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Show THE COUNTRY LIFE COMMISSION. COMMIS-SION. Utah was favored last week by a portion of the committee recently sent out by President Roosevelt to inquire into the conditions obtaining on the farms and throughout the rural rur-al districts of the country. The commission com-mission here consisted' of Henry Wallace, Wal-lace, editor of Wallace's Farmer; Kenyon I. Butterficld, President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Col-lege, and C. J. Blanchard of the Reclamation Re-clamation Service. A' met. g of the representative men of L.Ji was called to meet these gentlemen at the Governor's office. During the day three sessions were held. All phases of the pioblcm in Utah were discussed, dis-cussed, and it was believed that as much good was accomplished by awakening thought and giving an opportunity op-portunity for discussion among those at home here, as by the suggestions given by the commission. In fact th commission did not come here to cive suBcwtions oj make speeches, but it was a board of inquiry and as such confined themselves to their work very closely. The problems most discussed were the need of more teaching of agriculture in the public and high schools throughout the state; belter roads throughout the country, and better sanitary conditions. condi-tions. The need of inter-urban railroads rail-roads and a cheaper supply of money was also discussed, but these were rather incidental. Prominent among the speakers representing rep-resenting these various problems, were Dr. Widtsoc of the Agricultural College, J. G. Duffin, C J. Adncy, W. W. Ritcr, Dr. Bcatty, Peter Droubay, T. R. Cutler, Geo. Austin, W. S. Hansen, Han-sen, Prof. J. F. Merrill, Prof. W. M. Stewart, President Kingsbury, md Prof. Gillilan. Prof. Gillilan misinformed misin-formed the commission in stating that the farmers of Utah were not a reading read-ing class. The majority of the farmers farm-ers arc readers and as President Widtsoc informed the commission, the farmers of Utah arc as intelligent and efficient as can be found in any section of the United States. The writer was asked to explain before be-fore the commission, the work of the Farmers' Institute, and afterwards received words of congratulation from President Butterficld, on hc excellence excel-lence of the organization here. The work of the commission was helpful in many ways, and Utah received) re-ceived) much good from the visit of the distinguished visitors. A feature of the meeting was the banquet tendered ten-dered by Governor Cutler, and another an-other one tendered by the State Board of Horticulture, to the visitors and invited guests |