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Show Director W, H. Brown Talks of its Condition. Experiments Being: Made for the Benefit of Utah Farmers. A Description of the buildings build-ings With Its Improved Apparatus W. II. Brown, who is one of the Board of Directors for the Agricultural College at Logan, returned last week from a trip there, and in conversation with a DisPATcn reporter gave the following information: The Directors went through the usual us-ual routine business, and then decided to secure three more Professors and add three more departments to the college, viz: A chemical laboratory, a business course and a veterinary department. de-partment. They also contemplate having a Mechanics' Art Building, as the basement of the College is inadequate inade-quate for the convenience of pupils. This building will be furnished with a good engine and boiler and a complete line of lathes, drills, presses, and all kinds of tools. A great many people have a wrong idea in regard to the Agricultural College. Col-lege. It is not, as some suppose, a place where agriculture alone is taught, but all branches of higher English are included in the studies, and only advanced ad-vanced pupils are admitted as students. stu-dents. A description of the College may not he amiss. There are seven buildings and a large stable on the college grounds, consisting consist-ing of college, laboratory, boarding house, the model farm house, two farm cottages, and another cottage built by one of the Professors. The college has very nice large rooms for the different departments, a chapel with a neat staye, auditorium and gallery fitted with chairs similar to the chairs in the Provo opera house. Various denominations denomi-nations hold services there, including Latter Day Saints, and when there is not a ministt-r or an elder present Prof. Sanborn reads a chapter or two from the Bible. In the basement of the college the present mechanical department de-partment is conducted. Here there is a neat boiler and engine, two or three blacksmith forges, lathes and work benches where the students can turn out wood and iron work. The boiler, for heating the building by steam, is also situated in the basement. A complete com-plete system of plumbing and water service is among the things that help to make this one of the most complete educational colleges in the west. There is a deoartment of music, where vocal and instrumental music are taught by a competent teacher. Also a ladie's domestic arts department, depart-ment, where cooking, cleaning, cutting, cut-ting, fitticg and sewing are taught. One hour each day is devoted to this department and the. aim is to find out how to do the most work in the least time, with the least amount of labor. The lady students cooked dinner for the board of directors, "and such a dinner," says Mr. Brown; "it almost makes my mouth water when I think of it. I'll tell you what; these young ladies will he able to fill any positiou in life, from the wife of a poor man, to the wife of the richest." There is also a fine library in connection with the College - w here all the leading journals are kept. An entrance fee of $5 is all that is charged here; tuition is given free of charge. .Northwest and situated about 150 yards from -the College we come to the laboratory. Here we find all the apparatus ap-paratus used by the chemist for analyzing analyz-ing the various kinds ef matter brought to him from the farm, the soil, the fertilizers used, the gram, etc., keeping him busy the year round. Northwest still further and we come to the hoarding house, an elegant building where seventy students can he acommodated with board and lodging lodg-ing at the nominal cost of $3.50 per week. East from the boarding house is the stable and barn, and it is certainly a model. ' It is divided into stalls, a tool house, a good hay loft , scales, and an engine and boiler, for heating and hoisting purposes. A perfect record is kept of all the feed brought into the stable, and grain and hay is weighed when fed to the animals and a record is also kept of this. By this method the best way to feed animals is obtained. ob-tained. There are 105 acres of land under cultivation, and experiments are being carried on. and the people of Utah will be advised from time to time as to the lesxilts. Wheat has been planted in a variety of ways, and irrigation has also been variously applied, from giving the crops lots of water dowu to dry farming. farm-ing. In regard to fertilizers, three patches of iand were laid off side bv side. 2 x 12 rods each, and subjected to the same amount of working. The first patch was sown without the use of any fertilizer; the second had a good coating of well rotted barnyard manure, man-ure, and the third had ammon ia worked into it. The result is that the wheat on the ammonia ground has grown about twice as high as that on the manured piece, and the latter a great deal better than on the sod alone. Of course the ammonia is too high priced for the uue of farmers, but it shows that it is the ammonia contained in the manure that is of the most use as a fertilizer, and that is what should be saved. These three patches were sown at the rate of two pecks to t he acre. while other patches have been sotii more thickly, until it reache 2i bushels bush-els per acre. Oats, barley, rye and other grains are also being experimented with. Experiments Ex-periments have been tried as to the best method of sowing, and it is found that grain winch has been drilled looks the best. There is 140 varieties of corn planted this year so that the best for Utah soil will be. known. There are three acres of land laid out for pasture, in which are three head of cattle feeding; alongside of this are three acres more where the mass is cat and fed ereen to the same ainoonr of cattle. Then there is another three acres where the grass is cut, dried, and ted to the same amount of cattle. These experiments are made with a view to determining the best results of leedinj; stock. Every kind of grass, fruit or vce-t vce-t ble that c,n be gro.vn in thisclinnve isb:-ine experimented with, even t-i gran- s an,j Hweet potatoes. The most improved agricultural machinery is employed on the farm. and it keeps about ten hands busy attending to it. Agricii'kure is';ai;gh' t" tie students ! by a series it Secitires d-i!V-rod ! L'rof. Sanborn.- ;f :n id' u e -Uidcnu- ; care to follow up tic 1, cuius . l.v ia.i is at their disposal f'i pract cal work Prof. Sanborn conuu. plates a trip through this county during the vacation, vaca-tion, and will then" give a series of lectures, lec-tures, laying the work of the college before the people. This year there has been 139 students enrolled, nearly half of that number being ladies. Out of this number only two were from Utah county. With the exception of a small entrance tee, the education given in this college is comparatively a free education, and our county should be much better represented. |