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Ccnrso in Home Making Open to House
keepers. EVERY Oregon woman who wishes to
know how to keep her home most
suitably and economically may have
the opportunity of learning to do so by
availing herself of the new 0. A. C. vo
cational course in home making to be
opened September 22. Instruction and
training in this course rro designed to
aid the practical houskeeper in buying
most economically the family supplies
and in using them most profitably.
They also teach her how to care for lit
tle children and to look after her own
health. Indeed, the purpose of the
eourso is to teach her how to accom
plish the most possiblo with a given
expenditure of time and labor. It was
designed to meet the needs of women
who wish to become expert home mak
ers. This home making course is thor
oughly practical. It includes plain and
elaborate cooking, dressmaking, mar
keting, household furnishing and deco
ration, hygiene, care of. the sicck, and
all those various subjects in which
every manager of a home feels her
need of special knowledge.
The work of the course is completed
in one year. It is open to all women
who have sufficient age and common
school education to profit by it. In
general women of 18 years of age or
over who have an eighth grade di
ploma will be admitted to the course
upon application. Those of maturer
years who have not the diploma may
be admitted upon recommendation of
the Dean of the School, to whom cre
dentials should be presented.
The wives and housekeepers who ex
pect to enter this course should write
the College registrar concerning home
accommodations for the school year. It
is also advisable for them to write to
Dean Henrietta W. Calvin so that am
ple preparation may be made for the
work.
Twelve Good Seasons for Feeding
Ensilage.
MODERN dairy farms are not corn
Ill pletely equipped unless they have
silos, according to Professor B. E.
Graves, head of the 0. A. C. Dairy de
partment. Twelve reasons why this is
so are as follows:
1. Every ration seeds some succu
lent feed.
2. Corn silage is probably the cheap
est succulent feed that can be had.
3. An acre of corn can be placed
in the silo at less cost than that of
harvesting an acre of roots or kale.
4. A ton of corn silage contains more
food nutrient than a ton of roots or
kale.
5. Silage can be made in weather
that is unfit for making hay, Bince the
erop is neyer too wet to put into a silo.
6. Many crops will be saved and
utilized for feed that would otherwise
tave been a total loss because of un
favorable weather for handling the
erop as hay.
7. More feed can be stored in a
given space in the form of silage than
in that of hay or fodder.
8. A well-filled silo is a guarantee
against shrinkage of milk when pas
tures dry up.
9. Silage can be used for supple
menting pastures moro economically
than soiling crops, because less labor
is required and the feed is more pal
atable. 10. More stock can be kept on a
given area of land, when silage is the
basis of the ration.
11. Silage has a beneficial effect on
the digestive organs.
12. With 'he silo full a good, pala
table feed is always on hand regardless
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of how bad the weather is or how busy
men and teams aro at field work.
Manual Training Work for Women
Teachers.
A MANUAL TRAINING course, the
first year of which is adapted to
women as well as men students, is
advocated by Professor Frank II.
Shepherd, who has been recently added
to the Industrial Arts faculty at ! the
Oregon Agricultural College. This
eourse should be arranged with a view
to fit teachers for industrial work in
rural schools. Mr. Shepherd claims that
there is a heavy demand for women
teachers of domestic science who can at
the same time conduct the work in
manual training, and that the course
should be arranged to meet these re
quirements. Many rural schools also desire men
teachers wlfo can teach manual train
ing and at the same time care for the
work in agriculture, athletics or art
This demand should likewise be re
sponded to in an industrial arts eourse.
In this course the student's natural
adaptability should be ascertained dur
ing the first year, and all work succeed
ing that adapted to his special inclin
ation and talent. The entire eourse
should be so arranged that ft student
may drop out at the end of any semes
ter after the first year "and be prepared
to teach.
The work of this course in physics
should prepare students to understand
the right use and care of equipment in
homes and other institutions, with
special regard to sanitary effects. It
should teach the hows and whys of
common everyday material and its uses,
including the water supply, plumbing,
sewers, heating, ventilation, refrigera
tion, gas supply, stoves and lamps.
Corvallis Keeps Face With College
Growth.
THERE need be no fear that the rapid
growth of the Agricultural College,
plus the newly authorized vocational
courses, will create a student body too
large to be provided fur with suitable
housing accommodations. The situation
has been taken advantage of by a nuin
ber of keen investors and Corvallis
business men, and more houses than
ever before at any other time are in
process of building in Corvallis. There
are about 75 houses in course of con
struction row, and more than 100 will
have been built during the summer.
Most of these are built a) private resi
dences but r.re furnished with one to
several extra rooms that will be opened
to the use of students. In some in
stances the entire second floor is to be
turner over to student use.
In addition to the many new resi
dences intended partly for Btudcnt use
all the former club and fraternity
houses will be run to their capacity
and several new buildings are being
erected wholly for club use. Among
the larger aro the Ahneek Club home,
and the Gamma Upsilon. Each of these
will accommodate a club of about 30
members. Several other new buildings
have been erected for student homes
with rooms individual or en suite.
With all the earlier housinc accom
modations and the new rooming quar
ters for several hundred students to
rely upon, President Kerr is convinced
that ample provision will have been
made for all students, degree and voca
tional, who may desire admission to the
College.
Size and Soundness Sought in Stallions.
HERE are two things that farmers
I of Oregon may do to increase mate
rially their profits derived from
from horses, according to Professor Carl
N. Kennedy, specialist in horses at the
Oregon Agricultural College. The first
of these is to breed all marcs to sound,
purebred stallions of desirable type. The
second is to select sires for more size
in the colts.
In every section of this state one ean
find many cheap horses; but they are
all one or the other of two types
faulty conformation and unsound, or
small.
