Show INSTITUTE IS SUCCESS department well attended farmers show great interest in lectures on scientific agriculture rejoice ae e suffering for a better day is at hind hereafter no more of that despondent feeling after the dann dinner r hour tor for although ye may not know it bour our wives wiles and daughters are attending the lectures at the domestic science do de pait ment of the farmers institute and are touch inz upon the fins fim points in the culinary art demanding an unconditional dit ional surrender of the germ that undermines good health according to well estabi established asbed custom the women are taking the lead at the institute they are manifesting a greater and more general interest in the fine art of cooking than the men are evidencing in the lectures on agricultural subjects there are two women to every man in the audiences at the academy hall ball this week and this is saying nothing in derogation of the men for the attendance in the mens department is surpassing all expectations last year there were less than thirty men in attendance at the far farmers mrs school cabool in this county the first session of the present institute was attended by fifty eight men and by Wed neady the attendance had bad increased to nearly seventy men last year there were three women in attendance at the domestic science department this bear ear the school began with an attendance of perhaps seventy five caides and by wednesday afton aft afar oon on ohp th enrollment in this department part ment hid had increased LO nearly ninety miss hazel love Lovev c icho ho has charge of the ladies section has demonstrated that she possesses rare talent in her chosen line of work besides giving her auditors some expert advice on the general of housekeeping and cooking she is making actual demonstrations of some of the modern methods of preparing foods for the table the room in which the ladies indies are meeting has been equipped with a stove and kitchen utensils dr J A widtsoe opened the institute monday morning with aith an address in which he dwelt on the subject of uri urination gation dr widtsoe is firm in h his is convictions on this subject and his talk made an impression on the farmelo ile he told them thein thit that they would get better resi results its if they distributed their water over a larger area of land he tool took the stand tint thit it would be profitable to irrigate two tino 0 of f land with the water vater that is now non b being eing use used d or on one ole acre the two acres would produce a biagel cro crop P I 1 with the continued on eighth page INSTITUTE IS SUCCESS continued from first page diminished water supply than one acre well watered Nat ered he also favors what he calls the new education the education of t the be masses our or educato mal system is good said dr widtsoe in his talk at the tabernacle monday evening but we want vant to improve it it was fostered by cloistered monks and has not been the outgrowth of our industrial du ciu I 1 s system stem it should appeal to farmers and laborers and not only to professional people there was but little de lation from the program as announced last week and it would probably be admitted by all who attended that there was not one lecture in the course which was not worth many times the of admission to the weeks course the opinions promulgated by some of the speakers or rather by the speakers collect collectively iely will in time revolutionize the farming industry in this section of the state these lecturers are dwelling on the scientific aspect of farming and aad stock raising they are arc trying to eliminate drudgery guess work and discontent from the life of the farmer and through the men who attended their lectures a few i 3 ears ago it is learned that they are accomplishing the desired result A subject which is attracting quite as much attention as that of soil cultivation ti is the livestock li estock indu stiv monday afternoon prof john T came caine delivered a lecture on the dairy cow feed and management Manag ment and wednesday afternoon this was brought in contrast conti ast with the care of the horses prof L A merrill merall told of some experiments in which had been conducted at the agricultural colle college gb ile he said that these experiments showed that fifteen or eighth en pounds of alfalfa hay with about eleven pounds of grain is all the food that a work nork horse needs during a period of four hours the average horse cats about forty pounds of lucern iny bay per day and ac chiding to the tha fi figures ures of one of the stockmen stoc kmen in the aud audience ienco the state is losing annually on the excess hay that is being fed to the horses one of the most interesting features of the institute vas nas the stock judging by plot came caine on the public square tuesday and wednesday afternoons through the entreaties of the farmers at monroe monroe the lecturers have been induced to hold school at that place saturday |