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Show m - Horticulturists Organize. H Dr. Widtsoe Tells Some Wonderful H Possibilities of Irrigation. BBb The horticulturists of Utah in their V meeting Saturday clTcclcd theorganl- BBJ station they were after and named BBK committees deemed necessary. The BBl morning session was devoted to bust- BBfll ncss Incident to organlatlon. BBJ In tlic afternoon Dr. Widtsoe, of 1 the A. C. of U. Experiment Station delivered an address of which the Her- aid says: BBJ TIiu principal address was made by BBJ Dr. .1 A. Widtsoe, director of the ex- BBJ purlmcnt station at Logan. Dr. BH Widtsoe spoke gcneially of the Utah BBt station In relation to horticulture. BBJ lleglnnlng by brlcily pointing out the BBJ benefits of organl.at Ion Dr. Widtsoe BBJ Kct fourth the various ways In which BBJ the cxpciinienti station could and dc BBJ hired to hoof asslstanco to hortlcul- BBJ turallsts throughout tho state. BBJ He enjoined his hearers to lemcm- bcr that the oxperhnent station was BH not a model farm. Its puiposo was BBJ to (liid out wha.. was bad as well as BBJ good for fruit glowers, for It was as BBj essential to tho hortlculturalists to BBj know what not to do In cultivation of BH fruit as It was to know what should BBj . be done. Dr. Widtsoe urged tlioso BH present to feel at liberty to call upon BBj the experiment station for a solution BBjv of their pioblcms at any time. He BH said that the new central experiment BH station, provided for by the recent BBj: legislature would be located in cither BB Salt Lake, Weber, Davis or Utah BB county and that undoubtedly Its aim BB would be particularly along tho line BBj of horticulture. BB The speaker called to tho fanners BB generally to reserve their irrigated BV lands especially for tho crops which BB would yield them the most money. lie BB drew a picture of the time not far BB distant, when the horticulturist, BH ' with his knowledge of the proper use BB of water might say with pieclsion Just BB how much acid ho wMicd his apples BB to contain, Just how much sugar and BB ofwhatllavor Ills grapes should be, BB etc. Dr. Widtsoo expressed his con. BB tldcncc in Utah's "Dixie". He drew BB a glowing picture of its future when BB all Its possibilities had been taken ad- BB vantagoof." |