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Show ROUNDUP PROVES VERY POPULAR AND OPENS NEW ERAJO THE FARMERS (' irrenpondenre TJte Hun LOGAN, Tob. 5 The adult clnss woik conducted foi tho past two weeks In connection with the fnrmers' roundup and housekeepers' house-keepers' conference nt tho Utah Agricultural college is characterized character-ized by those who observed tho work accomplished as the beginning begin-ning of a new era in agricultural education in Utnh. Tor two weeks several hundred fni-mers nnd farm women were given actual class and laboratory courses of instruction In phases of farming most interesting und most important to each. "The class work is one step forward in the extension of ngri- cultural college education to the farm and home," said Dr. Jobs A. Wldtsoe, president of the college. "The clnss nnd laboratorj add to the value of the icgulai lectures given at these roundups, because theio arc many questions that cannot be convenient!; ausweied at the lectin es, but which can be explained in the clui loom and laboiatoiy. 1 hose courses will be given regularly in tti futuie eacii winter, and will be made more extensive. They vril provide good, practical educations for the farmers and the hout-wlves." hout-wlves." "Tills work, I believe, is the beginning of a new era in dun tlonal movements," said Dr. V. G. Peterson, director of the extension exten-sion division, "and will doubtless lesult in thousands of fnrmen coming to the college for a few weeks each winter for class nni laboi atory w ork. Next year w c plan to offer more courses, cmploj more experts to teach them, nnd thus give greater oppoi Untitle U the fnrmers for agricultural education in all Its branches." 'llio most populai couiscs, in point of attendance, dining tbt past two weeks have been those in veterinaty practice, potato anil grain diseases, dairy iccords and testing, and poultry, for the men floricuituie, home decoration, home economics, eugenics and u onion's oni-on's orgnnirations, for the women. Miss Gertuule McChene, who has charge of the extents 'division work for women, said todn that moio courses would b offered next onr foi women. She said that the housekeeper conference was now able to do far moie effective work, becaiw the attendance was sufficiently largo to permit the meeting of tti end dlffeient classes al the samu time, thus giving n gi eater vr iety of the special kind of woik wanted by each woman pre --int. The women nt tho confeicnce took speclnl inteiest in the rr jKised statewide campaign for cleaner and more sanitary milk ? piles in nil parts of the state. A committee composed ol Mr John A. Wldtsoe of Iognn, Mis. Abel Ricks of nrlghnm Cil. Mr I J. W. Paxman of Ncphi, Mis. Geoigo R. Hill and Mrs. W. C l'otlir of Iognn, drafted lesolutions on the subject. They were pased unanimously and lead as follows: "Re It resolved, that we, the membeis of the faimcrs' it'inc"? and housekeepers' conference, held at Ixigan Jnnunry 2Hh t February Cth, do pledge ourselves to suppoit and assist, It wht' ever wavs possible, the state wide campaign for snnitaij mitt und "He it fuither resolved, that we uige this lesolution be bOitti ( every city, town and farm In tho state of Utah, and that we plcJ; our suppoit to statu officers who hnve the woik In chnige." |
