Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-18

wv YHAT city brec man IS there
NE/ but has n snenking desire to
wv Vlcate the desk for the life
of the husbandman-a life fed
by the bounty of earth and sweetened
by the airs Of heaven" as Douglas Jer-
rold put 1t? Agricola, the husbandman
of those old scnool days. seems more
fascinating noun now than Wien we
first wrestled with him those many
years agone. In those days some of us
boys thought more of the sea than the
Iand
'The sea Is his and he made it," Very
true. gays the modern farmer. and may
1t please him we'll and those who follow
the fishing ana the traffic over the Wild
waves; but that smaller portion OF the
globe. the land. so prolific now that the
great seas are kept busy bearing its
Wealth of ljfe-G giving increment is where
the real health and gold lie.
-7trhe husbandman has been and al
ways will be the backbone of the coun-
try. and In order that the vertebrae
may be kept rigid, and at the same
Time supple TO carry the load. a number
OF states in the Union have Instituted
university courses in farming which
each year turn out an army of young
men prepared TO attack the soil on SCI
entiic lines which. they have demon
stratcd TO their satisfaction, lead to af-
iiuence
While the young men are wrestling
with the chemistry OF the soil the eth
les OF dry Farming and the basic prin-
ciples OF Irrigation. things veterinary.
the study of botany, subsoils and prun-
ing, fertilization and termination, dis
eases that blast fruit. cereals, live stock
and poultry their future helpmeets are
not being neglected. II the young men
are becoming proficient In welding hot
IRON with. q sledge. the girls are none
the less backward. The embryo farm
er. perchance. Is pointing a pick: the
future housewife Is wrestling scicntifl-
cAlly with the chemistry OF cooking
While the bellows purr at tho forge
the dainty coed in another building is
acquiring practical knowledge of mil
linery. dressmaking. the preservation of
fruits and vegetables, the care of poul-
Try and the cooking OF the same: in
prlef, all the arts and crafts that go to
mako up the successful housewife OF
this strenuous twentieth century OF ad-
vancement
GOOD START IN LIFE.
Given the necessary implements, the
boy and girl graduate from the average
agricultural college Is equipped to start
out as u pioneer and make the desert
blossom as tho roSe-to use a somewhat
overworked phrase,
Under wise administration, Utah
E=oro ubundantly favored perhaps,
In this connection than any other state
The Agricultural college at Logan,
Cache county for years has been In the
foremost rank. Today IL has few peer.
ON this continent. 80 much so that
Students from contiguous states and
across the ocean from the orient are
enrolled on the college roster
TO the dcSk-crslmped Individual {
visit to the Agricultural college at Lo.
gan Is verItable revelation. Last wecl
tired. 1aded pessimist invaded Cache
county A stranger In strange land
he was greeted with various changes OF
the query delivered in a tone OF con.
scious pride. Have you visited tn,
Agricultural college,"
In self defense at last he girded III
his mantle and climbed the hill bohinS
the temple. In q few weeks them ~