The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-02
FARMERS GET TOGETHER
Organize an Institute and Elect Of
ficers to Serve During
First Year.

Mt Pleasant Feb. 2S.-The first district
or county Farmers Institute in the state
OF Utah was organized at a well attended
meeting of farmers in this city last even
ing The institution starts Ire under
most suspicious circumstances ana DldS
fair to be an entire success The OFFICERS
regularly elected 10 serve during the
first year of its existence are as follows;
President, James +. Jensen Of. OF MT IL
Pleasant; secretary, i. G. Rasmussen OF
Mt Pleasant; treasurer, Hyrum DE FRIES
of Fairview; first vice president, H. L.
Terry of Fairyiew. -
The meeting was attended by over 100
people. among whom were delegates from
Fairview, M0rOni, and Spring CITY, Be
sides the regular order NUMBER OF Inu-
l-sical selections were rendered. ProIeS-
soT Joseph Jensen, DR.. Yoder ana Pro-
lessor Clark of the Logan Agricultural
COLLEGE were present at the meeting ana
I took part in il. These three gentlemen
came into the county Monday at noon
and accompanied by President Jensen
of the new organization. held meeting
at Moroni that same afternoon, another
at Spring City in the evening, one at
1 Fairview on Tuesday IN the AFTERNOON
and wound up here last evening. Good
meetings were held at all of those towns
and in each ane a local Farmers IN
! stftute subordinate to the county orgam-
cation in this city, Will De lnsItuteo- one '5
over this end of the county are taxing
| hold of the work with will and expect
/ to make the work very beneficial
/ The meeting last evening was addressed
nv Professor Jensen on Organization,
which was claimed to be OF prime I'M
pcrtance among farmers. Good market
ing is a direct result OF organllatioh'
1 when farmers can unite, first IN grow
/ inc rood crops of a like product and
/ then second. placing it on the market III
such quantities as 10 command mig
/ nrice Under the old system this couid
/ not be done as each man sold his pro-
/ al md va obliged
/ what he could get for it.. There Is no
| danger Of flooding the market II these
/ goods are known in advance as Delhs
/ first class, another feature gained through
/ organization
FoIjowing the professor. DR.. Yoder
/ smoke on Farming as a Business. he
| placed by comparison, the lie OF the
farmer as above all others, the tradesmaIl'
/ mechanic professional man, or what not,
and cited many comparisons 20 Dear OUT
1 this statement. He made strong pled
/ for better roads, saying that FARMER
| could in no way invest money WIN pet
/ ter results than by using 1t TO Improve
/ roads In talking of irrigation ne sane
] that the records would bear out tHt
I statement that enough precipitation lei
! here to make dry farming a possibility
In the use Of irrigation water tme mere We We
| much TO learn. Land, he said, was rap
/ idlv wearing out and more fertliizauo1
ss-The livestock Industry was Profes-
sor CIark's theme ana ne ha ,te1 -
veil ne branched off in the beginning &c
urge that women should interest them-
selves in farming, either as Iai , MI =.
| wives OF as farmers themselves: lhSS
r,ade GOOD farmers and it was a high call
ing re impressed his hearers with tht
idea that they must read. study ana thlhh
If they were to become successIul IaIIi i
ers because men Of that type Wouiu VII
IN tba end Raising stock on the farm, II
| done I'm the right way, meant money
coming in all the time. Different klnos
of stock should be raised The feed IRON
] a farm should always be fed on the faIIl
9s its selling price was almost doubled
in that way. Sheep and hog raising OF
the farm. in a small way, would assured
~ nav. Before closing the professor en-
IiChtened those present on many poih's Il
| response to questions