Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-30 | Page 4 | Give Experimental Farm

GIVE EXPERIMENTAL FARM. Two Citizens Tender the Land and Commissioners Will Fence It. Provo. An r,. 20 3. W. Ross and Joseph V. l)unn appeared before the board of county commissioners today and a.skcd for the co-operation of tho county commissioners In the establishment estab-lishment of a dry farm experiment station In Cedar Valley, to be conducted conduct-ed by the state agricultural colleie. Messrs, Jtoss and Dunn hat a letter let-ter from Prof, A. Merrill of the A. C. U. extension department, in which j the decision of the eol'ecre to establish estab-lish such a farm lo recorded. The forty acres of land Is to be furnlshMil by the county and fenced with a rab- bit-proof fence, and at the clos of the experiment period. alout five years, will revert to the county. Messrs. Ross and Dunn offered to furnlshe the. land, ji'l the board of j countv commissioners agreed to fence It. I The cyret(nient trnct wPl N turned over to the A;r,cultu'-il cclV , ,-n1 It Is ernocfed that the experiments conducted will prove of prent bno- . fit to the dry farm Interests of the stpte. .nd certainly to the Cedar Val- j Icy district. j