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2 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Oregon Agricultural College is the Friend of the Farmer Page of News Notes and Interesting Articles Specially Written by College Experts for This Newspaper. .-A '.U' - ,-.:-! f fODAY tho young man seeking a I higher education can pick out his life career and the college training to fit him for it," says Pro fessor Edwin T. Reed in the beautiful Oregon Agricultural Collego booklet "The Life Career," which is just off the press. The volume describes in detail the value of purposeful vocational training and tells how it .is provided ia large measure ut the college. The booklet eontains 96 pages, profusely illustrated and is chock full of illuminating facts on tho relation of well directed college work to well directed life work. Any one who is interested and will take the time to read the book through care fully and examine the illustrations will have an excellent idea of the quality and extent of work done in agricultural schools. Concerning the career of the young man Professor Heed proceeds as follows; "He can choose, for instance, to worl; in the national forest, building trailR and marking boundaries, provid ing firebreaks, planting seeds for pro pagating now or different species of trees and gnisscs, and projecting plans for the most permanently profitable method of handling the timber; and he eau find the services ia a School of Forestry. "He may aim to enter business, or follow the exacting but polished duties of a private secretary, and he will find the specific training for the technical duties of these vocations, as well as much helpful instruction in the larg est problems of the work, in the vari ous courses of a school of commerce. "He may aspire to be an expert ma chinist, handling iutricato and precise tasks of a worker in iron and steel, a maker of massive instruments as deli cate in operation as the poised mag netic needle, and ho will find in me chanical engineering exactly the train ing ho desires. "He may want to be a horticultural expert, to aid ia the development of some potential Eden; to protect the fruit -wealth of an abundant common wealth from the inroads of disease and the ravages of insect pests; or to en' gage in the mysteries of propagating new and wondrous fruits, and he Will find in the school of agriculture the extended horticultural training that he need. "He may choose to rear fine horses, sheep, or dairy cattle or learn the var ied and responsible duties of farm management, and he .will find in the courses animal husbandry, dairy hus bandry, and agronomy such training as will give him both confidence and enthusiasm for such a life career. "He may wish to be a veterinarian, practicing the arts of medicine and surgery that save the lives of thou sands of the dumb frienc's of humanity, and he will find in tho courses in veterinary science both the theory and the practice to fit him for this humane service. "He may have had an insight into the clay industries, and desire such scientific instruction as will enable him to engage in pottery making or to conduct a tile factory, and in the cer amics courses of the school of mines he will be given the instruction he Xequires. "And thus through a score or more of useful vocations, as they are pre sented in a progressive land-grant College." t Alfalfa Belt Extended By Liming Sour Soils, THAT the field of growing alfalfa on an extensive scale would be extended by applying lime to the acid soils of tho Willamette Valley View of Oregon Agricnltnral College. Ooryallis, Oregon, the Sola Aim of Which Is to Aid and the Coast country, is the conclu sion reached by Professor H. D. Scud der, agronomist at the Oregon Agri cultural College. The reason for this is that the plant thrives best only in association with alfalfa bacteria, which are especially sensitive to acid conditions and do not exist in suffi cient numbers in soils that are acid. With an occasional application of lime stone to properly drained soils alfalfa makes a very satisfactory growth on soils where it now either fails entirely or does not thrive. "Clover ami even vetch do not suc ceed well on soils in these divisions of the state when sown on virgin land," says Professor Scudder. "While vetch, alsike and red clover, field peas and beans grow fairly well on the older soils of regions that have be come self inoculated, their yield would be greatly increased by making the soils less acid. "Tho heavy rainfalls of these sec tions and the lack of freezing weath er in winter are natural causes of this lime deficiency. Lime is readily solu able in water and easily leached out of the soil. Sufficient trials have been made to show the valuable effects of returning a supply of lime for that which was leached out and lost by natural causes. This liming of the soils will not only increase production of the legumes, but it will be . of the greatest importance in general crop production, since there can be no per manent soil fertility without some of the legumes." Boys For Camp school. MULTNOMAH COUNTY bag ar ranged to send two boys, who may win first prives in indus trial projects, to the school and eamp conducted by the State Department and tho State Agricultural College at the State Fair in Salem next fall. By the terms of membership the school will be made up of two boys from each county, and these Multnomah boys are the first reported for mem bership by Superintendent J. A. Churchill. Cane or Beet Sugar. fEET SUGAR is jost as valuable in JJ putting up jells, jams and other fruit products as eane sugar, according to the agricultural ehemists at the Oregon Station. "Their com position and action are identical," says Professor H. V. Tartar, "and we have found that the two sugars may be used interchangeably." If this infor mation reaches farmers and fruitmen quite generally it will enable them to go ahead with their canning and pre serving in those districts in which either the one or the other kind of sugar is not available or is quoted at a higher price. -.. Girls Take Agriculture. IN this year's graduating class at tho Oregon Agricultural College two women received degrees ini agriculture. These, the first women to be graduated in agriculture in the history of the college, are Miss Kate Failing, of Portland, and Miss Clara Nixon, of Trumansburg, N. Y. Miss Failing received her degree in general agriculture, and Miss Nixon, who came here from Cornell University, com pleted her course in poultry husbandry. During her college work Miss