The Citizen

splendid crops having been gathered this year.

The parade grounds and certain cottages for College employees complete the College plant, which altogether embraces 116 acres.

Consider the fact that each and every building has the most up-to-date equipment, and the institution in all its extent is before you. Does it not impress you that this is an institution worthy the pride of any people, of any state?

SCOPE OF WORK.

If then the institution has the physical and moral environment desirable, and the buildings and equipment necessary for the most effective work, what other phases are there that enter into a consideration of the value or need of the school? The courses offered and the educational worth of the instruction, of course.

The bill providing for the land-grant institutions sets forth that the colleges are instituted "for the purpose of promoting the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life," especial emphasis being placed on the necessity of instruction in agriculture and mechanic arts and related subjects. Under the direction of the Board of Trustees, and in thorough accord with the evident intent of the bill which created it, the Agricultural College offers instructive work logically divided into six schools: Agriculture, Domestic Science and Arts, Engineering and Mechanical Arts, Commerce, General Science, and Music.

All the work throughout the College is arranged in strict accordance with both the national and State laws under which the institution is working, and is in line with the spirit and policy of the best agricultural colleges of the country.

NEEDS OF THE STATE.

Does the State of Utah need broadly educated and scientific farmers? Then the Agricultural College is a necessity.

Does the State have need of young women who know how to make a home along the most approved scientific lines—girls who know how to cook, and what to cook, girls who know how to sew, girls who know how to be practical in their home life? Then indeed has the State need of the Agricultural College.

Does the State need competent craftsmen in carpentry, at the forge, in factory and machine shop! Has Utah need of first class mechanics, surveyors, and irrigation engineers? Then most certainly is the Agricultural College fulfilling the design of its founders and meeting the situation most creditably.

Do we need men of business training, men who know how to keep systematic hold of their own affairs, and men who can systematize business for others as well? Then is the Agricultural College meeting the need.

If the State needs men and women with scientific knowledge along the special lines offered by the Agricultural College, men and women who also possess the broadened mind that comes with a comprehensive knowledge of language and literature, incidental instruction offered in the various courses, then the Agricultural College is meeting the need as no other institution can—providing the work is given effectively.

EFFECTIVENESS OF WORK.

The effectiveness of any school is best told in the success of its students and graduates, its recognized standing among other schools, in the decision of competent judges where work done has come into competition with that of other schools, in the scholarly attainment of its faculty, and in the general spirit of the student body. The high position in educational, business, governmental and industrial life now held by graduates and students of the institution speak volumes for its effectiveness. A list of graduates with positions held will compare more than favorably with a list from any western institution.

SUCCESS OF GRADUATES AND STUDENTS.

More than 100 students have graduated with degrees and 110 have been given certificates from the various high school courses. If space permitted, it would be interesting to print a complete list of Agricultural College graduates, giving their present occupations and salaries. A few representative alumni selected at random will suffice to show how universally successful A. C. graduates have been. The following named persons have received practically no training other than that given by their alma mater. They are receiving salaries ranging from $1200 to $2400.

W. W. McLaughlin, '96. Professor of Irrigation and Drainage A. C. U., Logan.

Amos N. Merrill, '96. Professor of Agriculture, Brigham Young T. H. Humphreys, '97, Engineer U. S. Reclamation Service, Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Chas. A. Jensen, '97. Soil Expert U. S. Bureau of Soils, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

John S. Baker, '99, Professor of Civil Engineering Agricultural College of Montana, and Irrigation Engineer Montana Experiment Station, Bozeman.

W. D. Beers, '99. Assistant District Engineer U. S. Reclamation Service, Salt Lake City.

Christian Hogensen, '99. Soil Expert U. S. Bureau of Soils, Washington, D. C.

A. P. Stover, '99, In Charge of Irrigation Investigations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Portland, Oregon.

Stanley Crawford, '00, Manager and owner of a large poultry farm, Manti, Utah.

B. P. Fleming, '00. Irrigation Engineer Wyoming Experiment Station, Cheyenne.

Wm. Nelson, '00, Soil Expert U. S. Bureau of Soils, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

C. B. Smith, '01, Engineer U. S. Reclamation Service, Boise, Idaho.

E. P. Pulley, '02, Instructor in Mechanical Engineering, A. C. U., Logan.

Lydia Holmgren, '03, Professor of Domestic Science, L. D. S. U., Salt Lake City.

C. F. Brown, '03. In Charge of Irrigation and Drainage Investigations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Salt Lake City.

W. M. Jardine, '04. Professor of Agronomy and Agronomist Utah Experiment Station, Logan.

W. G. Swendsen, '04. Engineer Telluride Power Co., Provo.

J. E. Taylor, '05, Secretary State Board of Horticulture, Salt Lake City.

J. H. Smith, '05. Engineer Oregon Central Railroad, Union, Oregon.

Besides the above named graduates, many others are engaged in positions equally lucrative in different phases of agriculture, chemistry, commerce, and domestic science. A great number, also, have received advanced degrees from Eastern and Western colleges and universities, where, without exception, credits and advanced standing have been given students for their work at the A. C. of U.

