Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-09
COLLEGE DISPLAY
one OF RESULTS
49,
Logan Institution Furnishes an
Interesting Exhibit at
State Fair.
FARMERS Fl ARE TOLD HOW
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Men Who Till the Soil May Learn by
Asking Questions from
Youthful Students.

5RemarRaDle5 groWln- IN the past twC
wears is what is shown by the A.gri-
cultural college exhibit. Evolution al
go in the articles that are proving In
the continued tests to be most adapted
for dry farm crops, is clearly APPARENT.
Only a few years ago Kofod wheat
was advanced as the best variety to
plant. This year Turkey Red is taking
its place, and the men of the college
on hand at the dry farm exhibit are
telling the farmers that this Is the
only kind worth while A table of
Yields and a table of milling percent
ages, backs up the statements of the
college men. The Turkey Red is shown
as 50 bushels for an average yield, the
ordinary Turkey wheat at 34.33 bushels,
the Kofod at SO bushels, and the
Gold Coin, once a great favorite, at
the bottom of the list with 27.66 BUSH
els. To show that humor even may in
wade SO serious subject as bearded
grain, the Alaska wheat with it's yield
pers) is shown, and it is labeled a
fakir and a joker.
Not only in cereal. but in the sugar
beet culture also is the growth Of bet
ter products noted. From beet Yield
ing 16 per cent sugar, the college ex-
periments have now produced one that
Is exhibited, producing % per cent SUI
gar, and more than four pounds of seed
to the mother beet Is the record of the
latest development towards seed
raising product.
QUEER LOT OF BUGS.
An interesting sidelight of field cul-
ture Is furnished by tho bugs that
have been collected from the fields.
Queer tricks are some of those shown
by weaponless bugs to ape tho looks
and manners of those able to protect
themselves. For almost every singing
insect the college authorities have
found bugs, looking like them In color
and shape, but belonging to vastly DIFF
ferent families. Then there is the bug
with two big hideous eyes in the top of
Its head, ack-o'lantern style, which on
close inspection prove to be fake eyes,
two real ones being in another part of
his structure. All insects which harm
crops are shown In all stages of their
life history, and the college staff is
now at work 1t explained, in devising
ways and means to rid the fields of
these pests. What success may be
hoped for is illustrated by the apples
which have been almost totally freed
from worms by study OF the habits of
the ver1nin, and application OF Grad
icating poison at the right time and
place.
For the people who pay taxes, OPP
portunity Is offered to see where their
money goes. so much of 1t as is appro-
priated for experiment farms. From
the Lehi farm and the st. George farm
samples of many products are shown.
And the value Is not In the lucious
grape or inviting peach, but In the
manner In which 1t was found the tree
would grow, and in the manner the
tree bearing that particular variety
thrived in that particular soil and ell
mate while dozens of other varieties
dwintlled away in death, or survived In
sickly invalidtsm.
TELLING THE FARMERS HOW.
Talking for their exhibits, the college
men could tell practical farmers who
crowded around, as often what their
farms could be expected to fall In pro-
ducing, as what they would succeed IN
The samples were designed and ex-
plained as the work in one spot by the
to prove that others, II try
ing individually would absorb years In
finding out, and great wealth.
In the livestock department the col
lege herd showed what can be accom-
in making beef calves by breed
ing with only the best of beef animals,
however commonplace the cows. Husky
calves, partially grown and In prime
condition told each its lesson that the
farmer could as well get the money
tor 500 pounds of veal as for 400 at
given uge. Percheron mares, the first
in Utah, offered the chance for
animals, and a pair of
husky colts showed the increase of the
team If mares while steadily engaged
in work enough to pay for their keep.
The work of the college that is car
ried on indoors received as much
space as that pertaining to the barn
and the fields. There We're andirons
for the fire place, turned out in the
metal workshops, desks and chairs from
tho Woodworking deparenient, all
styles of fancy work and dress design
Ing from the woanen's department un-
der Mrs. r. r. Cook, and hemp rope
from Utah grown hemp, to declare that
here Is new industry in the need OF
development, college banners and RIB
bons prominently placed to trim the