Show What Our Agricultural College is What Makes a Successful The question is asked by hundreds of people each particularly during the- when the city folk hie them to the country and see with surprise the the the wealth of the modern Profession of They observe that something more than land is Smith may have just as many acres of equally fertile land as his neighbor across the yet Jones is a success and Smith is a And poor Smith works just as or even What is the a Simply that the successful man has learned somehow that agriculture is a honorable and a learned The unsuccessful farmer stubbornly refuses to learn this lesson and persists in looking upon farming as from early morning till late at His children despair at the prospect of such unremitting and leave the They become factory-girls anything to escape the life that with a proper use of intellect can be made the most interesting and fascinating on And so the old folks are left to solve the unsolvable problem of hired help in their declining with as much work as ever to do and far less strength to do A Learned Why not follow the successful man's example and learn before is too that can make not merely but The successful farmer knows more than his neighbor over the whether he learns from from or from his own Today it is no longer necessary to waste time and means in learning from your own You can learn from the accumulated experience of The Agricultural Colleges throughout the land act as clearing houses to collect and disperse such experiences and other profitable facts about Send the boy to an and in nine cases out of ten after finishing a course he will realize the dignity and interest of Country Life and will be glad to go to the t New He will come back to you his head full of thoughts and plans which he is eager to carry out and which may startle you as being The may urge the setting out of a new orchard of two or three instead of the two dozen gnarled and twisted veterans representing two dozen He may set out j a new strawberry bed to replace the one you have had for ten You been in he habit of flooding your pastures and grass lands for weeks at a until there are swampy spots here and he may believe in the conservation water and tell you that your crops will be better by using only one-fourth as much He may insist on getting a patent and other labor-saving and time-saving He may even plead for pure-bred in place of the old and suggest the selling of those ancient mongrel hens to make room for a flock of Leghorns or Rhode Island He will do all this and more if he is of the right K Don't be alarmed or Your common sense will tell you he is and his youthful energy and enthusiasm will make easy the changes you would not dare to undertake Above the he displays in farm improvements and farm problems will e make you feel amply repaid for all Utah Agricultural you what has all that to do with the Agricultural Simply The has amply proved its ability to help you by educating your sons if you can spare the to standards of agriculture and farm In this Age of no sensible person believes that what was good enough for our fathers is good enough for The through its its hundreds of its Extension leads in every kind of rural The School of In the development of the agricultural resources of Utah and jacent this department of the U. A. C. has been of prime importance in the and will become an ever-increasing influence in the It a two-fold The training of scientific agricultural as teachers of agriculture in high schools and and as the various bureaus of the Government the preparation of young men for a successful life on the engaged in actual So nearly all of the degree graduates in agriculture have at once been drafted Into Uncle Sam's or have become instructors or professors to teach subject to Their salaries are Only one them accepted the position of Professor of Agronomy in a prominent agricultural college of the Middle His salary a It is only half a dozen years since he was A few others have done equally and many have approximated this The U. A. C. has graduates in the Re- the Indian the Forest the Bureau of the Bureau of Plant the Bureau of Entomology and the Bureau of F rs Very of the six-year men have been permitted to go farm they have been needed to teach others and to do 0 tte and experimental But thousands of boys and gone back to actual farming after spending three haV four or five years at the The extent to which mes been stimulated and improved by this process cannot be has Degree The School of Agriculture offers degrees in six courses- Aw Irrigation and Agricultural Chemistry a Husbandry and and Each of these lin 1 work Is very much needed in the each presents 01 openings to the young man of ability and ess Agronomy and Dry The work here is concentrated on farm farm management seed The growing of sugar beets wh oats and hay constitutes one of the leading varieties of Dry farming is reclaiming a large part of Utah and maS it the man who knows how to get the greatest returns in tons of hay or beets or in bushels of grain from a acreage is the man who is going to leaves nothing that h can control to He enjoys his and it repays him Irrigation and So large a percentage of our agriculture is dependent on irrigation that the amount of moisture required by various the time and method of must needs be understood by him who would be a model And excessive past and compels him to learn how to drain his low-lying There will soon be a large demand for men to manage the great irrigation systems and to divide the water justly according to crop In order to take rational care of the thousands of acres in recent years devoted to orchards in it is necessary to train a large number of The horticultural feature Utah is great beyond But many failures will be prevented by learning how to pick and market the And the proper varieties must be selected to begin and planted in the right kind of All this the students learn in the course in The demand for experts in this line of work far exceeds the Millions of dollars are lost to the American farmer every year through the ravages of injurious Only the trained specialist can cope with these pests with any degree of The the many experiment are clamoring for such The knowledge is indispensable to the fruit grower and the Agricultural The problems of agriculture are being solved by the application of the principles of This special field has good openings for energetic young both as Government experts and as teachers in Animal Husbandry and One of the favorite and most profitable varieties of farming in Utah Is the production of good live There is both money and pleasure in a well-equipped dairy farm stocked with pure-bred cows Butter and cheese show no inclination to lower in The poultry which can be made extremely the hog 1 the breeding all in their of pure-bred or high-grade are There is room for vast improvement in the sheep industry or the All this progress will come about most rapidly through agricultural and the graduates of this course will materially A Winter's For the boy cannot leave home until the fall plowing and seeding is all and who must leave school as soon as spring the College has arranged a special course whereby he completes during the winter months exactly half a year's we if he must enter late he takes the second half o we regular first year's In this way he does not meet the of entering classes which are eight weeks ahead of This cour opens November and closes March seventeen All eighth grade graduates are admitted without examination the elementary or high school courses in from high schools enter any of the college courses in agriculture w rank of They make up any of the tec studies given in the high freshman and sophomore JT Students with two or three years of high school preparation ranked on the same with the same Preparation for That is the key-note of modern To that the boys are taught the theory and practice of ano best to ensure the development of their respective Vf t their own financial the acquisition of culture and rem i is not The courses in agriculture all include s training in and in modern cu in and the the opportunity to take and additional work in any The graduates of the U. A. C. are therefore in poc of a well-balanced 4 |