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Show A GOOD SCHOOL. The people In some of the agricultural agricul-tural counties ln ltah might well follow fol-low the example set by Dunn counts W Isconsln, In establishing a county sthnol of agriculture us destilhed In tin nrtlele on thc first page of this Issue Is-sue The fact Is apparent that no agricultural agri-cultural college can ever meet the full reqiilrementa of the rising generation for practiial Instruction In elementary agriculture l'rnm the very nature of things the boys and girls u ust I 16 to . sears of age before entering the agrl cultural college oung people who live on farms up to that age without a knowledge of the beauty and tttlllts of agrte ulturat science are apt to he P judlecd against the farm und farm life It Is therefore, difficult to turn them toward agi (cultural subjects when thes enter tho ngrltultuial college col-lege As a result the engineering and commertial departments are overcrowded over-crowded and the less useful courses In hlstorv social srienee civil government govern-ment political economy and the language lan-guage retelve more than their merits entitle them to I'nfortunatels In some of the ngrltultuial colleges the inllu-ences inllu-ences arc all calculated to lead a soung man away fiom agriculture and to make him feci that it Is not tho pioer thing to study botany and stnek-brccd-ing and dairying and horticulture and thc nuinemus other bran. lies that go to ground him ln the silence that Is the foundation of all advanced agil-cultuial agil-cultuial woik Bo lie n thnt the love of nature and the bcuutlrs of ugiieul-tural ugiieul-tural science should be Instilled Into the minds of the young people In the dls. trirt and county schools To thut cud thrie should not only be elementary instruction In the common schools but a ti gher grade of agricultural training should bo maintained in u county high school In all the more populous agricultural agri-cultural counties Take for eximple Utah county In this State The boys and girls In that county should be tuught from the beginning thut they are living In a very empire of wealth thnt Is locked up in the soil The school ehlldicn should all be taught thut their one county under proper cultivation may yield In fruits and eei nla and sugar beets and dairy pro. due ti more than I now being produt ed in ans five counties tn this Bt.it" The children should be taught why in .1 how this may be done- why the soil be-i be-i nines depleted and how to enrich it, why cultivation I necessary to eon-serve eon-serve moisture and how ueit to do It, whs perfect tilling unlinks the lni rls-ill rls-ill ii I Ml Hi i 1 1 im I lull it f ie p e i i i i ih- "-iv ' r -1 i p tl bor i iitin vny whs imrr;v-d van- ri" of fruit nie n "-r i r-.ee til en ecedllngfl and how to pro, jk te the derlred sorts There re but few of the sulijeta that should he taught In the enmnrn rchools vti the inn mention of them must indie e tv htj thouahtful perron the tirti'iise prat tlrnl v-iluc of such education and lhe wonderful Influence such naming must have upon the tnatttial development of this State The lnter-M6untftin Tarmer stands unequivocally In favor nf the couitv agricultural high school and for sa h revision of the common school courses as will enable the graduates from the eighth grade to lake up the advan ed work of the central high school |