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Show Future Farmers Training at A. C. There are more students studying agriculture at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college in proportion to the state's population than are studying agriculture at any other land-grant college or university in the country. This interesting situation was discovered dis-covered through a survey and study of agricultural registration in land-grant land-grant institutions by acting Dean E. J. Maynard of the school of agriculture agricul-ture and forestry. For every 1500 of the state's population one student is taking a regular degree course in agriculture ag-riculture and forestry at the Utah State Agricultural college. Idaho Is next to Utah in respect to agricultural enrollment. One student, of every 1080 of population is studying study-ing agriculture in Idaho. Oregon is next and Colorado fifth on the list. The record is particularly significant in view of the fact that Utah is not. as completely rural as certain states such us Iowa and the Dakotas. Further investigation showed that the school of agriculture and forestry at the Utah State Agricultural college col-lege is more important as far as enrollment en-rollment is concerned than it is in other land-grant institutions. For (Continued on last page) Future Farmers Training at A.C. (Continued from page 1) every 2.9 male students at the college, one is working toward a regular, standard degree in agriculture and forestry. This does not include students stu-dents taking closely related work, or mechanic arts, or agricultural engineering engi-neering students. Colorado Agricultural Agricultur-al college is tied with the Utah ..chool in this respect, one student taking a degree course in agriculture for each 2.9 male students, but other land-grant institutions are considerably consider-ably behind these two intermountain colleges in this respect. Dean Maynard considers the information infor-mation as particularly important as indicating the strong position agriculture agricul-ture has in Utah, and the absolutely basic position of the school of agriculture agri-culture and forestry in the work of the local institution. |