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Show Good Seed Brings Big Grv & t & as J Experiments Prove Profit! Selection Must Be Carefully Done if Good Results Are to Be Produced. By LON J. HADDOCK. TO GROW from a precarious experiment ex-periment beguu in fear and trembling into a powerful educational educa-tional institution which today is sending its life jririuir stimulus into every channel of the stale, ami exert-iuK exert-iuK a potential influence in all phases of educational and industrial activity is uo moan achievement. V et such in brief is tho history of the Agricultural college of Utah. Founded in 1SSS and after much cautious deliberation, it saw its beginning upon (he crest of the bleak Logan delta ''where the foot hillu shown red iu the sun,J' and only a few scrub sago broke the monotony of the wide acres which had been sot apnrt for its use. Today it stand? like a monument set iu the midst of p veritable s'airy laud, surrounded by wide acres of rolling lawn and embowered embow-ered by rare trees and fragrant foliage. Its first faculty consisted of but nine members, mostly self-trained and with little special preparation to lit them for the peculiar lino of work which is characteristic of thc Agricultural Agricul-tural college of today; yot it must not be thought that thev were in any wise lacking iu tho higher qualifications qualifica-tions of temperament aud culture as tho work dono by the first faculty-is faculty-is vot manifesting itsolf iu the present spirit of the institution. Today its faculty numbors seventy-six and among them may be found some of the best known specialists in western America. One of State's Assets. Nor has its economic worth to tne stato been lessened in the years which have intervened since its beginning. What was at first entered upon as a risk has now become a most valuable asset; and from what was looked upon as a justifiable expense, has developed a most profitable investment. For physical telonces. a8 well LW, matica, history, lanKtiac (f1 This provides course, affording a broari tlon in earlier yearj "l8 special subjects i when th iSX matured in years. The l? chanio arts Is Intended 'ftjl dents as artisans. lind Uie tirSKi pf tho shops and 1 the i JSSSW f. emphasised In the tarn,i lents may specialleVwo, M ng, machine work, foumlrv V lng and carriage iuaklnf? ''M phasls being placed uiion Mi. worn, how to handle tools aSK the work neatly, cfilclentu-niBf ly. For the first th o In Av? tho college, this courSehM IK Hcd this year by n. degree. Tr In tho standard of tho woriTM necessary because of the -WJB, for more advanced training rW distinctive lines of meeffl f The school of agrlcultur S Is a new departure and ha V Jcctlvo tho training of SLSBL fanner along the lines which W him successful In the varionl1 of this treat bualness. forH indeed a business. The ttiatSi thc agricultural onglneer hacTK the questions of Irrigation naT farm mechanics, agricultural nubile roads, rural archltoctuiB tlon. public health and agilcultB nologj-. m Scope of Work. S The work of the school ic imB only to nt the man who bdB any single department, bnt aB lilm such general trainlnfr it tural engineorlner that he nuW to solve all of the mont tchaBl necilng problems of the comnuH' new course la one of tho moatB departures which tho collesa-M in recent years, and it is ctlV meet a decided uccd In tho woS cultural engineering. Tho schoS culture exercises ceneral cupersB-tho cupersB-tho various ramlflcatlons of tm embraclnc as It does agronoiiM. culture, eniomologj. soil chemhw cultural physics, geology. pljB farm surveying, etc .m The third, and by no meajuJm important division of ihe collS ex'tcnslon division. Tho slogaB division is. "Carry thc 3chool t pie." Thc institute workori constantly in the held, meatingfl-farmers meatingfl-farmers and asslstlnc thorn b3, supervision In solving tho prohjW aro press! us: upon them, arid ym out special ways of carrying otfl which they havo In hand. During tho present year thO'M division la holding farmers' afl keepers' schools at strateK throuchout thc entire eUt0 schools, extending from thraS days each, ore proving Immense lar and somo of tho best sptclaH tho college staff arc In attfl the name, givlnc: the benefit otH years of training to thc farfl housewives who attend the InsuS C. C Pterson has recontly M charge of this division of tbo.W ceedfng Prof. L A. Merrill, vll of activity In this line havo bra e:; tension service to its preterm standard. iW Subjects Discussed. 't In theso schools such subject eral farm improvement, hoi Utah boys on the farm, bettir" how to get It, dry farming that' wonders of plant breeding, si insects and how to eontrol tS cows and better cows, mom for Utah, finding and iiicctlne' market, price and breeds of daJ farm buildings, stock judshi?. breeds of horses, the construct roady in Utah, in short, all pha dustrial life In which the farm is concerned are freely oluclft al each meeting ample tlmo 1$ for tho asking and answering tions. In addition to the schools tl farmers' round-up and hoto conference, which was Inaugu the college several years ngoi' held this year not only at I tho great demand for an ext this popular Institution has de college authorities to hold a sec ers' round-up and housekecpen ence this year at Richfield. fi in addition to the depiirtmen work mentioned, tin; scope of tl la gradualiv enlarging and otb( features aro being introduced f to time. For instance, the eerj turcs on rural sanitation an subjects, which thc college has, ting on at 1-ogan thc present cl has become Immensely papula of tho best-known educators Inl havo given their sen'lcea at t tures and thc result has uei creased interest In manors par sanitation in the homes of tl of thc state. , Growing Year by Yeai Year by year the college I I both In its efficiency and Ir. t incut. The registration ihlu prj has exceeded any previous year the most recent departures na inauguration of -a completo t deuce course, which is designee thc needs of the men and throughout the stntc of u ton-I ton-I unable to attend the college I . This Is carrying the school to J ! In tho broadest sense of the ; the letters received from maw who havo taken advantage ot , 1 is the best evidence of tn'' tlon which this movement or u hus in tho public mind. Thc great need of thc colles ent Is that of more room. . lew the enrollment Is Increasing ana it has gone far beyond aU. years, with the result that tt offered bv tho college hao D tirclv inadequate to mEot IM-the IM-the Increase of students. lugs aro needed both for tho.; of the coming cttlzcnahlP 0 ;md also for the cxniiusuw work which tho college official bltihus to carrv on. z This fact, lipwover, V "W Agrlcullui-al collcgo l'nunnL0ij It has become a Pennanent ' he economic admlnistra on ofJ TJie profession of "S11" In tho last twenty years a pro" d0To properly till the soil tt i greatest Efficiency "".n standpoint of breeding and aKcmonl. to manlpu with the groatest Prjut. to a buslnoss commensurate ! etc. These aro things Mr best kind of Preparation. TM i the Agricultural college : is v these linos of buslncw opportunity with banking an anT.,Sy'thlS is hcing done Jg successfully SaM'-vot'1 can n community of tf",,v,"t the i tho trained agrtc Uurlst. w 1 us-f. brain as wflf.f y cultural college has an SSS5.rU aWjSSs sassa. 'ift. RUtca farther cast, ieTi tint positions undo the w bo depends upon tlj9 suP , people shall fe,? t V With the plans Wcj g p . contemplation, .V'rPC the exp knowledge sf.The P"t-tho P"t-tho past, and "iUi plaflf. faculty to carry jnit uiosj. t appear that there : Is no nor no sla,ndI r iJtah, tno cultural co l ego o B' ; the People." to attain. - |