Aside from the degree graduates, students who have been graduated from the certificate courses have always been in demand as special teachers in high schools, mechanics in various trades, clerks in commercial and banking establishments, and many are prominent farmers and stock raisers in Utah and adjoining states.

STANDARD OF COLLEGE

The high standing of the College among other schools is attested in the fact that the work required for certificates and degrees exceeds that required by many other schools of recognized standard, and in the fact that full credit for work done here is given by the great eastern and western universities, such as Harvard, Cornell, Chicago, Stanford.

COST PER STUDENT

According to the report of the U.S. Commissioner of Education the average cost per student for the colleges and universities throughout the country is $325.00

In this connection the following statistics taken from the report of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Agricultural College of Utah will be of interest.

The average total cost per student per year, from the time the College first opened in 1888 to date, for buildings, equipment, and maintenance, is $140.58

The average total cost to THE STATE per student per year from 1890 to date, for buildings, equipment, and maintenance, is for maintenance (and equipment only $43.66.

Segregating the cost of students of college grade) and of high school grade, it will be found that for the year just closed, the total cost per student of collegiate grade was $206.85.

ATTENDANCE.

During the year 1904-1905, there were 716 students in the Agricultural College, exclusive of summer school students, representing 15 states: Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

The students from Utah represent the following counties: Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Emery, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan, Rich, Salt Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Uinta, Utah, Wasatch, Washington, Wayne, and Weber.

The attendance by courses was as follows: Agriculture, 115; Domestic Science and Arts, 131; Commerce, 142; Engineering and Mechanical Arts, 168; General Science, 21; Specials, 8; College Preparatory, 91; Sub-Preparatory, 40.

There were 145 students of college grade.

FACULTY.

The faculty of the College and members of the Experiment Station staff number about sixty, including professors, instructors, and assistants. They have received their training in the best colleges and universities of America and Europe, and are pre-eminently qualified for the work of their respective departments.

On the arid farms last year, "Four Fold, or Golden Coin," "Rothouse and Martin Amber wheat ran as high as 27 bushels to the acre. Other wheats, still used by Utah farmers, fell, where grown under exactly the same conditions, to 15 bushels and lower.

Supposing wheat to be worth seventy-five cents per bushel ten bushels are worth $7.50. $7.50 more to the acre by using the right kind of wheat. Is it worth while?

Under the direction of the College depth of plowing tests were made last year Plots side by side in the prosecution of this work were plowed various depths. The results show a difference of 12 and 13 bushels to the acre between very shallow and the eight and nine inch plowing, and between the latter and the deep sub-soiled plats there is a difference in favor of the subsoiled of from two to five bushels. It would be well for the farmer to note such facts as these.

Experiments on wheat ground in Tooele County in 1905 with a view of demonstrating the value of spring harrowing showed a yield of from five to six bushels more to the acre on plats that had been spring harrowed only over those that had been harrowed and rolled. The results from other farms corroborated these results At this rate the roller costs the farmer practically $3.75 for every acre rolled.

Experiments at the College indicate that "Brome Grass stands second only to alfalfa in nutritive value and drouth resistant. It gives promise of converting into green pastures, areas heretofore regarded as absolutely valueless. All it needs is a little intelligent handling to give it a good start and after that it requires no attention.

The value to Utah each year of the experiments on alfalfa alone at the College exceeds the entire state appropriations for the support of the institution.

The product of the poultry industry of Kansas for 1905 was greater than the mineral output of Colorado in the same year.

Poultry raising required little capital and is work suited to women and children. Let a daughter take a winter course in poultry raising at the Agricultural College and get a start in a healthful paying occupation.

During this time of agitation over pure foods such appetizing and wholesome fruit preparations as are taught at the Agricultural College would find ready sale at good prices.

In many homes in Utah the burden of the summer sewing has been taken from the tired mother and well carried by the daughter who took a course in Domestic Arts last year at the Agricultural College.

If a young woman has the necessary taste and ability and will properly prepare herself for the work by a course at the Agricultural College, she will have a good position awaiting her when she is graduated.

This year's graduates of the Agricultural College who desired to teach Domestic Science and Arts had positions offered them before commencement, one young woman having her choice between three good places.

Board and lodging in Logan may be obtained by students at from $2.50 to $3.50, an extraordinarily low rate compared with that of the city and most college towns.

At the St. Louis Exposition, the exhibit of the Agricultural College secured the GRAND PRIZE over all competitive schools, these numbering more than 40. The collaboration of work in Mechanic Arts was awarded a gold medal, the highest.

With but two or three exceptions every one of the seventy odd creameries in the State of Utah is in charge of a student or graduate from the Dairy department at the Agricultural College. That's quite a record.

Logan has the advantage of more water than any city or town in the state. The city possesses a network of great canals and its gutters and ditches are ever filled with running water. The Agricultural College is particularly fortunate in having abundance at any season of the year.

At the Portland Exposition last year the collective exhibit of the Agricultural College was given the highest award—gold medal—this in competition with all schools west of Denver. Department Exhibits were awarded two gold medals and various silver medals.