Show agricultural COLLEGE NOTES the agricultural college has been appealed to by the farmers of 0 emery carbon uintah and wasatch counties to help them in their efforts to avoid being unjustly treated regarding the quarantine issued against utah alfalfa seed by some of the western states on account of weevil the college officials announced to seed purchaser what counties are affected by the weevil in order to raise the quarantine on the counties mentioned which are arc free from the pest are utah soils sells different biorn all other soils of the world dr robert stewart professor ot of chemistry at the agricultural college has discovered that the arid and soils of utah when continuously cropped do not lose their fertility as regards the most important plant foods this is contrary to what scientists have heretofore been teaching and is attracting the attention of agriculturists throughout the he country the arid sections of tile the state are now being visited by a committee of government experts who are arc investigating ili the marvel marvol bus ous fertility of the soils lands cropped for thirty years a are re just as rich in important plant food as when first plowed A sixteen page circular of the agi cill cultural tural college was vas placed in the mails this week this booklet tells the story of new education new ineth methods new instructors and new courses special mention is made of the new course in agricultural engineering ne cring the democracy of aduca tion don is emphasized |