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Show i COLONIST'S COURSE AT AGRICULTURAL COLLECE A new course is announced by the Utah Agricultural College which is a departure in educational methods. This is the so-called "Colonist's Course" which will be offered to educate those people who are coming into Utah and who are unfamiliar with the resources and possibilities of the State. It is hoped that many blunders in settlement will be avoided and greater return for effort will follow as a result of this work. Such a course has never ten offered before by an educational institution in-stitution in America, and ia offered because the conditions in the west are peculiar and because so many people who are coming here tn settle are unfamiliar with semi-arid conditions. The work will include a discussion of the agricultural and industrial possibilities pos-sibilities of the State and will be conducted con-ducted entirely by correspondence supplemented, however, probably by personal visits. It is thought that the railroads will welcome this course as an aid to the movement which they already have undertaken toward giving publicity to theState's resources. The coursewill last about six months and will be handled hand-led by regular assignments from the College facalty, through government and state bulletins and through citations from texts already published and texts in process of publication by the College faculty. The Course will include assignments as-signments in geography, natural resources re-sources of Utah, history of Utah settlement, set-tlement, land values and agricultural production, homestead laws and reclamation re-clamation acts in Utah, Utah soils, pr.nciples of irrigation and dry farming, farm-ing, irrigation law, cereal crops and farm crops in . Utah, horticultural products, insect pests and their extermination, ex-termination, plant diseases, animal husbandry, horse breeding, poultry industry, bee industry, transportation facilities and educational facilities. i |