Show The Utah Independent anything that will improve of the American agriculturists comprise sixty j cent of our most good to the greatest should be the aim of Era thing that to the ml and comfort of the nation or individual is the product of the la and The farm is the f the farmer the original pi ducer of what we He is the greatest Nearly all other occupations' absorbers and And farmers as a whole who supply our daily bread are looked ij and classed by many as and And there has been mi reason for A few years strength and of the farmer who his strength and not upon his ba to produce was the gj farming and there area lions of hit or ids farmers There is a g reason for the slip-shod farmer is his early education he was taught or equipped to till the sj Like the public schools of tW years ago ninety-nine per cent them today entirely ignore er education of the farm boy girl- 1 Public Schools Thirty Years The editor of the taught school in Poj during the winter of and the enormous sum thirty dollars per the janitor work and boj j It was a country of sixty farmer boys and H ranging from six to twenty set of and all the common branches from A B C to gebra and Geometry were of Lehman had a population t five A Methodist church ornamented i Baptist d a f Either one of these the arches with its cost over five times as mUCh as the school The two each a salary of I preachers 1 six hundred dollars per with barn and garden In other the people f of Lehman paid a seventeen year old boy one hundred and twenty dollars to prepare the young people I how to live and how to keep out of the and twelve hundred dollars per year to two preachers to prepare them to die and keep out of a mythical There was the Lehman school I not one pupil in over fifteen years of age who could I not bound every country on the give its principal and and could and explain in minute detail every problem in Stoddard's intellectual The last ten pages of Stoddard was devoted to catchy For instance one was head of a fish is four inches the tail is as long as the head and half the and the body is as long as the head and tail how long is the a third of six is what will a fourth of twenty Every one of those Lehman farmer students were top-heavy on geography and and probably not one of them in the active pursuits of home life knew enough to properly set a pick a or make a pound of They could all split bound and solve problems but they were never taught to unite the the and the in the active duties of The Public School of The public schools of today are but little better for the farmer stu-t dents than they were thirty or forty years Our country in all of our students today are taught longitude and bank quadratic permutations and arithmetical and geometrical shall not ring and shall be Queen oi the but not one of them can name the different forest or tell what crops the soil is fitted for or the flow of ar irrigation I am glad to note that we have an Agricultural Col lege in one of the finest and best equipped in the United We are glad to print the winter course of that The first thing on the program is Dairying almost a lost art since creameries have become so I notice by the market report that creamery butter is thirty-five dairy butter twenty-five cents per If the farmer boys and girls were properly the above quotation would be Almost every home-made article is better and brings a better price than the factory Home-made and pies such as used to are worth double the me from the No creamery that uses all kinds of milk from poorly well and different breeds of can make as good butter as the properly selected breeds of the There are many educated women who know how make butter and who get more for their butter than the creamery With the hand separators and the easy way of making butter now in the creamery is a detriment to the The creamery sets the price on the milk it and also on the butter it The farmer has nothing to say in the The creamery gets all the When the farmer knows enough to make good he is his own He sets the price on his milk and on the butter he Every farmer boy and girl should take some course offered by the Utah Agricultural The next on the list is I would much rather that a child of mine would be able to and give the names of the different forest and fruit trees than to solve a cubic read two hundred lines of or name the different gods in Grecian Our Utah schools are the best in the United when tak- en as a and every Utah boy t and girl should graduate from i And the boy and girl who intend to t spend their days in agriculture should take a thorough course in College if i the Agricultural they have to eliminate the high school to do |