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Show " fGRIGULTURE I THE LEGISLATURE'S INTEREST INTER-EST IN FARMERS INSTITUTE IN-STITUTE WORK. The time will conic when Pros. Joseph R. Murdock of Hcber, will be best remembered as the man who first succeeded in haying placed on the statute bopks of this state, an act providing for Farmers' Institute work. That act, signed in 1896, was prophetic of the future. Since that time the philosophy of education has changed from its foundation upward. No longer is the school the only place where education can be obtained. obtain-ed. Today the school is a center of iulluence which radiates into every j-art of the territory it represents. Instruction is no longer confined to College halls. It must be taken, and it is taken to every portion of the land however remote, where information infor-mation and industrial development arc needed. The modern spirit of education edu-cation carries the new light of the world to those who sit in darkness, instead of compelling them to come to the source for the satisfaction of their needs. All this is said in view of the fact that the Legislature just adjourned, j.rovidcd for an increase in the Farmers' Farm-ers' Institute fund, from $1500 to $5000 annually, and included a provision pro-vision whereby women's work shall be taught and in every respect be made co-ordinate with the work of the farmer. .This act will give new life to the Farmers' Institute work. So popular .have the Institutes bc-Vomc bc-Vomc and so numerous have the requests re-quests for them become, that it has been impossible to meet more than the smallest fraction of the requests. In fact the attempt to do the work satisfactory throughout the whole state, with such a limited revenue, has been a practical wasting of money. mon-ey. Side by side with the Hon. Joseph R. Murdock, in the history of the Farmers' Institute movement in this state, which in a large measure will be the history of the Industrial development de-velopment of Utah will staud the name of lion. Orvillc L. Thompson of Millard County, who fathered the bill resulting in the increase of the Farmers' Institute fund, and pushed it to a successful completion in the House, and took an active part in winning friends for it in the State j Senate. Wc arc free to predict that Rcprc- scntativc Thompson, throughout the whole of his life, will find joy in the thought that he gave such earnest aid to a movement of such importance import-ance as that represented by the Farmers' Institutes. It would not be right to close this note without mentioning also the act- ive support given in behalf of the Farmers' Institute bill, by Senator J. A!. Hyde, representing Juab and neighboring counties. Perhaps no city in the state has benefitted more by the Farmers' Institutes than Ne-phi, Ne-phi, the home town of Senator Hyde. It was fitting that a resident of Ncphi I should take an active part in establishing estab-lishing the works on a surer and a more lasting basis. Finally, a: word of appreciation to our Governor, the Hon. Wm. Spry, who in all his acts since becoming Governor, has shown himself a staunch and true friend of agricultural and industrial development in this state. ... . . |