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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.
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
Oldest, Largest Second-Hand Bag
Doalers in Northwest. ,
173 Front St.
Portland, Ore,