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Show AQHUAL.FARHflBD"" H0K1E CODVEDTIOD The Annual Fann and Homo Convention (called also the Farmers' "liound-Up" and Housekeepers' Conference) will be held during the month of December, at Mount Pleasont, from December 13 to IS, 1915. The Convention will consider this year the many important problems which confront Utah and the Intel-mountain West, Present world affairs have influnced our markets and our industries that great significance is attached at-tached to the Convention this year. The biggest business in Utah is farming. It is worth $200,000,000. Is it not true that in a two hundred million dollar business, it is vitally necessary that the investors in so gigantic an enterprise meet once, at least, a year to consider its large features? ! QUESTIONS THAT CONCERN US These are some (only a few) of j the questions we must ask our selves: What about fruit under our present market conditions? Can we double our irrigated area without using any more water? Prom what depths can underground water . be pumped profitably? Are we living up to our possibilities as producers of dairy products, milk, cheese and butter? A special report will be made on Wisconsin dairying and butter but-ter and cheese making. What can be Bold profitably from Utah farms? What should we not raise beyond the demands of the local market? Is our Utah social life degenerating or can we still claim now and look forward for-ward in increasing perfection in the most perfect social scheme in the world? Can Utah become a great beef and- sheep fattening Btate making mak-ing such enormous profits in this i business as Colorado and other near-mm near-mm by states? Or can we only range, . feed the beef and mutton, leaving the extra profits and business i to others? The sugar beet business will continue to be wonderfully profitable profit-able in Utah. We need more beets and better tillage, although in some section sugar beet raising Is conducted con-ducted on a very scientific basis. DO TOU MAKE $2500 OB $150? Why does one farmer make each year $2500 after paying all expenses, keeping his family and paying interest inter-est on his investment of $15,000, while another farmer under the same conditions and with the same investment makes $150? Surveys I, and analyses of 250 Utah farms reveal re-veal the secret of success. What should a successful, progressive farmer pay in interest for borrowed money to improve his farm? Why let Idaho ship 100 cars of hogs through our state to Los Angeles .. while Utah ships only 50 cars? Utah horses are sold at a premium in A western markets. Shall we improve ! this reputation or go back to mon grels? LIVESTOCK In several Utah counties the "poorest "poor-est beef cattle in the country" are produced, so our reputation says; other Utah counties produce as choice beef as any western state. Can we eliminate the scrubs? Can we keep in the state the several millions mil-lions of dollars now sent out each year for dairy, poultry and hog products. pro-ducts. In considering the above questions remember that Utah is a state bounteously boun-teously rich in latent agricultural j wealth blessed far beyond our pow- er to appreciate and is the geogra- !phic and business centre of the m-termountain m-termountain empire. The development of the home life in Utah since the firoi; log or adobe buts were built in our valleys, has been one of the notable things in our e! history. Such noble sacrifice for the s sake of religion, education and in the interest of future generations as was made in these log cabins and later in the more modern homes is the most inspiring part of our history. his-tory. The history of the world records nothing finer. The log huts have almost al-most disappeared. We have entered upon a new era when the world has been blessed with fuller knowledge of the laws of nature and with In- I creasing skill we are able to do the necessary work of life. This new science andart is now being applied tp';!jome life.-' The daughters of the women who made the log cabin a wonderful home, these daughters are called upon now to make the twentieth twenti-eth century home equally adapted to ' its conditions and our knowledge. it NEW KNOWLEDGE, NEW RESPONSIBILITIES We have new facts regarding disease di-sease prevention, the nutrition of the young and the mature, economy in the preparation of foods, labor saving devices, scientific arrangements arrange-ments in the home, model ' kitchens, canning and preserving, new and valuable val-uable food combinations, business management of the home, coopera-' tion between homes, proper serving of meals, home libraries, home pictures pic-tures and home decoration, proper and improper dressing, good and bad color combinations in dress, social hygiene and vocational guidance. MOTHERS MUST BE ENLIGHTENED It is true that the mother's responsibility re-sponsibility is greater than any other member of society. She first of all should be enlightened, because what she is, so, to a great extent, will be her sons and daughters. The choicest choic-est things in modern science and art are being brought to the mother in the home. iThis is the function of the Housekeeper's Conference which is to be held here soon. COMMITTEES At a special meeting of the general gen-eral committee held last Friday evening, ev-ening, working cimmittees for the success of this educational work, were appointed as follows: .! FINANCE COMMITTEE C. T. Drage, chairman, Burke Mc-Arthur Mc-Arthur and John Gunderson. STOCK SHOW COMMITTEE Emil Hasler, chairman, Henry Hasler, C. T. Madsen, Nils Larsen, Wm. L. Madsen, Earl Seely, John K: Madsen, A. E. Mcintosh, Guy Candland and Francis Neilson. ADVERTISING COMMITTEE John Gunderson, chairman, Bent R. Hansen, Prof. W. W. McKirahan, Obed Nelson, Leonard Seely, M. C. Peterson, Austin Monsen, .Ed. Johnston, John-ston, Geo. Christensen, H. LeRoy Neilson, Peter J. Peterson of Moroni, Franklin Hansen of Moroni, Lewis Peterson of Fairview, LeRoy Rigby of Fairview, Erastus Osborne of Spring City, Joseph G. Schofield of Spring City, M. A. Mikkelsen of Fountain Green and David Robinson of Fountain Green. MUSIC COMMITTEE J. M. Boyden, chairman, Mabel Borg and Miss Carrie Gray Purdy. BANQUET COMMITTEE O. F. Wall, chairman, H. C. Boau-mann, Boau-mann, J. W. Cherry and C. W. Sor-ensen, Sor-ensen, Mrs Bertha Brotherson, Mrs. Fannie Miles, Mrs. Nils Larsen. COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS' COURSE: Mrs. O. F. Wall, Chairman; Mrs. J. W. Cherry, Mrs. W, D. Candland, Mrs. C. W. Sorensen, Miss Winnifred Jensen, Mrs. A. B. Waldemar and Mrs. H. C. Beaumann. The Stock Show Committee will meet at the City Hall next Tuesday evening to outline the portion of the I work for the success of the convention. |
