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Show ATTENDANCE WILL BE GOOD AT ENCAMPMENT EN-CAMPMENT Iteports from county agrlcultur- il agents concerning the number who "will attend tho farmers summer encampment to be held at the Utah Agricultural College from August 2 1 5 Inclusive, nro very encouraging according to Dr. It. J. Evans, director direc-tor of the extension division ot tne loge. From fifty to seventy-five people are expected fro niRome ot the , counties while the agents from Weber, We-ber, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Sevier Se-vier will probably send from seventy fire to ono hundred according to. Prof. J. C. Hogenscn, In charge ot Institutes nnd nchool extension division. divi-sion. Tooele will probably havo thirty and Sanpete approximately fifty rpprcsontatlvcs, Tho chances aro that tho extreme southern and eastern counties will not bo In a posl tlon to send quite so many as this duo to tho long distance that has to bo traveled In order to reach the college. Not all of the official reports re-ports are In yet and It la likely that these numbers will be exceeded in somo cases. The college Is preparmg for a largo .enrollment of farmers and their families "In gcnoral tho"- farmers are-", extremely ex-tremely enthusiastic loVer theprds-pocts theprds-pocts of the encashment," .said Professor Pro-fessor Hogonson ,'Th'ey aro doing everything possible'' 0 that they nay be ablo ,to,n(lend. Thoaum-'mer Thoaum-'mer encampment, has one distinct advantage ad-vantage over thd winter rodndups In that it Is held just at the time when tho work of the collego agricultural experiment station may bo most advantageously ad-vantageously demonstrated to tho farmer. We find that man i armors aro far from woll Informed'Wto tho work of tho experiment station, . Ono very important duty then of tho onenmpment will -bo to Ehqw UiQ farmers 'by means of trips to tho station experimental farms and plats and other tnc-ana just "what tho station Is doing to aid hotter farm-tog." farm-tog." t It Is offlcllally stated that Davis and Utah cojtntloa . ord 'njoMng tbtf Utah Agricultural' COUegd farmer' summer encampment tho' occasion Jl ' for tho official annual farmers excursion. excur-sion. The farmers In thoeo counties ore not planning any other regular annual trip. It Is llkoly that other counties will do tho same. The collego Is ready to welcome , next Tuesday the largest delegation of fanners and their families which has over assembled on the campus. |