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Show Summer Visitors and Work At m -kkkkkkH Agricultural College-New Circular and Wheal Bulletin-Professor Favor. H Tracy On Beet Seed H The bojsand glrlsof Utah who have not yet made up tholr minds where they are to get their next year's schooling will do well to send to the A. C. for a circular concerning the college which has Just boon Issued. It U admirably gotten up, a triumph of the printer's art and the photographer's. photogra-pher's. Everyone Interested in Industrial Indus-trial education, and every Utahn ought to be, will enjoy looking through the pictures Illustrative of college scenes about the farm, workshop, class rooms and laboratories and will find much food for reflection In the able exposition of the advantage of an industrial education which makes up the text. This was written by Prof. E. G. Peterson and contains neither rant nor bombast, but a simple straight-forward statement of the college col-lege work with all Its pleasures and advantages.. Every farmer and miller in the state, and especially In Cache county, should read the bulletin on the milling qualities quali-ties of wheat recently issued by the experiment station. Although possibly possi-bly or more benefit to the miller, yet it shows the farmer what are the qualities of the various kinds of wheat and puts him In a position to Judge what are besj for him to cultivate. If the farmers and millers will all read the bulletin "it may help to bring about that desirable day when Utah will be known as the home of some one definite variety of wheat characterized charac-terized by a high protein content, good yloldlng capacity, and desirable milling and chemical characteristics. A natlvp Mlssourian is Professor Favor, tho new assistant In hortlcul- turc, at tho collego and ho looks tho part. Black hair, dark complexion, ' 'fliifl slender limbs, and keen eyes, only tho ;H south could have produced him. He has spent much time In tho west, 'iifl however, and therefor does not come H to us a complete stranger to our J climate, crops, and Ideals. Dur- 'H ing his college work he special- iiH Ized In horticulture and botany and ,H obtained much practical experience Tjiifl in greenhouse work and landscape iH gardening and his work at the college 'H will be along these lines. As assist- H ant horticulturist In the University H of Missouri he also had charge ,H of all the photographic work JH connected with the department and Jiifl thus has had all the training of a iifl well grounded scientist. The special H side of botaulcal work that he will develop during his stay at the college Jiifl will be the study of plant habitats iH and diseases, especially fungi. He .' will also try to do much in systematlz- iH ing our collections of the local flora to H which so far little attention has been ' paid by botanists. In Professor Favor 'iiH the college has gained a well trained 'sik scientist, a practical horticulturist iH and an agreeable citizen and teacher. 'sih Mr. J. E. Tracy, seed expert of the ijiiH Department of Agriculture, spent a hiia few days at the college the past week liifl to examine the beet-seed experiments rsia of the station. He put the work of 1'iia our station above that of the five or lil six other experiment stations engaged iil in producing beet seed and aald that H climate and other local conditions are so favorable here that we can produce 4 H beet seed equal to any that Germany ' M sends us. H .i'kkkl |