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Show Profits In Correct Farming Perhaps the most praiseworthy movement fostered among the young men of Spring-ville Spring-ville is the promotion of the boys' farm and garden club work. And at the outset let it be said that no city in Utah has made finer progress than has Springville in this movement. It is one of the fundamental projects in the development of the youth of the rural districts and small cities, and should receive the hearty support of every citizen of this locality. The trend of recent years has been to make the farm attractive to the boys and girls so that they may more fully realize the unbounded opportunities the farmer and the stockraiser has over those who throng the larger centers. The problem then, is to offer the young man, and the young woman, too, for that matter, opportunities whereby they may see the possibilities of gaining an education and a livelihood on the farm. That this is possible has been demonstrated by the boys' clubs formed in our local high school. These clubs, under the able direction of G. L. Barron, agricultural instructor, instruct-or, have shown that it is profitable to raise hogs, chickens, and purebred cows. Thev also have proved beyond doubt that intensive farming is especially profitable. They have 1 demonstrated that not a single failure has confronted the efforts of those who enter into any of these pursuits, if they'will use some degree of science and system in their efforts. And that is the primary object back of the school to show that these farm problems prob-lems must be pursued with some degree of correct business principles. Too few of our farmers have yet learned this lesson. This recently was demonstrated demonstrat-ed by a survey of 161 farms in the immediate vicinity of Springville. On most of these farms there was an average of less than two milk cows, less than two hogs, less than fifty chickens, whereas that average should have been increased four or five times. These methods were pointed out to our boys who were shown the disadvantages under which most of our farmers are laboring. - Boys, there is money in farming and kindred pursuits, if undertaken from the right angle. There is no need of becoming discouraged and get the impression that the city chap has all of the adantages. His path, is not strewn with roses. On the contrary his life is too often made burdensome and extremely monotonous. Learn to farm and farm right. ' Raise good stuff and your profits will come as surely as the night follows day. |