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Show THREE-DAY INSTITUTE I COMES TO AH END; After paying us a longer visit and : with a larger staff than has ever been'j the ho. '.or of Emery county in the past, j the Utah Agricultural extension work-1 ers last Wednesday closed one of the most successful three-day institutes that they have experienced. Excellent ' weather was the order all three days ' and this fact induced a larger number of out of town people to attend the t sessions than would otherwise have j been the case. j Profs. J. C. Hogenson and John T. Caine, III, are' peers among the sincere workers for better agricultural ways and means and Miss Ge: trude McCheyne and Mrs. Caine are well prepared from personality, learning, and experence to teach toward the uplift of the home and home life. All of the subjects handled were dealt with thoroughly, and with the sessions thrown open to questions and discussions of all kinds it is thought that the teachings will bear good fruit and plenty of it. The Academy students stu-dents were out in full force, and it was to them that many of the remarks were specially spoken, in tue hope that thev would take the matters more lo heart and be able to inoculate the minds of their eiders with the same. Excellent lectures were given at the different sessions of the home economics eco-nomics department and there, too, were answered all the questions of the interested women folks present. Talks and demonstrations on cooking, keeping keep-ing house, and cutting and sewing garments gar-ments of all kinds, were given and much good is sure to follow. For the farmers, lectures on raising, breeding, feeding, and selecting of livestock, and the care of land with the view to securing more and better crops o every kind. Again the use of barnyard manure was urged upon the farmers, the practical results of tests with the use of the same shown up clear to their minds. It is foolish lo let thi ground wear out so needlessly need-lessly while this very helpful agent to the soil lies about wasting and a nuisance. nui-sance. The proper rotation of crops was also discussed very ably by Prof. Hogenson. Rotation of crops is one of the biggest agen.ies there is for the prevention of wee.ls, and also serve -to keep the diseases that are kin to the soil out of same and increases the bearing bear-ing powers of the soil by tak s'm different differ-ent composites out during the different differ-ent seasons. A suggested plan for rotation ro-tation is the following: First, your money or preferred crop; second, a cultivated cul-tivated crop, which serves to cleanse the ground as it were; and, third, the manural crop, such as alfalfa. 1 pint of formalin to 50 gallions of water was suggested as an excellent smut treatment. treat-ment. The beef cattle business was discussed dis-cussed by Prof. Caine. Among other remarks he said tnat never before did the beef cattle business have better prospects. Prices are very good, and where in 1900 there were 52,000,000 cattle there are but 30,000,000 now. He advised breeding straight instead of mixing as is at present done to quite an extent. The hereford, shorthorn, and aberdeen angus were among those mentioned as being among the best be:f stock. The cattle hereabout stand up very good, but there is much room for improvement. One of the best talks of the series was given Monday night when the keeping of the boy on the farm was discussed by Prof. Hogenson. It is necessary to be companionable, to make things interesting, and to put everything possible that will keep working on the ideas of the boy him-i him-i self to keep the growing youngster close to the farm. He must not be treated like a hired man, yet every incentive in-centive to greater industry and this ordinary daylight-to-dark drudgery must be lightened or he will sooner or later get away, or pine so for the other life that he will be of little use to his parents. According to the results of exper-imenst exper-imenst conducted, in the line with the feeding of work horses, it was found at that the animals were found to get a-long a-long as well on li lbs. of hay and lbs. of grain to the hundred weight of the horse, as they did on a much larger feed, on which they were started. Some very poor things were said of the stallions hereabout, though some of the mares were given good rating in the stock judging of Prof. Caine Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon; and it was urged that the people secure some young stock for cattle and horses and rear them ourselv s, as prices of good breeds are going to place their .acquisition out of reach in a few years. Altogether, it is considered that the institute just passed has been a record-breaker record-breaker for people attending Hnd for the good accomplished. |