Encampment News Vol. 4, No. 1-3;

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Volume 4
Encampment News
Published Daily During the  Annual Farmers' Encampment
Tuesday Morning,   July 20, 1926.
Number 1.
HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR TENTS       ENCAMPMENT REGISTRATION
IN FARMERS' CITY ON CAMPUS        REACHES NEW HIGH TOTAL
Elderly Men* and Women, and Small Children to Be
Located in Building.
Preparatory to the 1926 U. A. C. Farmer's
Encampment a city of tents—one hundred and sixty-
four in number—was erected during the past week
just east of the quadrangle.
On their arrival, all who wished the use of a tent
readily obtained it by the payment down of one
dollar.
The added convenience of a straw tick for sleeping purposes was also had with every deposit of one
dollar; in this case, however, seventy-five cents of
that dollar will be refunded when the tick is returned,
twenty-five cents being withheld to cover laundering
expenses.
(It scarcely needs mentioning that the encampment officers have spared no effort in their attempts
toward reducing camping expenses to the least possible minimum—which is cost).
The authorities especially wish to caution all tent
inhabitants in their use of fire. The force of this
warning cannot more fully be appreciated than when
we realize that one small fire, if left to scatter itself,
might cause the immediate and complete destruction
of this splendid stand of tents.
Rooms for elderly men and women and small
children are obtainable, if desired, in the Live Stock
building. The third floor is reserved for women and
the second floor for men.
First Farm Bureau Leadership
School Opens Today
Incorporated in the annual Farmers' Eneampmeht,
is the first Farm Bureau Leadership School ever conducted in Utah—one of the first ever in the far west.
The leadership school phase of the Encampment, sponsored by the Utah State Farm Bureau, will cover both
today "and tomorrow. The" program will cover four
phases of agriculture and rural life: economic, legislative, educational and social.
Frank Evans, general marketing counsel for the
American Farm Bureau federation, will open the leadership school with a discussion of the recent report on
agriculture by the National Industrial Conference
board. Director William Peterson, W. P. Thomas, and
W. W. Owens are also on the program for the leadership school today.
The second day, tomorrow, will be devoted to the
consideration of legislative and educational phases. Mr.
Evans will speak on the general national attitude toward farm legislation, and the relation of politics to
legislation. Others on the program for tomorrow are:
P. V. Cardon, Mrs. Rena B. Maycock, President Sam H.
Thompson of the American Farm Bureau federation,
Dr. B. L. Richards, and A. L. Christensen.
Proposals for a definite program for the future in
Utah, will conclude the leadership school.
Sixth  Annual   Farm   Fete   Has   Extended
And State-Wide Interest.
Program
Four hundred fifty had registered for the Sixth
Annual Farmers' Encampment last night at four
o'clock—a number which far exceeds that of a similar
period of any previous encampment at the time the
count was taken, the caravan which was being
filmed as it gathered from all parts of central and
southern Utah, had not arrived and all tents except
five had been either occupied or reserved. Space for
camps was yet plentiful and it was hoped that a
majority of those yet to arrive would bring their own
tents.
This is the sixth year that the farm fete has
been conducted by the Extension Service and each
year it has grown in magnitude. With the increase
in enrollment, an unusual list of speakers and
demonstrators, special exhibits, numerous group
games, horseshoe pitching conducted by the State
Farm Bureau Federation, baseball, movies, community recreation, and with the special feature of
haying the entire event filmed by the United States
department of agriculture for nation-wide distribution, the Extension Service is confident* that the
Encampment this year will far surpass any of its
predecessors.
The plan of the Encampment is to feature one
problem each year. This year poultry problems will
be featured. They will be given special attention
and a series of poultry meetings have been arranged
including' a session of the Utah State Poultry Producers' Association.
The entertainment side of the Encampment is also
oi exceptional quality. Evening dances, band concerts and movies for both children and adults, are
numbered and the usual popular games will be played
nightly on the College quadrangle.
President's Message
The Utah Agricultural college on the occasion of
the Annual Encampment in co-ordination with the
National Summer School, has the great pleasure of
welcoming as guests the Farm Bureau leaders from
Demonstrators, and farm leaders in general. We are
throughout Utah, the County Agents and Jlome
convinced that such a conference as the one planned
this week will be of inestimable value.
The farm problem is the most acute and the most
imnortant problem now confronting America. It is
not even hoped that this Encampment can solve such
a problem for Utah, but it. can bring all the agencies
concerned into.open and frank council on the task.
Such is the American method. Out of all discussion
here and throughout the countrv. a solution will
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The Evening Play Hour Is Set For Six Tonight So That a Moving Picture May Be Made of It