Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-13

Farmers hutC called attention 90
Institutes. the great possibilities in
production that De before
the American farmer hy holding up
| examples of results obtained and hy
| explaining how these results woro
reached Tn many instances they have
| brought tho men who have grown these
| special crops before farmers meetings
to explain the methods they pursued
| Tho Institutes are showing farmers
that their failure to secure abundant
! crops ON superior animals aud 90 make
! farming profitable business De- chiefly
l n themselves and science has come
| to bc regarded as thc arbter ln agri-
| cultural disputes as well as the court
/ of last resort Public opinion has
| completely changed within twenty
! years boz its attitude toward scientific
| institutions and scientific mon. Both
/ have como to he respected and their
/ advice and cooperation earnestly de-
/ sired. The institute has been largely
| responsible for this change no has
| taken scientific men before audiences
| OF practical farmers and has given both
/ the opportunity Of becoming acqualnt-
! ga and on intcrchanging views ON sub
/ iects upon which they are Interested
| The result is farmers have come TO see
/ that science is not the visionary and
! impractical element they had once
supposed and scientific men have also
! been brought to realize that practical
farmers have information OF the great
est value To those who are pursuing
Investigations along scientific lines.
The Institutes have brought the farm-
ing community 90 see the great advan-
tage that properly educated man has
over the one who has nothing except
I the traditions and experiences OF his
locality TO guide him. Through this
agency he has found that it pays TO
emerge from his little world and take
note OF what is going ON in the realm
Of others. each year he learns some-
thing that is new TO him, or he aban-
dons some cherished fallacies which
the light OF truth, uuconsCiously alb
sorhed IN him I'm contact with new
ideas and new inspirations, has dis
persed. Thus the supply OF working
knowledge IS Increased year by year
The farmers institute IS no longer an
experiment To is engaging the thought
~ the bminiest man of the age. It's
meetings are alive with fresh thought
and suggestion and every one that DIS
held is Co the state like an interest
bearing bond-Quiety. almost impor-
cepubly, but nevertheless surely bring
ing In wealth. not only by increasing
the number OF Intelligent thinkers, but
by concentrating thought upon those
subjects which inspire the thinker 20
adopt methods which develop wealth
making resources heretofore lying dor
mant-methOds which tend to conserve /
and utilize resources considered value I
less-wealth, not only taxable property,
conservation Of fertility and other nat I
ural resources. but such a wealth OF 1
character In the young men and young |
women Of the state as viii forever in !
sure the increase and perpetuity of /
such an income. It is performing a /
service that no other institution can I
possibly render. IL has proven itself /
worthy Of the support and co-opera- /
tion Of the scientific Investigator and .
experimenter on the one hand and Of I
the farming population on the other, /
while at the same time 1t Ia creating |
an interest among all other profession
al and business men that bids fair 90
place agriculture on permanent basis
the like OF which has never been known
In the history OF the world-H. A.
McKeen.
An Era With the exception OF the
OF Great mariners compass, OF
Portents. gunpowder, and perhaps
OF "a few minor discover I
les. mankind. until about the COM
mencement OF the last century, had
advanced In the application
OF the forces OF Nature since the
days Of Sennacherib, or even OF Che
ops, In whose era the tremendous pow !
er OF the lever was utilized TO a far I
greater extent than at the present time.
And what "a revolution has taken place |
IN this direction within almost the life
time OF the oldest OF the present gem
GRAFTON. Steamships now plough the
main In all directions almost entirely
taking the placeof those graceful fairies
Of the sea, the old East Indiaman and
the China clipper; railways travelling
at lightning speed day and night have
replaced the old numbering coach: |
motors are rapidly suporsediug horse
drawn vehicles; and perhaps even these
may be partly supplanted by the aero
plane And then the photograph, tho /
cInematograph and the photograph, :
an inventions Of interest; the telegraph |
and telephone, both now essential 10
civilizations that marvellous discovery,
wireless telegraphy so invaluable 90
ocean going steamers. and though
not yet altogether perfected that re-
markable iuvention-which might per
haps be called tho selenograp h--by
means OF which, provided sufficiently
effective batteries could be constructed, |
"a parent In England could see the inn
age Of his son in, say Now Zealand, !
upon . plaque In front OF him. at the
same time, hy the telephone, N such a
distance could be achieved. hearing his
actual voice. And then what advances
On surgery and medicine. and, IN the
department Of bacteriology. in The
knowledge of the causes OF disease:
with. by the discovery OF the X-rays,
HE increased facilities iu locating IN