TIIE SUNDAY OltEGOXIAJf, PORTLAND. J AXTTAttT 15, 19il.
CORVALLIS SHORT COURSE ATTRACTS BOTH RICH AND POOR
Oregon Agricultural College Attended by Man Who Would Lea rn How to Till Soil, as Well as by Capitalist Eager to Find Best Way to Beautify His Vast Estate.
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ORXOO.V AGRICULTURAL CXL-I-EGE.
Corralll. Jan. H. 8p-clJ-
FYom the John Day Vley.
ta Grant County. C. J. Schletrman.
formerly of Dayton. O-. who came Wnt
it jane in eearch of land for him
elf and a email colony of Ohio ma
vhlniata. haa regiatered for the Winter
aort courae at Oregon Atrrlcultural
Collate. Mr. Sohwteterman'a lnvptla-
iloaa la the Weet ended In the aelec
ttoa of an undeveloped tract of land
which bae been approved by a com
mlttee of five aent from hla Eaalern
colony to Inventlg-ate and report, and
plana are brine made to plant some
li.Ov treea thia Sprint and to cut Tap
the land Into tract to make homea fnr
48 famUiea. The Ohio Club, which the
proposed Oregon colony haa formed
la the Eut. now aerrea only apples In
varloua styles at ttWr social fneetlnga.
and one by one will Journey West to
take op their homes on the co-operative
community plan. It la planned that
each family shall own lta own land
nd personal property, but all will co
operate under a central management
in cuyinr and ulpoln- of their pro
duce, ine lessons wnicn the Aaricul
(oral College la teachlnc In lta short
rourse will be transmitted by Mr.
Bchwelterman to the other colonists
as they arrive In Oregon, and It la
pro cable that many of the colonists
wlU be In attendance at the collere
when the short courae convenes next
Winter.
Mr. Schwettertnao Is but one of up.
wexde of 120 who are taking the short
course work In the varloua departments
this month, and hla case Is perhaps not
viore Interesting than several others.
In the department of landscape arc hi -ectnre.
for example, where Professor
Hint Is busy Instructing the short
rourse men In their efforts to assist
Ime Nature by the agencies of art.
ran be found a man who feaa charge of
the entire landscape architecture of
one Of the greatest railroad systems
la the world; working at a beach not
far off Is a wealthy fruitgrower, who
la learning how to put has own Ideas
Into effect In beautifying the grounds
about his magnificent new home In
Rogue Itlver. Between them, perhaps,
la the dweller on a five-acre tract who
i is taaing the course as a aliie lssua.
but who will return to hla little home
to make It more beautiful as the re
uit or hla studies at the college.
Of Interest alao la the presence of
small colonlea of each of the more fa
moua fruitgrowing districts of Oregon.
aneir presence la made known occasion
ally by the brushes of friendly argu
mcnt when one section la "boosted'
above another for any particular merit
of climate, soil or freedom from Insect
Pta. Rogue River and Hood Klver
vie in numerical atrength with IS stu
aenu registered from each district.
Seven are registered from British Co
lumbla; aeven from the White Salmon
region and a number from each of the
other fruit valleys of Oregon. They
numoer among their representatives.
possessors of some of the finest bearing
orcnama and orchard tracta of the
state, and value of their combined hold
Ings would run Into many millions of
aonars.
no soon course enrollment marks an
Increase of 60 per cent over the high-
water mars: act last year and Its mean
Ing la of tremendous significance for
the students are men and women of
every type, age and position: thev
range from the girl in her teens, there
to study domestic science for applica
tion on the farm, to the septogenarlan
farmer who haa enrolled with the de
termination not to fall behind a month
la the knowledge of modern farming
methods, from the ranch laborer who
haa assiduously saved from bis dailv
atlpend of IMS that he might spend the
six weeks at Corvailla to land-owners
who count their wealth In millions, or
some, aa Dean Cordley said thla week.
ao not count it at an:
Little less varied than the students
themselves are the subjects to which
they are devoting their attention at
the college. In the department of horti
culture where fruitgrowing fa of para
mount interest, there are 107, or almost ,
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CO per cent of the students. In the ani
mal husbandry department. 10 are en
rolled; In agronomy, 21: In dairy hus
bandry. It; in domestlo science. 13;
In commerce. 10; and in the engineer
ing schools, 10. Over 76 courses sre
regularly acheduled to be given during
the six weeks' term, but beside these,
an innumerable number of special
conferences are being given by Instruc
tors to the knowledge-thirsty students.
