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Show RAISINS IF SUGAR BEET SEED URGED President E. G. Peterson Describes Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural College Work. President E. G. Peterson of the Utah xVgricultural college at Logan, who was in Salt Lake yesterdajr, said Utah should make a success of sugar beet seed raisiug. President Peterson said that sugar beet seed is now being produced pro-duced successfully at the agricultural college aud that experiments show that the industry would prove highly profitable. prof-itable. The recent cold weather in Cache county found more than 200,000 tons of sugar beets still in the ground, President Presi-dent Peterson said, and to harvest this crop, which, he said, is valued at approximately ap-proximately $2,000,000, an appeal was made to the agricultural college students stu-dents to assist. More than 200 meu responded. re-sponded. The Agricultural college, according to President Peterson, has opened courses in bee- culture, tractor and auto repair work, animal husbandry, poultry and special classes in typewriting and accounting, ac-counting, to enable the service men sent to the school by the federal board of vocational education to become proficient pro-ficient in their chosen lines of work. Forty of these men are already at the school, he said, and 500 more" are expected. ex-pected. Other experiments being made are in the increase of egg laying and the fattening fat-tening of cattle, he stated. Tho first-named first-named course has produced results. President Petersou said. It has also been demonstrated, he said, that Utah cattlemen do not have to ship their livestock east to the corn belt for fat tening, as the ingredients can be mixed at home with Utah products, which produce pro-duce the same results and save the cost of shipping. Preparations, he said, are already being be-ing made for the state round-up, which occurs at the Agricultural college the last week of January and tho first week in February. This vear the attendance atten-dance will include hundreds of farmers, cattlemen, county, superintendents of schools, crop pest commissioners, county agents, canal managers, dairymen and horticulturists. |