The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-28

the packed theater is the ratio
Of the results attained by the
extension work of the Utah Col
lege of Agriculture Today thou
sands Of farmers of Utah are be
coming wealthy through the cultiva-
tion OF arid soil. reclaimed from the
desert. And this has been accom-
plished largely through the institute
and extension work of the Utah College
Of Agriculture.
A few years ago professors Of the
agricultural college almost tcarfully
pleaded with the people living in the
vicinity Of Nephi TO listen to their
message with reference to dry farming,
The farmers struggling TO make hv-
ing on the edge Of the great desert
laughed at the professors as book farm
ers. The farmers saw in the desert
trackless waste of land on which the
hardy sagebrnsh and the desert poppy
had desperate struggle for existence
But the "book farmers won. The
state established an experiment station
at Nepbl. -Four hundred thousand
bushels of wheat, grown where only
grains of sand grew before, from the
desert near Nephi, was the convinc-
ing argument of the victory of the
"bock farmers Also it was one Of
the causes for the progress from the
.ianitor in the hall to the throng at the
thcater
State Reaps Benefit.
Utah is rapidly becoming a state
made prosperous through scientific
agriculture. With modern scientific
methods Of hqsbandry, Utah offers a
treasure of gold for the farmer With
antiquated, old-fashioned farming Utah
is a quick road TO the poorhouse
But Utah supplies the education to
the willing farmer. TO the youth who
wishes TO make of farming profes
sion, the state offers a course in agri-
culture at its college OF agriculture
that will most certainly make of him
farmer with knowledge that Will en-
able him to wrcst fortune from the
desert soil. And Utah does more IT
takes to the farmer course in prac-
teal agriculture 1t gives him the
benefit of years of experience by farm
conducted in Utah for the past twenty
years experiment stations with a view
TO securing the very best agriculture!
information for the farmer
Some twenty years ago when the
agricultural college was first estab-
lished at Logan. an experiment. station
was also established that the seeds Of
grains and other products best adapted
for use in Utah might be sown and
studied and the information thus Sc
cured he disseminated TO the farmers
of the state
Farmers institutes were conducted
and for the conduct Of such Institutes
the territory appropriated $500 an
nually. This same appropriation con.
pnued after Utah became state. and
the institute work under this appro-
priation continued until four years ago
The appropriation WAS meager, yet
with ii the state aud the agricultural
college accomplished wonders One Of
the great steps of advancement was in
securing the attention and the conf |
dcpce of the farmers. For years the
conduct OF the institute work was an
uphill task. for II was hard for the
farmers TO realize that from this work |
there was TO be gained any practical
knowledge II was not until by actual
results the institute workers showed
the farmers that scientific farming
was the better way, that the farmers
were willing TO be convinced
Take College to Farms.
Four years ago the legislature in
creased the appropriation from s25oo TO
$4,000. The institute work was changed
Tor extension work and the taking OF
the agricultural college 10 the farms pro-
ceeded on much more extensive plan.
More thorough courses OF lectures were
gwen Various experiments in agricul-
ture were thoroughly explained new the
ories were discussed and recommends
tons were made.
All branches of husbandry were given
a share in the extension work. bry
farming Was discussed and cncoIira ecd
Animal husbandrY. horses. cattle sheer
swine and poultry were included in ifo
subjects of which the farmers were