Nixon wrote a poultry bulletin on "Feeding Young Chickens." Control Measures for Black Spot of Boses. CONSIDERABLE concern is felt among rose fanciers regarding somo, of ' the fungous pests that attack their favorite ornamental, ac- cording to inquiries received by the Plant Pathology department of the Oregon Agricultural College. Chief among the diseases is that commonly called "black spot," a trouble affect ing tho foliage and well characterized! by the name. Recommendations for control are (1), to gather and burn all leaves that have the spot, whether dead or still on tho bush. This should be done sometime between late fall and the time new growth starts in the spring. This alone is not sufficient so it will be necessary (2), to use some good fungicide as a spray, applications to bo made at intervals of about ten days or so that new foliago is kept covered, commencing ns soon as the disease can be detected on tho older leaves. Where only a few plants are to be treated potassium permanganate made by a dissolving crystals in cold water and diluting until a pale rose red solu tion is secured, may be used. Since this is rather expensive to use on a commercial scale a eopper spray may be substituted, Bordeaux mixture has the disadvantage of leaving a deposit; the following ammonical solution of copper carbonate is recommended: Water, 15 gallons; earbonate of eop per, 2 ounees; strong ammonia, 1 pint Make a thin paste of the eopper carbonate in a little water, then slow ly add ammonia until a deep blue solu tion is obtained. This should not be come clouded when diluted with the water. Bections Represented in Graduating Class, G RADUATES of this year's class at the Agricultural College rep resented 21 different counties in Oregon with a total of 127 students. Next to Benton County, which fur nished the largest number, comes Mult nomah with 20 representatives. Marion County is next with 11. Then come Clackamas, Linn and Umatilla with 6 each; Hood River, Union and Yam hill with four each; Douglas, Jackson and Washington with 3 each; Lake, Lane, Polk, Wallowa and Wasco with 2 each, and Clatsop, Harney and Lin coln witb 1 each. There were also represented 11 states other than Oregon with a total of 38 students. California led with 20, fol lowed by Washington with 7. New York and Idaho were each represent ed by two students, and Delaware, In diana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachu setts, Mississippi and Texas had one representative each. There were but two graduates who are residents of foreign countries, and these both came from our neighboring state, Canada. Work of County Agents Brings Good Results, iI,OOD results of the work of Vi county demonstration agents are beginning to appear," said Professor H. T. French, state leader of farm demonstration at tho Oregon Agncultural College, "wnile it is impossible to measure the value of their mpst valuable accomplishments in dollars and cents, reports of 156 agents in the. states of the northern and western parts of the United States show tho value to farmers to be more than one and one tenth millions of dollars. The work they did in organ ization, co-operation, maintaining soil fertility, improving livestock herds and educational work is an investment for future boncfits the value of which timo only will show. "During the part of the year 1913 in which they carried on their work these agents visited 40,683 farmers on their own farms, co-operated in ngn cultural betterment with one half that tMWWMMWW.WWIII.KUI .1111 JttwMB. Agriculturist. number, addressed 6014 meetings and organized 757 co-operative bodies. They prepared and published 376 emergency circulars, 1174 timely articles for tho press, and wrote 67,033 personal let ters to farmers on local problems. More than 300,000 acres of field crops were grown under their direction. The agents supervised the planting and culture of thousands of acres of orchards, and gave spraying directions for many kinds of trees. They organi zed almost 3,000 farms, and made working plans and crop rotation sys tems for almost as many more. They were directly responsible for the build ing of 1,804 silos and the improve ment of many homes. They assisted in the purchase of 719 registered sires and tested 16,027 cows for production. They were instrumental in the vacci nation of 105,806 hogs for cholera, in many eases making the vaccination themselves. "The system is new in Oregon bnt already work of the greatest value to farmers haB been accomplished Dy, the agents now in the field." IN SECTARY AT HOOD RIVER. AN INSECT ABY for the study of local insect pests will be cstab liHhed at Hood River by V. L Safro, assistant professor of entom. nWv nt the Oreiron Aerieultural Col- lege, who is stationed at Hood River for tho summer. The purpose or. tne inseetary is to scenre exact informa tion on the life history of insects that are pests in that district so that orch ard ista may see and study them in their various stages, and to learn as nearly as possible the time at wnicn the different stages in their develop ment is reached so that control meas ures can be applied most efficiently. It is expected that the information de veloped in this research work will be of great use in identifying and con trolling the local insect enemies. SUMMER SCHOOL FOR YOU. THE summer school session at the Ore gon Agricultural College is designed to help the peoplo of Oregon in pre paring themselves to do better and mora satisfactory work and to do it mors economically. For this reason all stu dents who believe that they can profit by the instruction offered will be ad mitted without examination or request for credentials. "It is presumed that all who apply for admission havo a serious purpose and are of good moral character", says Professor E. D. Boss ier, director of the 8nmmer School College credits will be granted when requested, to the extent to which tha work accomplished is equivalent to the tandards demanded in the regular school year. - The regular college registration fee of $5 is the only tuition charged. Those attending fevcr than Six weeks will be charged $1 per week. This one fee admits students to as many courses' as they can -profitably attend during the entire session." Edinburgh, Srollaml, last yenr sent Ukf Unitud Htatos $10,418 worth of glue. SACKS New and second hand Sacks of all kinds. Hop Cloth, Burlap and Twine. Sacks of all kinds manufactured. We ship anywhere and buy everywhere. Country orders solicited. WINKLEMAN BAG CO. 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