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Show Carbon-Emery Roundup Ends After Week's Work The first full week Farmers and Housekeepers Convention to be held in Carbon or Emery counties came to an end at Huntington last Tuesday with some of the most successfu1 meetings held during the -veek. That day was Emery Stake Academy day and the local school turned out enmasse and made an excellent showing. With the intelligent talks by the representatives from the Agricultural College who all expressed their belief in the great future of our country and the equally inspiring talks bv representative represent-ative men from the two counties, all . those who attended the convention feel encouraged to go on and attack the problems before them in a systematic manner as suggested b. these men, thoroughly converted to the methods proposed for treating each different proble.ii. Upon the suggestion of Prof. Stewart the pro 1 ms before our people were divided into eight principal divisions and a committee will be appointed by Prof. Stew;;rt to study out a systematic plan of solving each problem. The following follow-ing problems were decided upon as most fi r;hy of investigation: 1. Reclamation of swamp lands. 2. Health of livestock. 3. Methods of measuring and distributing distri-buting irrigation water. . 4. Local dairy business. 5. Marketing of farm products. 6. Seed selection. 7. Farmers' organizations. 8 Co-operation pioblems. The problems will all be surmounted in the two counties, too, if the feeling J of assisting is as general throughout j the county as it was at the meeting j Tuesday afternoon when a unanimous vote of support was given. All the assistance possible will be given by the College and it is believed that, starting with the firm faith of our own farmers, borne out and strengthened by the business men of the two counties and helped by state and government, tiere will be little chance of failure. I It was conceded that the organization j and united action of the farmers them-i them-i selves is one of the most important problems confronting U3 and this will ! probably be worked out first hs little j can be done in any line of endeavor until the farmers present a united front and work together. Following this the matter of reclaiming our water-logged land will be taken ud and, with this discouraging condition removed all the other matters will be easy. I Two men will likely be selected from each of the larger towns and one each . from the smaller communities and this committee will Immediately organize and get down to business. The Roundup, altogether, was a huge success and though the attendance was not what it might have been the college people expressed themselves as being ; well-pleased with the crowds present. In the 17 separate meetings held there were 2700 men-attended while 578 women attended the separate women's meetings. Nearly $100 was realized from registration fees. Summarizing what had been done at the women's meetings, Miss McCheyne , urged more economy of money, time, and especially of labor umong the womenfolks, wo-menfolks, and hoped that eyery woman would do her utmost to adopt a system about the home that would result in the removal of all. friction. Prof. Caine and Demonstrator Stewart Stew-art summarized what had been done by the men and each suggested better methods of doing many things about j the farm, and thanked the people of I Huntington for their excellent treat- ment while in their midst. In turn Bishop Nielson and Principal Fenton, speaking for the Huntington people, thanked College people for coming and bespoke their gratification at seeing as many present from the reBt of the county coun-ty as there were. They were sure of the good done in Huntington and pledged pledg-ed a large attendance of Huntington people at any future Roundup, where-ever where-ever held. |