The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-19
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During the past few years the United
States government has devoted consid-
cradle money TO the cause of agriculture
and at the same time the agricultural
colleges scattered over the country have
been making great progress. The Her
aid is satisfied that the work being
done by the school at Logan i'm this
state is Of the greatest possible benefit
and that the money spent for its main
tenance could not be invested for bet
Ter purpose. Canada has also been pay
ing attention to scientific farming and
the consul reports furnish the follow
ing information concerning the Ontario
Agricultural college and experiment
farm at Guelph and its usefulness in
promoting agriculture:
During 1908, 1925 students received in
struction in the various departments
of the college. Besides Canadians, stu
dents attended from eighteen foreign
countries, the United States being rep
resented by twenty-five students. The
staff Of instructors in the agricultural
college proper consists of thirty-five
teachers, and there are nire teachers in
the Macdonald institute, where girls are
taught home economies. physiology and
home nursing, domestic science and do
mestic art.
One of the features of the practical
work of the institution is the farmers
excursions to the college and farm dur
ing June. These are arranged system
atically day after day, so that every
farmer and his family i'm the province
can spend day at the farm and see
the experimental process at first hand.
The railroads give cheap rates for these
excursions. and many thousands an
nually avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity. The practical value to the
farmer can not be Overestimated. for
the information that he gains by sight
and what he hears by the lectures in
sight of the experimental plot during
the day are of great benefit to him.
This feature is the popular side of the
Institution. and not only aids the farm
er i'm getting new ideas, but affords
the boys and girls a day of observation
and many later become students of the
institution who for the first time see
a model farm and its experimental
work. Ontario being a dairy country,
the model farm lays special stress on
the experimental value of the dairy.
which has proved a help to that in
dustry in Ontario.
Competition is keen in an walks of
life and under normal conditions the
young man OF young woman who is best
prepared at school for the battle of life
viii win over the less informed. we
have manual training i'm the public
schools for the benefit Of the future
mechanics and the system viii doubt
less be perfected as the years ron by.
Heretofore il has not been considered
necessary to educate a boy who was
doomed to labor with his hands. That
idea has passed away. 1t is so with the
farmer. In days gone by the tiler of
the soil knew nothing except TO follow
the pillow and perform other duties on
the farm exactly as his father did Now
We have young men and women turned
out each year from such institutions as
the Utah Agricultural college with a
technical knowledge Of the soils and
everything pertaining TO farming along
scientific lines. The 'uplift" of the
farmer is coming through the schools.