Show ABOUT FARU1XB Tho SnlJoct of Scientific Ifricnl total AJrancfiuciit ODSSISOK Jan 3Ist 1693 Corn Cor-n = x > nJeiico of tlio DISKUCT JfirvvsJ Within the last half con turygovcrumcnU liaro commenced In good earnest to foster scientific agricultural advancement but the reasons n 10 many to enumerate in a short article I Tho question may bo nOtctl Is farniln rejirescnted In tho United States Congress by more than tlC IT cent of that body In Germany Scandinavia France anti KuglanJ it 1 represented by from forty to seventy per cent of their lawgiving departments In boo United States I required more than a century t discover that tho chief of our agricultural agri-cultural department ought to bo elevated to the dignity of a Cabinet oQIcer and today in our midst farming people nro considered by mock representatives to be I fpecles of cowbovs or cavedw ellers bob bitS among other thingsan enormous misdealing in the exchange of labor or value For instance farmers earnings vary fromono to two dollar dol-lar i ov ilocM tills compare alIbi thow required in ono way or another an-other by politician mcrvliants otT lawytrs caqietbaggers liinlpra coon niilllormlria Arm om1er Ind mllonlr Ar thi e the gifted representatives of our farmers national intemU Can people thrive under such abnormal condition If the farmers had been able to represent their own interests iu tho Lost century I would have icon othcrwUe Hut not we hope i for better thing and there eecms t Lea tendency manifest t better the condition of affairs in this connection The principal the Agricultural I Er f College nt Logan Professor San otto the other day delivered an able nnd promising addrefa before our Legislative Afcsemblv In which he prominently aptly set forth that farmers deal sclentillcally with tho production of the soIl0 In order according to the laws of nature to draw out without stint the rich treasures which evolve from It Let Ctali formers tko to heart the cmlncntly true and timely sentiments senti-ments I ot the profesKir and make advancement in guod t farming I to the honor and bemllt of all concerned cre James I heave of Kranklln Ohio in his report to the Agricultural Agricul-tural Department in lOSS page W4 said Iliat each cultivated aero will bo l maJe to yield the greatest possible 1 mouty product is tIle natural eud loaned which we are now tending This b the case In Utah 11thcou Jfow to analyze this most important impor-tant question I Our farming id limited In aero age being dipendcnt on She water Mipply for irrigation 2 Jut jxrhaps relatively unlimited unlim-ited in productiveness > through improvement 3 Ilencu the value of laud and irrigation depend on the qmillty or intensity of fanuimr 4 And as a sequence the concentration concen-tration productiveness I a maxim Inlnom and iu economy Intensity fanning fann-ing Improvement h au object of wellbeing When I takes about the mmc quantity of labor laud and water to produce flfleiti bushels of grain on one arIa a to producctixty bushel 0 hat h lie dlinrencc In the value of land irrigation and labor When the ability of tho farmer to produce fifteen bushel of grain to Jruc I wuith n livinc how much letter is it to produce sixty bushel per aero Therefore comes the very important Ilmprmt question for the Utah Agricultural Colkgo and experimental stations To whatdegne of fniltfulnefa h It profitable lo improve the i for farming in Utah r A 31 I |