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Show A FACT OR TWO. The University of Utah Is today hemmed in by Fort Douglass on the cast, the city on the west and north and a cemetery on the south, and during dur-ing past years It has not had sulllclcnt water to keep a lawn about the buildings. build-ings. Under the circumstances, where can land be secured for agricultural agri-cultural class work, or water secured for use on such a farm? There are those who will say that most of the experimental work can bo done on the farms throughout tho state. This Is true, but what of the land required immediately adjoining the Institution. For instance the Iow,i State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts has the use of 1010 acres stocked with animals used for class purposes and their catalogue holds out that all crops of the farm arc grown for educational edu-cational purposes. A 200 acre dairy farm adjoining tho college has Just been added for class work. ,At the University of Missouri (115 acres arc used "chiefly fdr instruction." instruc-tion." Tho A. C. of U. now has 11(1 acres, useful In class purposes, and far less than It should have. "Where oh where under the blue 'can-opener' of heaven" could the University tlnd sufficient ground for tho Agricultural College? |