"I have been unable to find a single
horse in the state combining size and
desirable conformation that could be
bought at a price that does not pay
the producer a good protit to prouuee,
says Mr. Kennedy. "On the other
hand, I find many small undesirable
horses of poor breeding than ean be
bought at a price so cheap that there
is no profit in producing them, even un
der range conditions.
"What we need among our horses is
that horsemen use the best sires. A
$5.00 increase in the service fee gen
erally pays an additional profit of from
$25.00 to $50.00 in the value of the
colt."
Protection From Babies.
Kjl VOID strange dogs, but if ap-
proached by a dog dripping
saliva from his jaws stand
perfectly still, since rabid dogs do not
notice still objects," says Dr. B. T.
Simms, veterinarian at the Oregon
Agricultural College. "Animals bitten
by rabid dogs should either be killed
or given the pasteur treatment, If dogs
are bitten by other dogs suspected of
being rabid, they should be closely eon
fined and watched for sixty days. Sick
cats, especially those having fits, should
be avoided. Every person bitten by
rabid dogs should take the pasteur
treatment, which can be had in nearly
every hospital. If the dog is suspect
ed of being rabid, shut it up and watch
it closely for symptoms, which will de
velop in six to ten days. The wound
made by a suspected dog should be cau
terized at once with nitric acid or car
bolic acid. The suspected dog should
not be killed until its infection is
proved or disproved. If rabid its head
should be packed in ice and sent to the
State Board of Health at Portland."
Yeast In Bread Making.
llOME made yeast is much better
than dry yeast in making
bread," says Dean Henrietta
W. Calvin of the Home Economics de
partment, O. A. C. "It may bo likened
to the seed saved by a good gardener
from his own healthy and vigorous
plants. When thus prepared it contains
many millions of livo growing plants of
microscopic size. Tho liquid yeast can
be kept in a cool, dark place about two
weeks. Sugar is a good yeast food.
A little added to the bread does not
affect the flavor of the bread, but it
does quicken the action of the yeast.
Salt is used for flavor. The small
quantities in which it is used in bread
does not retard the growth of the yeast
plants, but it adds to the whiteness of
the bread. The bacteria that cause
sourness are developed when the bread
is kept too warm. Bread that feels
warm to the hand is too warm to make
sweet, light and well flavored bread."
New Bacteriologist.
CLOSE relation between bacteria and
soil fertility has created an increas
ing demand for instruction and for
extension work in bacteriology, which
demand has been met by the appoint
ment of a new instructor in this sub
ject at the Oregon Agricultural College.
The appointee, Ralph MeBurney, has
bad a great deal of practical experience
in bacteriology and chemistry, and has
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taught these subjects for several year
in schools and colleges. He is at pre
ent a member of the Oklahoma expert
ment station staff and was formerly
chemist for the Thomson Chemical Co,
of Baltimore. He has conducted exten
sive experiments in nitrification and
ammonification of soils, and has done
considerable pathogenic work in tho,
analysis of body liquids with reference
to tuberculosis. His service will be of
great benefit to the people of Oregon
as well as to students of the College.
Mistakes in Summer Pruning.
TnAT a good many Oregon fruitmen
make the mistake of over pruning
bearing trees is the conclusion
reached by Professor C. I. Lewis, hortit
culturist at the Agricultural College.
Trees are sometimes fairly slaughtered
during the summer, branches six inchel
in diameter being cut off. After ha
ing watched these trees carefully Pro
feasor Lewis is convinced that the prac
tice is generally injurious to the tree,
exposing parts of it to sunburn and
often unbalancing the tree by forcing
out waterspout growth. Another mis
taken orchard practice that is too often
employed is shearing off the upper
limbs so that the entire top of the trees
is practically level, giving it the ap
pearance of having undergone a Dutch'
hair cut. All branches should not bo
cut back uniformly, but each according
to the vigor of its terminal branch.
Fireblight Control.
FIREBLIGHT is recognized by tho
darkened, scorched appearance of
leaves, blossoms and small twigs.
It affects both apple and pear trees,
turning the apple leaves brown and
the pear leaves almost black. Bark ia
the eanker stage is dark, shrunken and
surrounded by distinct fissures. Tho
treatuent recommended by the depart
ment of Pathology at the Agricultural
College is cutting away all affected
parts, burning them, and washing tho
wounds and the cutting tools with a
1 to 1000 solution of corrosive subli
mate in water. Cut well back, even
below the visibly affected portion of
the wood, in order to get it all. II
every farmer and fruit grower in Ore
gon will do this for one or two sea
sons, fireblight will become a thing
of the past in this state.
Special Training' for Women.
WOMEN today are specially trained
for their life work. The speciali
sation that is demanded in all
fields of endeavor makes no excep
tion in the work of women. That they
should be expert home-makers is quite
as necessary as that men should be ex
pert farmers or engineers. Facilities for
providing this training are afforded at
the Oregon Agricultural College by
new buildings, new and modern in
every respect and thoroughly adapted
to their intended use. The scientific
instruction is broad and thorough, for
the efficient womaa must know why
as well as how. The home economics
students are likewise liberally instruct
ed m languago, literature, economics
and sociology, in preparation for their
great community responsibilities.
Confer on Co-operation.
PRESIDENT W. J. KERR and Pro
fessors Ilctzel and French, repre
senting the Oregon Agricultural
College, are in Denver conferring with'
Dr. A. C. True, of the United States De
partment of Agriculture, on subjects
connected with co-operation between
stnto and nation in carrying on work in
Oregon. It is thought that this confer
ence will result in putting into active
operation several new lines of work of
great benefit to the farmers and other,
citizens of the state.