Show PROFESSORS NOW IN DIXIE Hold Successful Series of Meetings Before the Various Farmers Institutes St George March evening saw the lose 1056 of a very successful fa ent in Institute i which has been In seSsion here the two days just passed Under the auspices or of he local farmers organIzation President W T S and nd Professors Northrop and McLaughlin of the AgrIcultural college Logan discussed discuss d numerous sUbjects such as organization horticulture irrigation and nd drainage President Judd of the state board of hor horticulture horticulture was present and aroused con fd rable enthusiasm wi h his talk upon boosting He said it was only by thIs means that Dixie fruit could reach the market successfully President Kerr urged the necessity or of and cIted Ulu of the profits being beinS oh ob obtaIn taIn t this agency Professor McLaughlin showed how to drain soggy land of whIch there re is a Quantity In the vicinity He said to have havethe havethe the ditch go across the slope not with I IL if best results were desired Northrop discussed a numb r of horticultural problems one of which WAS the handling of grape mildew lIe He explained how to spray with bordeaux mixture and also ao how to make it prop properly properly erly The meetings w were re w wall Il attended and considerable enthusiasm vas v as manifested over what all called the success of the thein in Institute On the ev evening of the Pro Professor W WJ V VT T J Kerr delivered a lecture in the taber tabernacle tabernacle nacle under the auspIces ot of the Wood Woodward Woodward ward school to a large audience The manner in which the audience ex expressed expressed pressed of the tho poInts brought cut by the sp speaker aker beyond k doubt the progressive which char characterIzes characterizes the people ot of the city for the subject t treated was one which during the thelast last few years has been brought forth by bythe bythe the most wide a awake vake communIties Th The speaker mentioned the two de of education which the present day requires and showed their development importance in a very emphatic man ncr The Th first or of these demands men mentioned mentioned was that our system of be such that It prepare prepare men who ho can an do things He the development of education from the time when it was only provided d for the until th the ro cent ent past wh when n the demand from the In Industries industries of our nation required that men able to look after r our nines railroads and mills would b be prepared in our col colleges legos leges This he showed to be the first step sten towards putting the education for II which the masses of our pay in such a L form that it would be of service to them he continued It has failed noticeably in that only about sixty students out of every can avail themselves of it since that Is the ratio of the number in inel el elementary schools who ever succeed in attaIning a a college education and the col colle colleges le leges es ar at pr present S nt about the onlY places where such education can be had After a very logical discussion of this matter th the president turned the atten attention Wm tion of the audience to methods b bY which this fault could be corrected H He showed to them the fact that at present nearly an all anthe the text books in use contained a mass of us useless less material which should be eliminated and tl th g r rOom om In the curri curricula cula of our common schools would be made for the introduction of courses in agriculture mechanic arts and domestic arts This would give the son of a far farmer farmer mer the opportunity of having some work which would prepare him for the duties of life and al also o prepare the girls in the common schools for a better understand understandIng Ing of health sanitation and the duties or of motherhood and home buil building The second demand of the day in edu education education cation is that men be tau taught ht to recognize the necessity for the building of charac character ter and perfect Integrity He caned called at attention to the exposures of graft in high positions which have hae b been made the past year ear and owed that only by the strict est eat honesty and purity or of life could real success be reached The demand of the thedR dR day ho he said is for men who not nat only will not steal but who will wUl not lie fe though tempted under the great greatest st pressure wilt wilf not yield to dishonesty of any kind There is always room for such men During the evening some excellent mu music sic was furnished by bj local talent and aU all present left feeling very well repaid for ha having attended |