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Show uu POINTS OUT GROWTH OF FARM TRAINING ' Logan, Nov. 2S. President John A. Wldtsoe of the Agricultural collego of Utah, in convocation exercises stated that the movement for agricultural and indutsrial education was just In ILs Infancy and that the next decade would witness" more remarkable advances ad-vances in this work than any preceding preced-ing period President Wldtsoe, accompanied bv Directors L. A. Merrill and E. D. Ball of the extension division and experiment experi-ment station, represented "Utah at tho meeting of the agricultural colleges and experiment stations at Columbus, Ohio. PresiJent Wldtsoe state 1 that the association went on record emphatically em-phatically In support of what is called the Jago bill, or Senato bill No. 3, for the further support of the agricultural agri-cultural colleges, of the country. This bill provides one and a half million dollars for college extension work, including in-cluding thereunder such forms of education ed-ucation ns farmers in'stltutes, itinerant itin-erant schools, correspondence schools, demonstration farming, and home economics for people not resident nt or near colleges The bill furthor provides for the support of normal schools averaging about six thousand dollars for each state, the money all to be expended In the preparation of teachers of industrial subjects An addition appropriation Is made for teaching the trades and Industries, home economics and agriculture in tdo mgli schools. An additional provision pro-vision is made also for the experiment Gtatlons. Tho asoclation passed resolutions to tho effect that If the -whole bill was found impossible of passage that that part relating to cxtonsion work, tho carrying of the training of the state agricultural colleges to tho people, should receive tho support of congress. con-gress. This bill, according to President Presi-dent Wldtsoe, will mean much In the popular oducatlon of the citizens of tho country. |