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Show HADDOCK TO GO TO OKLAHOMA Will Represent The State at Coming Dry Farming Congress to be Held October 22nd. Lon J. Haddock, of the Agrlcultur.il College will take a prominent part In the organization of tho cora'ng D- Farming Congress, which meets in Tulsa, Oklahomn, October 22nd to November 1 In, connection with tlu International Soil Products Imposition. Imposi-tion. Tho attention ot the authorities of congress wns attracted to Mr. Haddock Had-dock by the latter's showing such exceptional ex-ceptional skill and Insight In a pr-ln judging contest In the last session ct . te congress which met ln Lcttab Idgj j Canada, las't fall. As n result John T I 1 Durns, executive Secretary of the con gross has naked that Mr. Haddock b- sent to help direct the work of or? n Ration. This is n distinct compllmen to the Agricultural College and a ro cognition of tho ability of Mr. Had- i jdock. The great annual pnther'n; ' I surely has considered Utah and her ! sons prominent among tho leaders ln Agriculture. Only last year President John A. Wldtsoo had the honor to preside over tho congress. Mr. Haddock will leave for Oklahoma Okla-homa about October 10th. Many Students Coming In. Students in large numbers from all parts of tho State continue to flow in and swell tho registration list ot tho Agricultural College. While the number num-ber that applied for registration tho opening day was higher than usual, tho Influx has continued all week and tho most satisfactory feature about It to tho authorities of the school Is tho much larger number of young people of ndvanced standing Included ln the registration list. President Widtsoe nnd faculty members have been kept tremendously busy hi helping students stu-dents to arrange their .courses, find suitable quarters, and other preliminaries prelim-inaries to beginning actual class work. However, classes were prompt'- organized or-ganized and are now In full swing. The heaviest registration thus fnr is In the schools of agriculture. Commerce, Com-merce, Agricultural Engineering nnd Homo Economics. Owing to the fact that great numbers numb-ers of students put oft coming In till tho second or third week, figures as to the registration can bo nothing more than approximations. But Judging Judg-ing from the number of new students stu-dents that havo presented themselves, tho nttendanco this year will be higher high-er than last year notwithstanding that first year high school students must now seek training elsewhere. On Friday tho institution was honor ed by a visit from Dean Beach of tho Iowa State College of Agrlculturo and Mechanic Arts and President C. N. Jensen of tho llrigham Young College. Lon J. Haddock who a to bo the Extension Ex-tension Division representative In Salt Lake City, where ho will extend tho Influence of tho college by now methods, also spent the dny mnklng a stzo-up of the situation mid discussing discuss-ing plans as to his work with President Presi-dent Widtsoo. Part of tho lower floor of the enlarged en-larged Mechanic Arts Building will be dovoted to a farm ninchlnery exhibit, tho details of which will be announced later when tho plans as to l,t are so far materialized as to mako tho time rlpo for a full discussion ot tho subject. |