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Show i mi AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, I 7 IWSTITUTIDW THAT TRAINS FOR SERVICE In E Robinson, in Charge of De-' De-' tS,Z','nt of Information-Service, ; f.h Aflricultural College.) ( nzt result of the present world war J 0cl. annarent Is the change that Is SSln the curricula of tho 3 v.r Hucailonal Institutions of the ; w5 Thomas Stockham Baker says ' lf,iihl cducaUon of the future must i Ln Intensely practical thing, "not WSJl In the sense of the word of Sr means of earning a livell-but livell-but practical In a much broad-' broad-' " The curriculum of the Utah I ?J3turaI college hns been "prac- i , ' n much broader way" now for I U? B? years. Ever since the i Srdlns of the Insttiution its aim has . f n train young men and young en to make a living and a life to ' fn rood citizens In the broadest 1 wto. 5? the terra. It did not take a I to force the school into VZZ with the newer ideals or edu-I edu-I SSS Wen the war came the Utah cultural college, vaa ready with an ' Snt organization admirably adapt-1 j 26U, meet the extraordinary condl-i condl-i lhlUahr0AgTicultural college is i JJartcd Jointly by the federal goy-5 goy-5 .Id the state of Utah. It I'' Sts of three broad divisions, K In their ramification!, cover S entire field of Industrial educa. The college proper, established t Slogan,' Utah, is the center of the id of the institution. Hero in x-' x-' Sive buildings, the interior Instruc-'of Instruc-'of the college is earned on Six Sols of instruction make up this dl-! dl-! Son of lhc Institution, the school of I ISenlture. the school of home eco-' eco-' rTnica the school of commerce and ) SJbpss administration, the first of its 'i vmd to be established in the United 4 ?ute the school of agricultural en-i en-i filtering und mechanical arts, the j god of general science and the i qunraer school. The curricula in these nrtous schools are so adapted to the 1 Srfs of the individual student that hey take the young man or young - omcn from the farm, the home the i ,50?. the factory, or the secondary chools and give him or her that dual ' (raining in practical and cultural matters mat-ters so essential to complete develop-mcnt develop-mcnt and true cllizenship. The plant of the Utah Agricultural college is Ideally situated on the foot- tills of the Wasatch range in northern . Utah, overlooking the little city of Logan and the beautiful Cache valley. Facing the brow of College hill, is the ' nam building, covered with ivy and . lurrounded by level lawns, shrubbery'. ' ud beds of many colored flowers. Di-rectlj" Di-rectlj" south of the main building is iituated the mechanic arts building, ilio ivy covered, fronted by a wide ' expanse of lawn used by the students ! for outdoor rallys, plays, and other ' jollifications. Nestling among pine and fir trees, the Utah experiment ' jtation stands at the north of the main ' balldlng, while just beyond is the pres-' pres-' : Mcnt's residence, and, beyond that, jje Thomas Smart gymnasium, a new and roomy structure. Just below the ; sjicnasiurn, footing College hill, is the i ' women's building, a large, three-story j edifice devoted entirely to work in do ' nestle science and arts. On the back campus Is located the chemistry build-; build-; It?, new and commodious. Just be-; be-; bind this structure, the animal hus-' hus-' bindry building is now in process of t construction. When completed, this j tdlding will contain as well equipped laboratories for work in dairying, for-j for-j esuy, and range management as can j be found anywhere. Scattered at var- tons points over the eighty-one acres , !, composing the campus, are the sheep . ; and cattle barns, the horse barn, the - Teterlnary hospital, the conservator-? conservator-? t, the poultry plant, the heating plintand several minor farm outbuild-I outbuild-I tap. The Utah Agricultural college is pioneering pio-neering the way in certain home train-Ins train-Ins called at the institution "mother-,t "mother-,t craft." This work, which has never ' , before been given by a publicly supported sup-ported educational institution, trains ( Ice young women in the complete scl-, scl-, lence of home life. The care of infants ! wd children in health and disease is ; jtadlcd under a graduate physician. , Proper dress for mother and child are j studied and attention is given to child j Pmes and stories. The entire devel- cpaent of the child in its home set-;. set-;. tifj is Investigated. To secure labo-b labo-b f1!0 Practice, the young women go ; aw the homes whore they undertake, h 55jr careful supervision, the care of ,; ttudreiu J0.?,101110 economics practice house fM l8hed Is year at tho institution, ' cal Avork in home-making is ) Kr, emPha!ized. Ia this house dif- , ouns of Girls will live for defi- dSLPi ods keePInS house under the 1 5!r 4 0f efic!ent matron. Each ' $a1a ii mU8t Derfrm all house-. house-. j-.a duties, from