| Show TELLING PLAIN TRUTHS in late yeara year there has haa been in this part of the country a tendency of you young dg men to crowd from the industries directly associated with agriculture ioto into and mercantile ile pur suits until the latter are overstocked over stocked aud and the former measurably neglected at the same timie the idea lass has been too prevalent judging by conditions which are apparent that it does not require a very avery large amount of brains anu and intellectual framing to engage in agricultural pursuits pure and therefore there in no opportunity to display manly or secure a in that class of ti vocations to ro this situation is largely due the fact abut so BO many young men are without employment and that such a smal percentage of what should hould come directly or indirectly from the soil is actually produced recent discussion on this subject how ever is proving an important falor and is arousing fresh and lively interest inte reet leading in another direction lun an maybe may be seen in the work ingalf of horticulturists and beekeepers bee keepers societies warmers lar mers P unions dairymen s and forestry associations and young men who are turning their faces toward country life the time la is ripe for increased effort in directing attention to oil boll cultivation etc and much good work la Is being performed in this liue line among the efficient opera oper tore atom to ID this thi field we have had bad occasion to make frequent mention of the utah agricultural college in sit an address becore the chamber of commerce at AL logan an the other oiher even evening ipg prof 0 A milla f the college ft faculty culty dwelt on the topic refe re leneil ried to aud presented some pi tin t in a very Is ie manner in dewy to the questions la Is therein there in cache ache valley today a demand lor for agriculturally educated educate a men IP there a demand for better hutter butter makers for cotter better makers Is biere t jere a demaud for better horticulturists fr belter gardeners VIP the professor an with a must most emphatic yes 19 nud iud makes his bit reply applicable to all U utah tab prof mills then goes further into the civet abd adds that we need men lu iu baudy and to learn how to make four blades of grass grow where now there grows but out one we need men guen who will study to make pou pounds ode of good palatable butter where now DOW there is made but a pound of questionable stuff we rived need men to study and to go learn how t make ton ten good sound a apples and pears grow anere now we have but ten aggregations of anti and insect we need men man to study and to learn bow to breed and feed pou try that spring chick chickens may be on the market early and that december and january may be as flush with eggs as aa are may and june we need men to go study and to learn now to breed and to go rood reed hogs that they may weigh from three to four hundred pounds at about ton ten months old and the hogs hoga this age from may to september we need men to study and to learn how to breed aud and teed leed steers that at a two years old oid will weigh from 1200 to 1400 iba and bring the highest price on the open market so as to obviate the necessity of importing well men to do the feeding for us tue giving of in agriculture is begun in the common schools of canada and prof milla hillis advocates vo cates the introduction of huoh bueb teaching in the public schools in ia the he country districts of utah at ai present the dependence is on farmers P rabot ings which are few and far between and on experience apart fron froba training alDing tr it is urged that biere is no occasion for with such studies of f the english and sciences as now dow go on kut hut that abat a mixture of agricultural t can be introduced with benefit to all and fur aber that in addition to 10 a hundred bundre fj students fur for the be agricultural couppe at the college itself each winter should see at least two hundred farmers taking the be short abort winter course provided by that institution this is alive discussion of topics in te resting and important to our industrial du development As an to the butter the cheese the fruit the chickens the beef etc every practical farmer knows there to is room fr fir much larger production and for better quality and that there to is great necessia neoe seit essit for thorough education edn cation in those branches if utah dairy interests for instance were receiving proper attention there r would rould be no do occasion to report that lip IQ utah markets man mai 2 luradee lU rades as orear creamery nery butter and in bait lake city alono alona tone tolls of it are bold every month or for the common comment that the genbi genuine ne article Is ie so BO excessively salted so BO soured through J imperfect working or so ao rancid as to y be far inferior as food to the imitation butter some borne of theme theae plait plain truths should awain deep thought in pro greB gres give sive minda that educational forces may be applied to bring about a more prosperous and acid satisfactory situation than now exists present indications augur well tor for improvement provided workers in the noble doble cause will not e grow weary in well d doing oi ng |