For the short-course student haa needa
far different from the needa of the av
erage collegian. The student attending
a four-years course knows In general
what he deslrea to study and, under the
direction of hla Instructors, follows a
more or less straight path to the goal.
The short-course student, on the other
band, cornea to the college primed and
purposeful. Usually straight from his
work on the farm. In the machine shoo
the office or the home, he wandera not
t all, but seeks immediately the
courses where ho can find the answers
to his problems.
Classified from an educational point
of view, the abort course are almost
post-graduate. Rubbing shoulders In
the classrooms and in the demonstra
tion barna with the farm laborer
whose only degree has been wrested
from the workaday achool of practical
farming, are graduates of Harvard,
Yale. Cornell, Dartmouth, Williams,
Hobart. Minnesota, Wisconsin. Michi
gan. Illinois. Kansas, Iowa. Lake For
est. and the agricultural colleges of
Connecticut. North Dakota, Maryland
and Utah. In the domestlo- science de
partment and In aeveral of the fruit
growing courses are registered maids
and matrons whose names aan orna
mented with degrees from Smith and
Vaasar. There are lawyers, doctors,
and professional men of all sorts, many
not long from the effete East, who
have deserted their former work for
the more congenial occupation of rais
ing fruit or general farming under the
sunny Oregon skies.
Because of the number and variety of
the courses offered, and the tremen
dous ambition of the average short
course student to take advantage of
every offering which will assist him
when he returns to make practical ap
plication of the theories which he has
studied, his life is strenuous. The fruit
grower is apt to be in his seat in the
lecture-room promptly at 8 o'clock to
listen to a lecture on his mortal enemy,
the Insect pests. With an Intermission
which barely allows him time to get
from one lecture-room to another, he
Is found at 9 o'clock taking Professor
iewis general course In fruitgrowing,
while from 10 o'clock until noon he
takes his place In the apple-packing
room, learning the varied and intricate
packs which have helped to make Ore
gon apples famous, or alternates this
work with lectures on farm drainage.
or piant propagation. During the noon
hour there are generally lecturea on
subjects of agricultural Interest by
worm experts in their line, and after
an hour for lunch the process of
Knowledge-getting continues and the
afternoon is spent in the small-fruit
courses and lectures on soils and plant
oiBcasea. Tne evening la "digestion"
time, but the full fruitasre of the vn.
luminoua notes which are accumu
lated during the six weeks comes onlv
when, during the orchard cycle, the
grower has an ODDOrtunltr to annlv
his newly gained knowledge to his own
particular problems.
In the other courses, the dava work
Is hardly less strenuous. In the de
partment of animal husbandry, sev
eral hours a day are spent In actual
practice In stock-Judging and handling
of animals In the college barns. That
the short-course work may be as com
plete as possible. Professor Potter has
secured for experiments In judging and
handling a large number of horses, cat
tie and swine, which will be brough
to corvaills, especially for the si
weeks' work. They Include some of
the finest animals in the state, and
consist of an entire carload of Short
horn cattle and Southdown sheep lent
Dy Frank Brown, of Carlton, Or.; some
Poland China and Berkshire swine sent
by Thomas Brunk. of Salem, and C. E.
Barrows, of Crabtree, and three mag
n'ficent Percheron mares which have
been lent by J. B. Stump, of Monmouth,
ur.
