Deseret farmer. [volume], May 08, 1909, Page 5, Image 5

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I Saturday, may 8, 1909. THE DBSERBT FARMER 5 M
! The W. M. Roylance Co. j I
HEADQUARTERS, PROVO, UTAH I
I OLDEST ESTABLISHED I
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I Utah's largest handlers Fruits, Produce, Alfalfa Seed, Eggs, Hay,
j Grain, Etc. Always in the market to buy or sell car load lots or I . I
I less, or handle on commission, 1
The New Horticultural Bill makes it a crime to sell or offer for I
; sale, wormy or diseased fruits; you can avoid this by using a "Bean I
: Pump" to spray with and "Rex Sulpher and Lime Solution" for early I
spring, and "Swifts Arsenate of Lead" for the Codling Moth and oth- I
I er insects later on. We are State Agents for all three and will make ; I
you close prices as we buy in car load lots, and want your trade. I I
Write, telphone or see us. REMEMBER TOO. We will buy or handle all the Fruits and pro- w H
duce you raise, if first-class. 1 H
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' ficriptive articles there arc "An Ad-
l enturc in the Wilderness' illustrat-
1 ed by Ira F. Brim; "Phenomena in
Old Mexico," illustrated by Charles
E. McClcllan of Juarez. Joseph F.
Smith, Jr., assistant Church Histor
ian, contributes a valuable and inter
esting historical and statistical article
on "The Growth of the Church."
President Joseph F. Smith under the
heading "Search and He Shall Find"
treats of reading matter and study in
the home. The prohibition speech of
Uyrum M. Smith at the recent Con
ference unfortunately is also found
in the Editors Table. From the ERA
j it would appear that the home auth-
I ors have recently been turning out
much yalual literature, from the
R fac,t that there are five reviews of
I new books by home authors.
fi Under "Mutual Work," Elder Guy
1 A. Wilson instructon of the Third
1 Ward Junior Class, writes on "The
Boy This Summer." In an article
I on the trip of President Smith to
jj Hawaii, there arc two illustrations
of the party. "Herbert Melbourne
is continued, and all together tlu
magazine this month contains twenty
illustrations.
FUNCTION OF AN EXPERIMENT
STATION.
Rcccntfy in conversation v-Mlffa:
g ntlcmau of considerable influence
;md experience in agricultural mat
ters the question of the duties or
function of a State Experiment Sta
tion arose. This gentleman contend
cd that the main duty of the station
was to analyze soils and give out in
formation as to the kinds of crops
most suitable for those soils. The gen
t'eman seemed very much surprised
when we told him that in our judg
ment even if for the sake of argu
ment, the station was capable of do
ing such work, this was a very small
part of the work of an Agricultural
Station. The chief and primary ob
ject of an experiment station is to
discover new truths truths that will
be of rcail value to the agriculturist,
based on thoroughly scientific investi
gations and capable of practical ap
plication by the farmers themselves.
The Station can not properly un
dertake an analysis of soils for ev
ery tax payer in the State. Such work
would involve the use of a small ar
my of men and an annual oullcy of
thousands of dollars. Besides this
the data obtained would be of litt'c
:oal practical value since an analysis
mpriifj6nc' iSM3not,jm&h of a cri
terion as to. its productivity.
y'hc Experiment Station in Utah
has been of real service to the people
of this State. In its investigations
i garding the value and use of irri
gation water, in its arid farming work,
in its work with insect pests, (es
pecially the codling moth and the
white fly) in its poultry investiga
tions, and in its feeding experiments
with Utah fodders the station has
discovered many new truths tlwt arc
iti use by Utah farmers today. Not
withstanding the many changes in the
personnel of the station staff, the fact
that many of the experimenters have
been men trained and educated in the
east and unfamiliar with western con
ditions, and the incompetency and
lack of the proper investigational
spirit displayed of a few yet the re
sults as a whole, stand out as a com
plete vindication of the wisdom of
Tounding and maintaining Agricult
ural Experiment Stations.
DESERET FARMER NOW OFFI- H
CIAL ORGAN OF EXTEN-
SION WORK. H
At a meeting of the Board of Trus-
oos -jof . tlip State AgricuItuaIeo B
lege last week "The Dcsc re t' , Farmer" H
was made the official organ of the H
Extension Department of the College. H
This means that official notices of H
schools and institutes will appear in H
the paper and that regular bulletins H
from members of the Extension H
Staff will be published in these col- H
umns. The Dcscrct Farmer is the H
only paper published in Utah, devot- H
cd to Agriculture and Horticulture, H
and the fact that it is now the official H
organ of the Extension Department H
makes the responsibility of making H
this a reliable and safe guide for the H
husbandmen of . Utah even greater H
than in the past. H
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Produce all the food required for H
the men and animals on the farm. H
Increase the farm stock to the x- H
tent of utilizing all the waste pro- H
ducts and idPe lands of the farm. H
.INFAS".! 'SrUOKl & SONS ""SS. I
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