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Show THE SUMMER ! ENCAMPMENT The Summer !acampniri:: b-.'ld at the Utah A.;ri- iiUit.--.-l college, it l.i-gan, l.i-gan, August 2 to 5 inclusive, was a great success, around 200u people from all over the stale registering. All the visitors camped out on tiie college grounds, straw ticks and tents being furnished to all those who came unsupplied. Everything was free except ex-cept meals and they were served i-, cost. The children's nursery, Beehive Bee-hive and Scout clubs took care of the children. The swimming pool seemed to be exceptionally popular with the women wom-en folks. The college chimes rang at 6:30 every morning. Two hours were allowed al-lowed for breakfast and for preparation prepara-tion for the day's events. A series of exhibits and demonstrations were going on at the same time every day, so that visitors could select the things they were most interested in for study. Livestock and crop judging judg-ing was conducted every morning, and a field excursion was taken each day to points of interest, such as pure-bred stock farms, condensed milk factory, pea factory, sugar factory, fac-tory, and the processes were explained. ex-plained. Two of the very striking things in the visit to the experiment farm was the fact that continuous cropping crop-ping with the same crop is ruinous to the productivity of the farm. The other was the great benefit of fertilizer ferti-lizer to the soil. . Beets that had received re-ceived fertilizer gave promise of 20 tons to the acre, while those that have grown beets for a number of years without fertilizer would not i yield more than 5 tons per acre. The soil and treatment was exactly the same except soil fertilizer. Community singing was one of the enjoyable features of the meetings. In his " address, of welcome, President Presi-dent E. G. Peterson, emphasizing the fact that the college belonged to the people of the state, and that every effort is being made to make it serve the needs of the common peqple. He said the tax paying farmers are tired tir-ed of educating doctors and lawyers and are demanding equal training for the boys and girls of the farm homes. Dr. Caroline Hedger of Chicago, of national prominence in health standards was probably the most prominent member on the program. Dr. Hedger maintained that a super-mental super-mental education and training is not much good if it is acqured at the sac rifice of physical health. She said. "What good is mental ability without with-out physical strength to put Things Over." "After all, physical power is the foundation of mental strength." She offered much good advice on the training of children and gave severe criticism on the present school systems of athletics. Compared with other counties. Beaver county had a fair representation representa-tion at the encampment. There were seven car loads containing thirty peo pie, some of whom were: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Jackson. Mrs. E. O Puffer Mrs.- Jones Mr. and Mrs. Tickerman Samuel White Jr. LeRoy Harris Orville Harris Mr. and Mrs. W. E.. Smith Mr. and Mrs. John Atkin Mr and Mrs. L C White Mrs. John F. Jones Mr. and Mrs. H. A Christensen The Beaver company all traveled together en route to Logan, spending two days and a half sight-seeing on the way. County agricultural agents of the counties en route, met the Beaver company and conducted them to points of interest in their county, and turned the party over to the next county agent. |