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Show THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. The Rocky Mountain Farmer has an article which has a direct bearing on the Agricultural college col-lege and the proposition to merge that school with the University. A few points are herewith condensed, con-densed, as follows : Since the college was established and its policy outlined, the products of the soil of Ltah have increased in-creased from $12,000,000 in value to $30,000,000. and farm comforts have increased correspondingly. The influence of the great school has been a most important factor in this development. When it has reached a point which enables it to render most efficient service to the agricultural interests of the State, the word has gone out that the State which in its poverty built up and equipped the great school, cannot afford the money for its maintenance. The courses of study laid out at the commencement commence-ment have been maintained, save such as have been taken away from the school by legislation. The Constitutional convention fixed tlfe site, as was supposed, sup-posed, permanently at Logan, and relying upon that, many homes have been established there which otherwise would not have been, and beautiful buildings build-ings for the school have been erected. The I'niversity has entailed much more expense upon the State than the college, and in the I'niversity I'ni-versity several courses of study have been instituted to duplicate much of the work of the college With a farm population of !I8.:i in I'tah. the Agricultural college of 10O." had llo agricultural students, or one to every v.o of the farm population, as given by the experimental station of the I'nited States IVpartment of Agriculture. The same authority gives the agerage for all the States as one student for every o0o of the farm populat ion. The majority report of the commission appointed ap-pointed by linv. Cutb-r found the relative population popula-tion in six States as follows: 1 'tab. 1 student to each oh population California. 1 student to each .!14 population Idaho. 1 student to each lv'd- population Illinois. 1 student to cacti -l.lt.o population, Missouri. 1 student to each ...017 population I Ohio. 1 student to each 4.187 population 1 This shows that tin re is vastly more interest 111 j the Agricultural college of I'tah than in most of the great agricultural States. i Consolidation is recommended on economical grounds. The same report that gives the above j figures show that the Logatl college costs for each j student $1 '") per annum. Indiana. Nebraska. Ohio.' Idaho ami Wyoming have consolidated schools, and ' the cost of each student is m them, respectively.! $J14. 1'04. $'.( 1. ':', and 147. ( ne would think that a Legislature, many mem-j hers of which hail from agricultural counties, would hesitate bmg before laying its hand upon a school which has such a showing, and by the act strike down a leading science and make if a mere indistinguishable in-distinguishable adjunct to another institution, which in the very nature of things would "dwarf agriculture, horticulture and their adjuncts. Moreov r. there is neither water, land, binld-: ings. nor the money to purchase them, for it must not be forgotten that if the Logan college is alum- j doned the property that has been built up there will revert to the city of Logan. |