The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-30

rrrp seven years of continuous
service at the Agricultural col
4 laee of Utah. I felt the need 'l
h.-,-f7r more intimately acquainted
v-ftb The work and equipment of sim
la, institutions i'm other states Three
no1rhs. leave of absence WAS granted
me. and tried To make good use o. Inc
time. Fifteen colleges and experiment
stations were visited. The departments
of serig.lture OF Ontario, Nanada 3i
the Dominion o. -tan&ua, at cLtaN -
and of the United States at WashinS-
Toy. were also visited. looked through
six or seven large CreaUerieS and the
Tfvprf0gk on nine or ten large SjOc<
and dairy farms was examine one
day was also spent at the chicago
stock yards. and another on tha
grounds of the New York state fair al
Syracuse
The states visited lie in nearly the
same latitude as Utah and the Ct!matC
and the crops produced are not very
different from what they are IN thla
state. Jhus. in many ways the agrlcui-
IuTat rr0bleunS ere the same me IN
stItutious visited are among the strong
est and best-equipped in America
AT al the colleges where the aSTicui-
TN N course had d strong standing, 1
noticed an increasing tendency to Spe-
cialize. increasing the number OF IN
strIctors but narrowing the Held OF
each. So that each man becomes q
specialist in some particular line. Sucl
q SpeCialiSt. because of the thorough
ness of his knowledge, viii
The confidence and respect OF even the
specialist on the farm. ilhhois' per
hans. best illustrates this expansion
u4 tezs than twelve instructors being
engaged. each a specialist IN some par
ticuIar line of agriculture
From the teaching of natural sci
ences has been evolved the laboratory
method Of Instruction the student
learns by seeing M doing. In fact,
v-itbout the opportunities which the
laboratories AFFORD many OF the prop
Ieus studied could not be clearly COM
pretended. Agriculture IN many ways
is applied science. This fact IS DelnS
more fully recognized and the Hethous
Jead so successfully in teaching the
u~atur,l sciences are being extended
more and more fully to agriculture
and laboratory WORK and laboratory
eouipmenU have become a necessity IN
agricultural instruction at successful
agricultural colleges.
Agricultural Colleges Are Costly.
Laboratories of practical agriculture
are expensive to provide ana expensive
to maintain. Professor Hehfy DeaI 81
me college OF Agriculture in Wisconsin
Tr,fvarsitv says- THE experience OF
onr university points plainly to the
fart that bona dde agricultural 1nstruc-
ZION is the most expensive lines OF any
NE have to GffeT. The least eNpehslFe
are the languages and math-
en7atice- more expensive the sciences,
san more expensive engineering, ana
Inv a,-the heaviest expense comes IN
der me term of agriculture Piafts
and auir1als are expensive 10 hialh'aii
80 - ans of them soon pass their peri
al of ss~seeuluess-
E-ortunately. the equipment OF the
ao,5enltural experiment station CON
neefed with eaeh college provides much
valuable help toward the college work
80 sSric1.ff.fe. The station should not
Sgted however, to provide ali the
ae.,fnneFI At many colleges found
tbsf a farm was operated as a part et
az college equipment. and problems IA