In the dairy husbandry course, the
students are allowed to study a herd
consisting of representatives of the
leading dairy breeds, to see for them
selves the advantages and disadvan
tages of milking machines and to learn
how the unprofitable cows, known in
dairyland parlance as "boarders," can
be eliminated from the herd. Prac
tically the entire morning in the dairy
course is spent In the laboratories in
the study of dairy conditions, butter
and cheesemaking and milktesting,
while in the afternoon the theories of
dairy practice are given in lectures by
college experts.
In the domestic . science and art
course, housewives that are or are to
be pass busy days exploring th.i mys
teries of cooking, serving, laundering.
sewing and millinery; In fact, all that
pertains to the home and the improve
ment of domestic conditions on the
farm as well as in the city home.
In the engineering schools are being
offered courses In woodworking, black-
smithing, mechanical drawing and kin
dred subjects of engineering interest.
Here side by side In the courses of
fered this year Is a locomotive fireman
come to the college simply to study
the operation of machine valves and
other engine parts, that he may be
come an engineer; the operator of
thousands of acres who desires a more
extensive knowledge of machine prin
ciples, and the ordinary farmer who
wants to know- how to shoe his own
team of bays.
Altogether, the work accomplished
by the six weeks of Instruction durlnif
the short course at the Oregon Agrl
cultural College is perhaps further
reaching and more vital than anyoth
er movement for the betterment of ag
ricultural Interests in Oregon. Open
to and reaching the wealthy landowner
and less opulent farm laborer alike, the
results of Its work are found in every
nook and corner of the agricultural In
terests of Oregon. The tremendous
bound in Its registration figures, in
which an increase of 60 per cent is
noted over last year. Is but one of the
criteria by which the agriculturists'
appreciation of its work may be indi-
AID IS ASKED FOR HOME
Refuge for Old People Asks
Room Endowments.
for
SAX. Ell, Or., Jan. 14. (Special.)
Upon the completion of the addition to
the Methodist Old People's Home in Sa
lem, the board of managers gave a re
ceptlon which was attended by scores
of people.
The home now has 1 rooms. There
are large porches and' a basement.
When needed more rooms can be added
in the second story. '
The home was opened a year ago with
only two Inmates, 'but now eleven are
oomfortably domiciled. Although the
home is a Methodist institution it takes
any old person over 65 vears of in.
The home now has five Methodist, two
Presbyterian. two Congregationalist
and two belong to no church.
If any one wishes to endow a room
he board of managers will nlace nrvnn
the door of the room a plate bearing the
name of this person and it will stand
as a monument to ithe name of the ,
donor. Three thousand, five hundred'
dollars will produce enough Interest to:
keep one old person In the home per-,
petually for In these room endowments
the principal Is never touched.
The Hereditary Principle.
London Dally News.
There was an ocean pilot, and his eldest son
was blind
And deaf and dumb from childhood, like-!
wise vacant in his mind;
But of course he was a pilot when hlS'
daddy's course was run. !
And he navigated vessels as Ms father's '
eldest son.
There was a clever surgeon, who would eat '
off less and arms.
And Invest an operation In ' a thousand
nameless charms;
He'd an eldest boy who'd never seen an
operation done.
But suoceedeoto the practice as his father's
eiaest son.
There was a pious parson who, when folks
to danger strolled.
Would perform the part of shepherd and
restore them to the fold;
He'd a son, an unbeliever, but when heaven ,
that parson won.
There succeeded to his pulpit hla agnostic
eldest son.
There was a judge who ordered wicked ,
criminals to Jail;
He'd an eldest son a forger who abscond- '
ed from his ball; !
When that Judge above was summoned !
through a tintack In a bun.
His vacant place was taken by his out-:
lawed eldest son. ,
The pilot and the parson and the surgeon j
ana tne juage
Were all declared Impostors, but they all
refused to budge;
What mattered lack of knowledge or the :
evil they had done.
While each claimed his proud position as !
his father's eldest son? i
fetish, full of
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called j
God preserve the fine old
sweetness and light.
That big bulwark of our freedom
"Hereditary Right!"
Which, to driveler and drunkard and the
dastard virtue shuns.
Means the right to govern Britain In the
house of eldest sonr