Show THE agricultural COLLEGE among the various educational institutions of the territory that are enter entering lug upon the active duties ot of the school year 1898 1893 4 is the utah colitre at bogad this institution is dealing with an ic import aport but au branch or the education or 01 the and itle it la a matter of latigu that markou marceu success gaoat has at to lenued na edits ito mine management gement from the autret the a proper kr brining ining in the eigles that rebate U to agriculture are at much greater and of more urgent nece to the welfare of a comma situated as aa oure our Is ia than at first gance appears to the casual observer to 10 be the tb buee until the subject receives rec ivea thoughtful consideration hobt people conclude cou clude that thu the in at ab agricultural college is such as relates to and benefits bengts those only who are ex ec in the avocation of arming not all people cm comprehend that it reaches to the the gardener the fruit or the flo florist risi and lew law who have nut not investigated realize that the training to lu an agricultural college extends fully into the business ilie liivand and is ia intimately connected with every branch of trade yet such is the toot tact ane given la uia tu is in or great and value not only to tibe the cultivator of we the field but to the purchaser 0 the products to the user as well am ae tu to the breeder of cattle Lj orace snoop hogs and poultry pou liry to the lue 0 f brums rums as aa well ws aa to the grower it Is s ulal to the worker ot of like ine email vity city gar gaguen atin who cultivates omy a few vegetables vegetable a for his own table use and to those who till broad sores acres or ol range the country with nerda of stuck to tile the consumer of af agricultural pro ducts that he may recognize tat quality and use or oi thal thai chiun comes to him and to the producer that mat he may un deraad derai aau how bow and what to lo toe the importance of disseminating among alt classes of the people eago dge on the various in tile the broad term agriculture Idis an urgent reasor why the college at logan anu and similar institutions should b be efficiently supported aup ported anu and thorough thor rugh ly jy patronized toe tat vidue value of an aa agricultural training bas bae received ed recognition in other countries thau our own possibly the small mall nation of belgium stanus in the front lu in this thia regard it la is classed ba the most moat densely populated country in europe anu anil what to ia more remarkable la Is the tact that three fourths fourtha of the people live jive in the rural c districts by comparison with the city people eople this thia three are tatter better off than are the rural rurue population of our own country taken AS aa a mass this to is due to a more perfectly worked out system of agricultural education it Is true that the belgian farmers are not as well off bs art re those 01 the west but that is be baube their national standard ot of corn com f rt is much lower than ours they would be in a much worse con condition dation thitu they now are but lor for the excel excellent lout training they receive in agricultural methods this is shown by the develop developments molues that have been maue maje there in agri agricultural cui education in the last ten years out of a total area of ten million acres of land III 16 the country lees 1088 than half bait a million acres are waste waslo land and mood mont of this Is fenced off ual ini fields and devoted to permanent pa pastures the soil is made to produce to its full extent tor lor the support and comfort of its ita inhabitants such things as aa waste of materials and ak effort are r comparatively unknowns na a con which has been atta attained luea through ft a thorough system of agri cul cultural tucal education and one which would be of vast benefit here impre in pro ven loss and adding to the mt mit aerial wealth of tile the community in genera gent raj this avoidance of waste through took lack of information regarding the proper gueth methods of cultivating and protecting rope crops in garden drobs orchard rd or field this utilization of resources and bringing forth of the wealth and strength of the soil that prevail in belgium are object lessons ot of what can aun be effected in our own country by proper pr per and thorough education such as 48 is Ou designed signed in the government cultural colleges we want and need these there are features the belgians that are to be shunned as I 1 for instance the working of women in the fields and market garden gardened artic buch h U undesirable elements ment need hate B but u t that which is IB beneficial oy by giving to us ua the gulf full strength of the earth with t the be k least waste of energy add substance should be earnestly and persistently aoi sought if ht af after atef wean it can by a thorough and general system of agricultural education be brought much more perfectly into the actual service of the people than it now is in let the good work tho therefore of the college go on with the full aup support of f the people |