The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-09
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Utah Institution That is Coming to the
Front.

A Utah Institution That is Coming to the
Front.
Prof. J. w. Sanboru, president OF the
Logan Agricultural College, was in the
city yesterday and though very busy,
kindly extended a few minutes to HER
AID reporter to say something OF the i'm
provements being made.
The professor is an enthusiast, and the
great success OF this school is largely due
to the zeal and Intelligent direction
which he gives to the work. 1t is
too common for the pretentious to
sneer and ridicule at the efforts of these
rural colleges and scientific farming has
in many cases been laughed out of school.
Professor Sanborn, however, has already
demonstrated the utility of such an in
stitution, and the Logan college is meet
/ ing with the most hattering and substan-
tial prosperity.
The new, building, which received an
appropriation from the last legislature,
with the building already completed.
will supply the school with splendid ac-
commodat1ons.
The north wing, 13Ox100 feet, is nearly
finished, and the foundation for the cen-
ter, 110xS0, is in.
Three hundred and seventy students
1O1 OAiO nOAb OCAOO1 JCct1 WC1C CA4OllCO u y
to the 3rd instant, something unparalleled
in the history of agricultural colleges in
America. Everything - said the pro-
lessor, sis in the most healthy condition.
We have a strong faculty OF twenty pro-
fessors; in fact, the largest in the terri
tory.
Two new chairs have been established,
those OF hydraulics and lacticology. S.
Fortier, a civil engineer, has been ap-
pointed hydraulition and his services be-
gin May 1. He will teach scientific
irrigation and the practical construc-
ton, care and utilization of reservoirs,
canals, bitches, and all the details of irri-
CATION.
The Iactilologist, or speaking more
plainly, the butter and cheese professor,
will give instruction in the production of
dairy products. Professor Sanborn es-
Inmates that there are 1000, 900 pounds
of butter consumed in this territory every
year and that most of the higher grades
is imported from Illinois, Wisconsin and
other states. He reasons that this should
not be so, and that Utah, instead of being
an importer of first-class grades of butter,
should be an exporter, for in no other
place can hay be cured so well as
here. This rarifed climate cures
the grass to perfection, retaining q
greater percentage of the aroma and col
oring oils than elsewhere. Cattle fed
with it yield milk of finer flavor and of
richer quality. They require less grain,
and all that is required to make more and
! better butter is a knowledge of the art of
butter making, on which a great number
of our people are unfortunately ignorant.
Looking to the health of the students,
the drill has been introduced and it has
''braced up'' the boys to remarkable
extent, giving them dignity of carriage
instead of the ungainly manners which
farmers boys too often fall into.
Calisthenics will be introduced to give
physical culture to the girls and altogether
! the Agricultural college is getting ready
to brush alongside of the best educational
institutions in the west.
Professor Sanborn expects to go TO the
Worlds fair sometime in June, after
school is over. Many of the faculty Will
also attend and remain some time to
learn what they can from the methods
prevailing in other countries.