The gazette-times., August 27, 1914, HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION, Page 2, Image 8

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.
View of Oregon Agricultural College, CorvaUis, Oregon, the Sole Aim of Which Is to Aid Agriculturists.
NEW 0. A. C. CATALOGUE.
ALL prospective college students,
men and women of maturer years
as well as girls and boys, will find
a vast fund of valuable information
in the new 0. A. C. catalogue just is
sued and placed in the hands of the
College registrar for distribution. With
other useful knowledge that the cata
logue imparts it tells who may enter
the College, under what conditions,
what the probable expense of the col
lege year will be, and some of the ben
efits of the college training.
Many significant improvements and
additions to the work of tho Agricul
tural College are seen to have been
made during the year just ended. An
important addition is tho authoriza
tion of vocational courses for gram
mar schools students who have not the
timo to prepare for the degree cour
ses, and for men and women who feel
the need of more expert knowledge
and higher technical skill in carrying
on their life work, but have not the
money, the timo or the educational
qualifications for entering the degree
courses.
Beginning September 22, this spe
cial vocational work will be offered in
agriculture, dairying and home mak
ing for one year; in business methods
for two years, and in mechanic arts
for three years. On November 2 the
vocational course in forestry opens
for a five and a half months' term.
The work in all these courses is
thoroughly practical, and includes only
the subjects of greatest importance in
the practical industries for which they
offer training.
The new standards for admission to
the degree courses is also fully ex
plained in the new catalogue. The ex
act meaning of the 12 required credits
is pointed out and the substitutions
and conditions are plainly Btated. It is
further shown that after the close of
the year 1914-15 the standard will re
quire 15 full credits from an accredited
high school, the equivalent of four
full years of secondary education. If
entrance is sought on examinations
tho prospective entrants should pre
sent themselves for examination on
September IS, 19 or 21. Entrance may
be secured by transfer from other col
leges and universities.
The College year opens September
22 and ends June 8. The first semester
ends February 4, and the second be
gins February 9. Farmers' Week is
November 30 to December 5, and the
Winter Short Course is from January
4 to January 30.
paper rolls inside, each roll holding
a dozen eggs in a perforated lining.
Its weight is about 4 pounds. When
filled with good eggs of good size the
combined weight of case, containers
and eggs, is about 20 pounds.
The cost of sending 20 pounds a
distance of 50 to 150 miles by par
cels post is 24 eents. The rate for
returning the 4-pound container is 8
cents. Thus the entire cost of the ship
ment of ten dozen eggs not counting
cost of container is 32 cents, which ia
slightly more than 3 eents per dozen.
The problem of bringing producer
and consumer together and arranging
term a of delivery and payment is be
ing investigated by Prof. Dryden,
of the Oregon Agricultural College,
who has already secured the names of
somo Portland consumers and some
Willamette Valley farmers, between
whom trade relations will be estab
lished as rapidly as possible. Other
systems are being tried out and ma
tured with excellent prospects for suc
cess. All who are interested either
as producers or consumers, should write
to the Poultry Department, giving ex
act conditions as nearly as possible.
assistant will be provided for the state
leader of county work and for the
state agent of club work. The farm
survey will be conducted by a federal
expert who will determine the degree
of efficiency with which a number of
farms is operated. Methods of con'
ducting the surveys will alBO be "taught
to the county agents in order to extend
the survey work throughout the state.
Announcements of the government's
policy and appropriation were made in
a recent conference at Denver, the
Federal department being represented
by Dr. A. C. True and C. B. Smith,
and the state interests by President
W. J. Kerr, Director R. D. Hetzel, and
State Leader H. T. French.
EGGS BY PARCEL POST.
EGGS properly packed in suitable
containers can be shipped in quan
tities of ten dozen for a distance
of 50 to 150 miles and the containers
returned at a total cost of slightly
moro than three cents per dozen. The
rates for smaller shipments is slightly
higher, those for larger some lower, but
the difference" is not very great. In
any case, the cost of shipping the eggs
and returning tho container is less
than the charges of the buyer, com
mission man and the retailer, as made
in the usual channels of marketing
eggs, By taking advantage of this
situation producers should get a little
better prico for their eggs, consumers
should get their good eggs at rather
less cost, and consumers' familcs should
get a regular supply of good eggs.
For his extra profit on his eggs
the farmer gathers them regularly
each day, twice a day in warm
weather, stores them in cool, clean
places and ships them promptly. The
experimental shipments by O. A. C.
were made ia a container that has tea
CAMP FOOD FOR ONE MAN ON
MONTH'S FOREST TRIP.
THE most useful food for camp and
trail is that which contain! the
most nourishment with the least
bulk. These conditions limit the ehoiee
that can wisely be made of available
camp food material, but considerable
variety is shown in the following list
of supplies prepared by the entertain
ing magazine writer, Stewart Edward
White, and given as one example of a
month's camp rations, in the popular
0. A. C. bulletin, Camp Cookery, by
Ava B. Milam.
Flour plain, pancake and corn meal
88 desired 15 pounds.
Meat bacon or "" boned ham 15
pounds.
Rice, 8 pounds.
Baking Powder, pound.
Saccharine, 150 tablets.
Sugar, 2 pounds.
Cereal, 8 pounds.
Raisins, 1 pound.-
Salt and pepper.
Beans, 5 pounds.
Erbwurst, 3 pounds.
Dried vegetables, 2 pounds.
Dried potatoes, 2 pounds.
Baker's eggs, 1 can..
The combined weight is about 65
pounds.
