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Show UTAH EXHI- 1 BIT AT FAIR The mining display H best of its kind Attracts thousands of visitors. I ThcTilbuueof July 0th, publlshei jH the following interview with State H Supt. A. U. Nelson. H "The Utah evhlblts are very credit- fl able,"s.is Mr. Nelson, "the mining ex- flj dibit being the best or Its kind at the jjM fair. The agilculttiral exhibit iscv- HJ ccllent, he says, and the slgnboaul BJ "Utah Valley" attiacts people by the jJH thousands. fS "Otu educational exhibit Is much H betlei than It was evpected It would H be,' savs the State Supoiiiitcndctit, HJ 'for the leason that we only had slv H weeks In which fo got thcwoikto- H get her. It rcpiescuts moie actual ijH woik b pupils than many of the HJ laigei and nunc pietentious exhibits. HJ A gieat man f.ivoiable comments HJ have broil cvpirsscd by prominent HJ edtieatoison the meiits of the Utah H school evhlblts. Our exhibit is modern H and Its design shows a plan of work H the educational merit of which in- H vltos II u inleiest or all cduc.itois. fl "In the United States Land Giant H Agiicultuial college exhibits, sixty- H four In number, the Utah Agilcultur- H al college at Logan has surely won a jH veiy enviable distinction. In the H pi ep.ir.it Ion of these exhibits the col- H leges all followed the same plan of H Instiuctlotis sent out by the govern- H ment. In accordance with these In- M structions, the material of the cxhlb- M Its was sent to the fair and there a M careful selection was made by a com- H mittec of competent judgesor exports. jH This committee selected only work of jH met It for the exhibitions. Out of an JH exhibit of fifty-two pieces classed as H home economics, thlity-scvcn were MJ fiom the Utah college. The only two SH gowns on forms oi mounted were from JHJ Utah. In the cabinet containing H fruits and prcscivcs eighty-three out H of 101 glass jars were fiom this State, H and the only plans and diagrams on H exhibition of household economics H were drawn by the students of the H Logan college." jH Mr. Nelson told of other tine show- JH lugs made by the Agricultural college IH as well as by the public schools, mil- H veislty and piivatc academics of H Utah." Such a leport lellccts highly upon H the work or our homo Institution. H Prcs. Kerr, together with his assoc- H lates who aie at the heaif of thcdltfcr- H cut departments especially mentioned, H are to bo warmly congratulated for H thcli splendid achievements. The H Jesuits cannot be overestimated. In H three particular branches, as Is Indl- H catcd In the rcpoit, the A. C. has a H propondciancc of exhibits over all tho ; H other agricultural schools of tho H nation. H |