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Show TLe Value of the work of the Agricultural ExperimsnD Station is probably underestimated by the people of thwstite. K the farmers were to adopt the suggestions sugges-tions made by the station regarding regard-ing the time of cutting alfalfa and the suggestions regarding the different varieties of grains and grasses best adapted to Utah soils, there would be an annual saving of thousands of dollars. The irrigation work of the I station is conducted on a strictly scientific basis, and is of inestimable inestim-able value in the development of wneo and Arts and Mechanic Arts have been so crowded that the j need of additional room is imperative. im-perative. A number of additional addit-ional rooms will be provided for I the department of Domestic ! Science and Arts. For the work: : in Mechanic Arts, there will be, jau extension built to Ihe forage jroom, 4G x 34 ft., and carriage jroom, 86 x 38 i; a foundry, 86 ix 36 ft.; a power house, 18 x 20, jftjandan engineering labora-J labora-J tory, 30 x 50 ft: The south wing j of the main building will proba; I bly be remodeled, the small 'chapel being fitted up for class and laboratory work. Provision Provis-ion will be made in the south basement for the work in geology geol-ogy and mineralogy. The new cattle barn will be finished, and a piggery . acd poultry building wiil be constructed at a cost of about i 5, 000. In addition ad-dition to all these impiovemeuts, 815,000 will be spent for additional addi-tional equipment, and other improvements im-provements will be made wbich will add greatly to the facilities for thorough and efficient work throughout all the dpirtmeats of the institution. 1 this arid region. The last legis-1 Jlature appropriated 812,500 for1 j the establishment of five or more j experimental farms ic different J counties of the state for the pur- ! pose of determining the varieties ' of grains, grasses, etc , that may J be profitably grown on dry or j arid farms. During the past year, besides J the formal establishment by the: Board of Trustees of the . five schools before mentioned, a more j thorough organization of the dif- ferent departments of the Col-1 lege has been effected. During the past fw years a, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. The following facts concerning ke progress and plans of the -Agricaltural college are -'gleaned from the annual report -of President Presi-dent W. J. Kerr, and will be of interest at this time: The Agricultural College of Utah is a national as well as ft tate institution. It belongs to that class of educational institutions, institu-tions, commonly called land grant colleges, whieh wire established -in pursuance of an Act. of Congress Con-gress and which are maiatained by both federal and state appro- j priatipns. great number of students have,j applied for work in muaic, desir j ingtocevotea fe hour ''each j week to this work along with the work of their regular college courses. To meet this demand, the Board of Trustees at a meeting meet-ing held on June 9, established a department of music. Prof. J. A. Anderson of Salt Lake Cifey, who, in addition to bis draining in Utah, has spnt between aix and seven years in the best conservatories con-servatories in Europe, was employed em-ployed as instructor in this department. de-partment. Other instructors will be employed before;- the opening of tSle College in September Septem-ber x. I There have been ia aU'eli3anceT The territorial legislature of y Vtah accepted the provisions of he national law in 1888, and in !S90,thirteen years ago.the Agri- cultural Colleg was first opened for the admission of students. SSince that tie, the College has yecelred from the federal government. govern-ment. $500,000; from the state, I$339,129; and has derived an in-ome in-ome from sales, fees, te. of 262, mtking the total income received for the thirteen years SS918.391. : The College to-day comprises Sve ditinctive schools: the School of Agriculture, the 33ehool of Domestic Science and r -Arte, the School of tuuiixieivyV,-j tiio School of Engineering and Mechanic Arts, and the school of Cteneral Science; also the Agricultural Agri-cultural Experiment Station. Its -sxpe and work are in accord fitb. the federal law and strictly in line with the spirit and policy ot the best agricultural colleges of the country. The mission of "ae Agricultural College of Utah 3s to assist in the great work of SudiiBtrial education, to meet thej eds of the people for a "liberal nd practical edscation", and toj promote the derelopment of the yaried resources and industries, r the slata. The value of the! "work done by any college can probably best be measured by! Zh success of its graduates'. 3in& graduates of the A. C. U. re at present employed in the .government service in the De apartment of Agriculture and the Geological Surrey Representative graduates of ih College are no teaching in fee Uuiversity of California, the University of Wyoming, the Agricultural College of Montana, 13 Agricultural College of Utah, -ud other institutions of higher at the Col'ege during the . past year 545 students, representing nineteen different counties of Utah atad the states of Idaho, Ar'zona, In liana, Massachusetts.. Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wyoming, together to-gether with the Dominion of ! Canada. The present graduat-' ing olass is the largest in the history of the institution. Of j j Utah, the cointies of Cache, j j Box Elder, Wayne, Millard, j Piute, Sevier, and Carbon are represented; and the states of Idaho; Wyoming, and Indians., One very encouraging feature of j the attendance this year has' been the large number of students stud-ents who have entered the College Col-lege for advanced work from high schools and other icstitut-ions icstitut-ions of higher learning. The students have been earnest, industrious, in-dustrious, and energetic. Their conduct as a whole has been I very satisfactory. j Notwithstanding the fact that the College comprises eighteen different buildings, the work in some of the departments this year has been hampered on accoujtof insufficient room. The 'departments of Domestic Sci- -leirijing. Members of the pre--Bcnt graduating class and of the 4aior I and sophomore classes -5sre been engaged for the ssm-3Br ssm-3Br in the government service. seventy-fire creameries of siMs state are managed almost waoJ.ly by men who have receiv-d receiv-d thir triiuing at the Agricul-sturil Agricul-sturil Colleie. Besides these, Sire a,re graduates and former Trtadents, too numerous to men-tonf men-tonf who are engaged as sHCctsa-fill sHCctsa-fill business men, engineers, etcbera.and farmers in Utahrnd |