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Show FARMING EXPERTS HOLD CONFERENCES Gatherings Are Being Held in This City and Interest Is Great. Agricultural experts from all parts of the state are In the city for a conference with the experts of the Utah Agricultural college. These conferences hekttn Saturday Sat-urday and will continue until thlB even- - MIC. Among those at the Hotel Utah yesterday yester-day was John . WidtHoe. president of the Utah Agricultural college. Dr. Wldt-soe Wldt-soe will not t.e here for today s sessions, however, having left for Denver to attend at-tend 'the dry-farm congress and land nhow in that rlty. The conferences are for the purpose of havinr the county farm demonstrators o.chanc;o Ideas and talk over Hgnci-itur.il conditions with Che men at tli Agricultural Agricul-tural college. The meetings are In charge of Dr. E G. .. Peterson, head of the extension work of the -Agricultural college, an 1 are reins; he'd at the state fairgrounds. Dr. (i. R. 1 UN. plant pathologist, Dr. R. J. Evans and Professor John T. Calne III are here Tom the college also. Mr. Calne Is as-s as-s sling farmers In selecting pure-bred slock at the fair. The county demonstrators In attendance , Include Lorln A. .Nferrlll, J. p. Welsh G Clrr,y' r,reston Thomas, A. B. Ballantyne, M. I Harris and If. J. Webb, and the n 2" "Pfsted are the Uinta basin, . Millard. Sevier, Carbon, Emery, Iron, Weber We-ber and Salt Lake. Discussing the work of the farm demonstrators. dem-onstrators. Dr. Peterson said yesterday: The work this winter will deal largely with the problems of disease eradication among potatoes and animals ani-mals and with Irrigation and drainage reforms. Many of the agents report remarkable remark-able progress in I he agriculture of their countries. The potatoes of Sevier Se-vier county, because of the work done by W. H. Olln. agricultural commissioner commis-sioner of the Denver & Rio Gnfnde, snd I.orin A. Merrill, county demonstrator, demon-strator, are considered bv Dr. G R Hill, plant pathologist, among the best in the west. These men through the I courtesy of the Denver & Rio Grande Imported a carload of seed and scientifically scien-tifically treated and cultivated the potatoes, po-tatoes, with the result that Sevier county will be a considerable distributing distrib-uting point for potatoes this winter The demonstrators report that they are assisting In the Importation of pure-bred slock. Sevier county recently recent-ly bought, through County Demonstrator Demon-strator Merrill, two carloads. Sires pf a higher quality than last vear are heading die herds. Ben R. Eldredge. extension specialist special-ist In dairying, reports that Iron county coun-ty has the creamery with the best temperature in the state for producing fine cheese. ' Millard county farmers report that the recent agitation by Demonstrator Welsh In favor of winter wheat over spring wheat has added main- thousands thou-sands of dollars to the income" of the county. The demonstrators .are being supported sup-ported by the citizens verv loyally and it Is to this support that their success suc-cess In a large measure is due. |