The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-01-01
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technical courses. The general science
course gives such students broad ed
ucational training and prepares them
for positions of trust and responsible
ty as specialists in different industries
or in the educational profession. 1t is
also well adapted to persons who de-
sire to prepare for the professions Of
medicine and law.
WINTER COURSES.
For the accommodation of persons
who are unable to attend school
throughout the year, special winter
courses are offered in the different
subjects of agriculture, mechanic arts
and domestic arts. Persons of mature
years who have been deprived of edu-
cational opportunities will find these
courses especially helpful. Winter
course students are allowed to take
such other work in general subjects of
education as they are prepared to
pursue advantageously.
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT sTATIOr4u
The agricultural experiment station
is a department of the college the
main purpose of which is the deter
mination of the scientific laws that
may be applied in the art of agricul-
ture. The station consists of the de.
partments Of agronomy, animal hus-
bandry, horticulture, chemistry, irri-
cation, poultry and entomology.
Each department makes special in
veStigations, while number of the
departments do cooperative work
covering broader field
The work of the station in several
of the departments has been notably
successful. The irrigation work has
received the highest concentrations
OF government officials, and has at
tracted the attention OF irrigation
students generally. A contract has
recently been made with the United
States department of agriculture for
cooperative work in irrigation for
which a special appropriation of 81, 400
will be received next year. For this
work fruit farm will be leased,
to be used in connection with the
equipment at the college. Co-opera-
tive work with the department OF
soils Is also in progress to determine
the extent to which alkali land may
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appeared in the local press. N
This station is the first to investiN
gate the possibilities of arid farming.
The last legislation made an appro-
priation for the maintenance of six
small farms in different parts of the
state for this work.
1t is impossible to estimate the
financial value of the work of the
station to the farmers of the state.
Computations have been made, how
ever, which indicate that, were the
directions given in the station bulle-
tins generally followed there would
be an annual gain to the state of
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Great interest is being taken
throughout the United States in
farmers Institutes. TO assist i'm sys-
tematizing the work and making it
more effective, the United States de-
partment of agriculture recently APP
pointed farmers institute specialist.
The object is to give farmers who can
not attend agricultural colleges the
results of the experience and invcsti-
cations of successful farmers and
scientific men.
Since the establishment of farmers
Institutes in Utah there has been q.
general growth among the people I'M
, the interest taken in the work.
( While it has has not been practicable
, to hold as many institutes as desired,
a great deal of good has been accom-
piishcd. Institutes have been held
in forty-one different cities in the
state, the attendance ranging from a
few in the smaller places to upwards
OF 900. The general attendance has
been from $50 TO 300. Among the sub
Jects treated are the following: Arid
farming, beet culture, soil formation,
planting and care of orchards, shade
trees, the farmers garden, bacteria,
cooling moth, grasshoppers, poultry
, Keeping, selecting and feeding dairy
cows proper care and handling of
milk, use of water good roads, dr"''-
age, care of farm machinery, women
. ana the home, housekeeping and
! home making, home decoration, and
e Tie value of farmers organizations.
GOVERNMENT.