The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-06-10
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Director ". II. Brown Talks
Of lis Condition.
Experiments Being Made for
the Benefit of Utah
Farmers.
a Description of the 5uiId-
ings With Its improved
Apparatus

Board of Directors for the Agricultural
College at Logan, returned last week
from trip there, and in conversation
with DISPATCH reporter gave the
following information:
The Directors went through the US
ual routine business, and then decided
to secure three more Professors and
add three more departments to the
college, viz: a chemical laboratory. a
business course and a veterinary de
partment. They also contemplate
having a Mechanics Art Building, as
the basement of the College is made
quate for the convenience of pupils.
This building will be furnished with a
good engine and boiler and complete
line of lathes, drills, presses. and all
kinds of tools.
A great many people have a wrong
idea in regard to the Agricultural Col
iege. 1t is not, as some suppose, q
place where agriculture alone is taught,
but al branches of higher English are
included in the studies, and only adj
vanced pupils are admitted as stu
dents. A description of the College
may not be aDliss.
There are seven buildings and large
stable on the college grounds, consist
ing of college, laboratory. boarding
house, the model farm house. two farm
cottages, and another cottage built by
one of the Professors. The college has
very nice large rooms for the different
departments. a chapel with neat
stage, auditorium and gallery fitted
with chairs similar to the chairs in the
Provo opera house. Various denomi-
nations hold services there, including
Latter Day Saints, and when there is
not minister or an elder present
Prof. Sanborn reads chapter OF two
from the Bible. In the basement of
the college the present mechanical de-
partment is conducted. Here there is
a neat boiler and engine, two or three
blacksmith FORCES, lathes and work
benches where the students can turn
out wood and iron work. The boiler,
for heating the building by steam, is
also situated in the basement. A COM
plete system of plumbing and water
service is among the things that help
TO make this one of the most complete
educational colleges in the west
There is a department of music,
where vocal and instrumental music
are taught by competent teacher.
Also ladies' domestic arts depart
ment, where cooking, cleaning, cat
ting, fitting and sewing are taught
One hour each day is devoted to this
department and the aim is 10 find out
how to do the most work in the least
time, with the least amount of labor
The lady students cooked dinner for
the board of directors, ''and such
dinner, " says Mr.. Brown; lit almost
makes my mouth water when | think
OF 1t. III tell you what; these young
ladies will be able to fill any position
in life, from the wife of poor man,
to the wife Of the richest.'' There
is also fine library in connection with
the College where all the leading
journals are kept. An entrance fee of
s. is all that is charged here; tuition
is given free of charge.
Northwest and situated about $50
yards from the College we come to the
laboratory. Here we find all the APP
paratus used by the chemist for analyz-
ing the various kinds of matter
brought to him from the farm, the
soil, the fertilizers used, the grain, |
etc, keeping him busy the year round |
n orthweSt still further and we come |
10 the boarding house, an elegant |
building where seventy students can |
be accommodated with board and lOdg- |
ing at the nominal cost of $3.50 per
week.
East from the boarding house is the
stable and barn, and it is certainly a |
model. 1t is divided into stalls, a
tool house, a good hay loft, scales, and |
an engine and boiler, for heating and |
hosting purposes. A perfect record is
kept OF all the feed brought into the |
stable, and grain and hay is weighed |
when fed to the animals and record |
is also kept of this. BY this method |
the best way to feed animals is OBJ
tanned
There are los acres of land under
and experiments are being
carried on, and the people of Utah will
be advised from time to time as to the
results.
Wheat has been planted in variety
Of ways, and irrigation has also been
applied. from giving the
crops lots of water down to dry farm
ing. In regard to fertilizers. three
patches Of land were laid off side bv
side. 2 II rods each, and subjected to
The same amount of working. The
first patch was sown without the use
Of any fertilizer; the second had good
coating of well rOtted barnyard man
lre, and the third had ammonia worked
into It. The result is that the wheat
On the ammonia ground has grown
about twice as high as that on the
piece, and the latter great
Zeal better than on the soil alone. OF
course the ammonia is too high priced
Tor the use of farmers, but it shows
mat IL is the ammonia contained in
me manure that is Of the most use as a
fertilizer, and that is what should be
saved. These three patches were sOwn
u the rate of two peckS to the acre.
While other patches have been sown
more thickly, until it reaches u BUSH
lis per acre
oats. barley, rye and other grains
IRE also being experimental with EX-
1erlmantS have been tried as to the
,est method of sowing. and it is found
hat grain which has been drilled
ooks the best. There is 40 varieties
II corn planted this year so that the
leSt for Utah soil will be known I
There are three acres of land laid out
or pasture, in which are three head
i cattle feeling; alongside of this are /
hree acres more where the grass is !
ut and fed green to the same amount
i cattle. Then there is another three :
ores where the grass is cut, dried. and
ed to the same amount of cattle.
.hese experiments are made with a
lew to determining the best results of
eedlng stock. ,
Every kind of grass, fruit or vege- {
lhe that c"n be grown in this climate {
being experimental with, even IL
rap"s and sweet potatoes.
The most improved agricultural
lachinery is employed on the farm. !
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