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THE
One Hundred Forty-four
The Agricultural College at Logan has given
an impetus to scientific agriculture that is
distinctly observable all through the Central
Rocky Mountain District.
In this newly built residence district, I saw
that fully one-half of the houses were equipped
with sleeping-porches, and that sleeping out of
doors was the rule and not the exception. And
do you know what this means? It means that
you increase your efficiency twenty-five per
cent, or more.
The average temperature in the Winter is
around fifty degrees, and seldom falls much
below the freezing-point. In Summer the
temperature is seldom above seventy-five in
the middle of the day. There is not another
city in the United States where the snow-
capped mountains are always in sight, and
where you can go mountain-climbing, see
Alpine scenery, revel in the snow, and in an
hour by trolley-car reach the sea and enjoy a
salt-water plunge.
Agriculture Paramount
ALT LAKE CITY has a population of
a hundred thousand people, and is
rapidly growing. Fifteen years ago there were
marks, more or less, of the boom town, but
now the pioneer aspect has entirely dis-
appeared so an
There are twenty-six graded schools, all built
of brick or stone, mostly two stories, with wide
and extending playgrounds. And among those
recently built, there are also school-gardens
and supervised playgrounds attached.
Salt Lake can give the world lessons in peda-
gogy. Well has it been said that the finest crop
here is the children. The Kindergarten has
always been a feature.
The business of the first Mormon settlers was
agriculture, and the traditions still survive,
for Salt Lake has never lost touch with the
men who sow and reap, and all those who go
forth to their labors until the evening.
Here labor is respectable. Here old age is
reverenced. Here children are welcomed as
gifts of God. The injunction, “Honor thy
father and thy mother,” is accepted literally;
also, the same applies to the words,“ Suffer
little children to come unto me and forbid
them not, for of such is the Kingdom of
Heaven.”
Among the many businessmen I met in
Salt Lake City, scarcely one of them but is
interested directly in farming.
February
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A Prosperous People
FTJHE Mormons have made money faster
&V than any other people have ever made
money in history. From the year Eighteen
Hundred Fifty to the year Eighteen Hundred
Eighty, the increase in wealth was at the rate
of eleven hundred dollars per person, including
women and children.
This is a record unequaled by any other people
wherever statistics have been kept.
And the money was made out of agriculture.
Brigham Young said to his people: “ If you
mine, some of you will get rich. But most of
you will die poor. If you feed the miners, all of
you will get rich.”
The golden spike, joining the Union Pacific
and the Central Pacific Railroads, was driven
in Eighteen Hundred Sixty-nine. The Mor-
mons took a big and important part in build-
ing this railroad. Many of them were engineers,
foremen and contractors, but their principal
work was to feed the men who built the rail-
road so so
Three hundred years before Christ, Aristotle
said, “ The land that will produce beautiful
flowers, luscious fruits and nourishing vege-
tables is bound to produce a happy, intelligent
and prosperous people.”
And Thomas Jefferson said, “ They who till
the soil are the chosen people of God.”
Then comes Alfred Russel Wallace and avers
that the first factor in the education of man
I was his domestication of animals. As man
domesticated animals, so did he domesticate
himself. In educating the brute he achieved
his own education.
Beyond this, when he takes an active, hearty,
scientific interest in agriculture he is still
further evolved; for the animal and vegetable
kingdoms are complementary. parts of each
other so so
Man evolved from the savage into the nomadic
Stage. then into the agricultural, and next
comes the commercial stage.
The nomad does not plow and sow and reap,
because he moves with his flocks and herds.
([ When he begins to till the soil, he remains
in one place and has to become a partner of
Nature. For the first time then he owns a
home. There is no such thing as civilization
when men forsake the soil. When men crowd
into the cities and desert the land, degenera-
tion and dissolution are hammering at the
gates su so-