conducting the laun- 'u Li, 5,?nn,nB the menus f6r the and huying the provisions. - liJ,! recPl reservc officers' trains' train-s' &n v p held on 016 Pacific coast at ' iS.Ianc!BC0 told as much of the ef-i ef-i Z educn"on as it exists at to h? Aericultural college as any ;. oaiS?or ,could weU tel1- Twenty-' Twenty-' IciiS cIassmen and alumni of the ; dSSn wcr accepted as candl-, candl-, umo x ,mn?i99ins at this training lotewr. m thG camP as a wh0,e 50 Z l Were the standards that over r " aa rn DAl 01 the aPPUinLs failed to St ann?ud ?ut of the twonty-ono Ag-5uiHnt?.8evcntecn Ag-5uiHnt?.8evcntecn 8ecured com' ; m in i rlanklnP frorn second lieuten-' lieuten-' lirat ifo0r two navo slnce received tod l ln, nancios and another a sec- CnS! S?COnd training camp made 1 tavo ?n ai0n' while twenty-three Us third .a?C,pted as aPPHcants to . loird training camp. ' AwSHi,na,n division of the Utah ' C5 nli U i0: The experiment sta-tltutlon sta-tltutlon tbe ordInary sense, an i Wed oJ lTC model farmlnS Ib Pose Thi 8 a much hIgher Pur" ' lectin iPracces of tbo farmer are b&Lt 8c'en"flc testa in order ; ohiut .Cu,ng 0Q tbe suggestions tsEinn l dentists begin new oi SSt vSSf' ? the hope that trutus ' Sed Ai.10 Tthe farmer mQy be : ,lces itc if he Utah 8tation C01i- ntaln St. proble,nB f intor- Uon S If ?U- IrrieatIon, the fouu- f2rinlrn: Snlf 1 ateentlon, while dry- - Hancc to ,1 ' f alrao3t elual lm" 1-1 cc to those of irrigation in the development of the west, have been and are being thoroughly Investigated. Fifteen years of work In the breeding breed-ing of sugar beet seed have developed desirable strains o seed for America, and six years of experimentation in the commercial production of sugar beet seed have demonstrated that the western states can g'row this seed very successfully on a commercial scale. Already, Al-ready, acting oi these findings, several sever-al companies have been formed for the production of this seed and the time appears to be 'not far distant when America will be independent of European imports. The origin of the alkalies in the !ioll has been the subject of much investigation investi-gation and successful methods of reclaiming re-claiming infected land have been evolved. Much breeding work in potatoes pota-toes and alfalfa has been carried on, as have investigations in the feeding of live stock, the bacteria relations in arid soils, nitrification, and ground water development. Important frost studies, in which whole trees hayc been frozen, have been undertaken; pioneer work in tho control of various western crop pests has been carried to a successful conclusion, and crop diseases have been extensively inr.sli- , J gated. Notable work in the breeding j of poultry has been conducted as havp i many important incubation experi-I experi-I ments. Valuable horticultural experi- ments are now under way in which in dividual tree records are being kept, rooting- systems of trees mapped out, : pruning methods being perfected, and soil treatments for orchards dcvel-: dcvel-: oped. The extension division of the Utah Agricultural college represents the kit est development in agricultural education edu-cation whereby information is carried to the farm and to the home. "The whole state is the campus" is the slogan slo-gan of the extension division' and this. I is literally true. j Aside from ten farm and home spe cialists working continuously over Utah, there are twenty -three countv agents covering twenty-five counli' s or over 90 per cent of the area of the state. Nine home demonstration agents are also at work in as many counties. Twenty thousand boys and jgirls are working under the s'upervi-. s'upervi-. s ion of four state club leaders and thirty-five district leaders. Last year at four big farmers' and housekeepers' gatherings over one thousand fanners, ! farmers' wives and business men secured se-cured the latest of practical information informa-tion on agricultural, home, and commercial com-mercial matters. Over one hundred thousands were present at Institutes, I schools, and other meetings held I throughout Utah Over fifty -five thou-i thou-i sand citizens of Utah. Nevada, and California visited the hugh national i preparedness train sent out by the Utah Agricultural college co-operating with the state institutions of Nevada and California. During the past half year the greatest great-est emphasis has been laid upon problems prob-lems concerning increased production and greater conservation of food materials. ma-terials. So well did the spriug plans of the extension division 'work out that, throughout Utah, there was recorded re-corded an incrense in the acreage planted In farm crops, in cities, of over 4000 acres, while an increase of 38,750 acres was secured in farm land, i Dairy cattle were increased in number by 250G head, 11,150 head of range cat tie were added to Utah herds. 60.175 'head of sheep, 1320 horses. 8320 hogs, land poultry to the number of 70,450. |