crops have been trebled in instances many Denmark’s farming lands have greatly increased in value and are becoming more fertile year by year Among all the nations of the world today Denmark is the peer of any as far as agriculture is concerned The history of the little island of Jersey is instructive along this line Ibis island is only eleven miles long and four miles wide et they maintain a rural population of 00000 This is people made possible simply because of tin fact that dairying occupies the attention of the people of that island In this country the fame of the Elgin district has gone abroad in the land Elgin Jan 20 to to three cows through an entire season alfalfa Iiav one of the most palatable of forage crops can be raised at a profit and sold for $800 to $1200 per ton Grain in the irrigated section is usual- ly available at from $2000 to $2503 per ton’ With this com- parison in mind it seems to me that dairying should be a partic- ul ally profitable business 'and that it is so has already been Fmncrs 25 p 011 Housekeepers’ Confer I I Houml-u- RichfieUl (Farmers’ Round-u- p antl Housekeepers Confer- heb 13 to 22 once) Erovo General Feb 24 to Mch 2 Ephraim General Feb Kamas General March 4 to 8 Morgan General March 11 to 15 Castle Dale General Mch 24-Mch- 2 18-2- 2 demonstrated in many sections ± SCHOOL It is universally conceded that —Professor J C Ilogenson This the success and permanency of js a comparative! v new depart °Sriclhrc !f rc?s- met having for 'its object the n!'lSvTC1" inand upon crease of the elements in the soil lnHoduction of competitions in that are concerned in the feeding agricultural production and in of plants The elements with home work into the schools ant which the farmer is most concern high schools of the State The cl arc nitrogen phosphorus and onI work s0 far aempte(1 s lh potassium organization of the Hoys’ Potato In a ton of alfalfa hay 1 the signal success o nitrogen potash and phosphoric Clubs acid are worth $712 if the alfal- - this venture as demonstrated by fa is cut when the plants are in the Cache County Fair for in- fuH bloom These elements sold Unco speaks well for the work on the market at prevailing T °ther localities next year there prices would amount to that figure with nitrogen at 15 to 18 Uvl11 lje competitive clubs in to- eents a pound potash fifteen poultry corn etc cents a pound and phosphoric The girls will organize clubs in acid six cents floriculture vegetable gardening Using the apple crop as an i w 011 lustration we lind that six bund- - "!" 'T- red bushels of apples a fair yield I 'Vlllt olller branches of cooking from an acre contain 47 pounds domestic arts papers on house of nitrogen $705 five pounds of hold subjects For the rural com- 011 S '"unities no mm!!1 ’T more significant ? potassium $342 and mvemt 1as initiated these at the current market price v llu‘ lal‘ of these elements would make the Brieultural College price of the fertilizers $1107 3 HOME IMPROVEMENT o we ought to add to the cost FOR WOMEN— Miss Gertrude ot producing a crop of apples the Ur "S n0t ll0s cost or the fertility found in the V"7"': r is object the introduction of crop of apples Now take fifty bushels of of Home Economics in wheat 110 s to the acre We find in the’ fifty Mo Jill clubs and organizations us ids (f ''1lal: "1 pounds of whether social literary sectar-nitroge$1005 r pounds of " sort ot os' phosphorus 114: Id' omuls of "": !" °!'f " "Inch potassium 78 cents and these adopt such 1111 elements at the market sludy will be carried price hvork would make these fifty bushels of 01 hy means of outlines and deni-- " eat cost you in plant food that onstrations provided bv the l)e- in J mato-growin- g I il-- flnK 1 l's"'mg ‘1 f' 1 s)aln prices are quoted everywhere throughout this eouu-tand the Elgin district is pointed out as the ideal dairy see- 10°r Ihe United States Those count Hie value of the n‘ 11 11111 they embrace straw of you who have been in that see- - $033 in an average crop and v’rv 1‘liaS(‘ of 1on‘ lifr in which 10i kow woman is eoneerned: interior and order to main (Continued o page five) exterior decoration floriculture O' i 1 1 1 r 'rhr growing poultry both dairying farm literature technical and general besides the older branches domestic science and domestic art Miss McCheyne will have charge of the Housekeepers’ Conference and hopes then to organize a large amount of this work as well as to introduce books on these subjects “Book Tables” will be maintained for the institution of the members of the Congerenee BU4 THE PUBLICITY The REAU—Lon J Haddock aim of this Department is to keep the public informed through the press of the doings and achievements of the Utah Agricultural The citizens of Utah College support the College by their taxes and t hey are entitled to knowT what the Institution and its employees are doing for the advancement of agriculture and other phases of industrial development It will be the aim of Mr Haddock to present to the public in a dignified modest yet incisive manner all such items of news This information will be supplied to the magazines and newspapers of the State or 'published in special pamphlets and bulletins vegetable REORGANIZATION STOCK RAISING IN IRRIGATED REGIONS - THE CORRESPONDENCE DEPARTMENT— Professor Geo B Hendricks This relict of Prof II C Dale will be taken care of who stands by the new’ bead ready' to register every' qualified person anywhere on earth for courses bv correspondence in any subject whatsoever which can be taught in this way If you have a friend or friends who are ambitious but who cannot leave home to attend school refer the ease to Prof with Hendricks power to act 0 FARM DEMONSTRATIONS — l)r Robert J Evans This Department is in charge of the Demonstration farms College scattered throughout the State Later excursion trains will be run to the various farms 7 FAIRS AND EXHIBITS— Luther M’insor As the name says the object here is to cooperate with County' Fairs and carry' on A C Extension work v means of exhibits 5 T A Greenhalgh Th jilaco to huy your kIioch and furnlMtiliiK huHm ovTcnnt and Troumru Made to ordrr on short nnilco nr X Main |