Many substitutes can be made
while maintaining tne general plan of
th) rations, bucIi as coffee for tea,
eggs for meat, etc. The relative
quantities in which exchanges are
made together with direct'ons for car
rying, cooking and serving camp food,
are given in the bulletin which may be
had upon request sent to the Extension
Division, 0. A. C, CorvaUis, Oregon.
SCORE CARD FOB CORN.
CORN exhibtied at the state and
county fairs of Oregon by the boys
of the Industrial Clubs will be
scored and judged according to the fol
lowing score card as prepared by the
Agricultural College:
Adaptability maturity, size, solid
ity, etc., 25 points.
Seed condition large, bright germ,
free from discoloration, 15 points.
Shape of kernel medium deep,
slightly wedge-shaped, straight sides,
15 points.
Uniformity true to type, uniform
size, shape, ete, 15 points.
Weight of earlarge proportion of
grain, 10 points.
Length and circumference medium,
10 points.
Color of grain and eob free from
mixture, 5 points.
Butts and tips well filled, 5 points.
Possible score, 100 points.
Since many hundred girls and boys
will have their eorn exhibit judged by
this score card it would be well for
parents, teachers and club officers to
become familiar with it and give their
assistance to the club members, who
must understand it in order to select
the exhibits to. best advantage. Dem
onstrations of scoring by the card
should prove attractive features of parent-teachers'
and club meetings.
School. The Portland School was the
first meeting place of the newly wed
ded nair. Mr. Brandon beine its prin
cipal whoa Miss Haskell began teach
ing there. Mr. Brandon came to tne
Agricultural Colleee in 1913 as Pro
fessor of Industrial ArtB and director
of shop work. After a brief visit
with friends and relatives "back
east" he will return with his bride to
her alma mater, his present place of
employment, and resume his official
duties.
FEDERAL APPROPRIATION.
f"LEVEN thousand dollars has been
appropriated by the United States
Department of Agriculture for ex
tension work in Oregon agriculture and
domestic economy. Announcement has
also been made that all Federal ex
tension work will be carried on in con
nection with tho state colleges under
the direction of the extension divisions.
The Oregon apportionment will be ex
pended for the following purposes:
Special field work in dairying,
$2500; supervision of county agricul
tural work, $3440; support of girls'
and boys' industrial clubs, 2700; farm
efficiency survey, $1500; and dork
hire, $8ui.
The work in dairying will be
maintained as at present, while an
COST OF A TEAR IN COLLEGE.
TWO hundred and twenty-fonr dol
lars is given as tho average cost of
a year in the Oregon Agricultural
College. This sum is apportioned
among the various items of a student's
budget as follows: Registration fee,
$5; student fee, (i5; laboratory fees
and deposits, $18; textbooks and sup
plies, $20; board for eight months,
$120; room rent for nine months,
$30, and personal outlay, $20. In ad
dition to the above are the expenses
for military suits and gymnasium
suits for the men and physical culture
suits for the women. The cost of the
former is about $15, and of tho latter
about $5. With good care these suits
will wear for more than ono year,
Tho items need not bo considered by
men and women who enter the voen
tional courses. Many regular students
make their way wholly or in part by
securing employment outsido of school
hours. Employment bureaus under the
management of tho College are main
tained to assist students in finding
work.
WELL-BRED SWINE.
IN selecting foundation stock for the
hog herd it is best to purchase ani
mals whose ancestry was bred con
tinuously by a single breeder. This is
the belief and experience of Professor
O. R. Samson, swine specialist at the
Oregon Agricultural College. In It is
way the buyer gets the benefit of a
successful breeder's judgment. Lack
ing better means of judging desirable
animals it is safe to assume that stock
thought good enough to be retained
in the herds of the breeder, genera
tion after generation, is better than
average stock. It pays to be wary of
the stock whoso ancestry was bred by;
many different breeders that are un
known in the history of the breed. In
every case the buyer of foundation
stock should become familiar with the
history of the stock selected, learning
the weak points to avoid them and the,
strong points to preserve them.
LIQUIDS FOR BREAD MAKING.
SWEET MILK is the best of all
liquids for bread making, accord
ing to Dean Henrietta W. Calvin,
of the Oregon Agricultural College. It
should be scalded to kill the micro
organisms that cause sourness in milk,
and then cooled. Milk bread will be
a little yellow, but its flavor is bet
ter than that of water bread and it
is more nutritious. Water may be used,
however, and good bread can be made
with it. Scalded butter milk or whey,
either one, makes good bread. Potato
water is often used, but if potato yeast
is used with it the bread will likely
be a littlo damp and dark. None of
these liquids should be used scalding
hot, Bince flour is always injured b
scalding and the bread is dump, clammy
and of poor texture.
W. T. Tufts, a graduate of the Ore'
gon Agricultural College, has been
appointed an instructor in Horticulture
in his alma mater.
A. H. BURTON
O. A. C. PROFESSOR WEDS.
COLLEGR tradition was upset Aug
ust 5th when an Oregon Agri
cultural College professor, Henry
Clay Brandon, turned his bnck on his
bachelor friends and entered tho ranks
of the married. His bride was Miss
Vera Etta Haskell, a graduate of the
O. A. C, class of 1911, who has since
that time been an instructor in Domes
tic Science at tho Portland Trades
Progressive
Nominee
Education i
I graduated
from Southern
Illinor. State
Normal, 1901;
University o f
Illinois, 1907;
University o f
Oregon ..jj a
School, 1912.
Experience
Taught 6 years
in country
schools, 6 years
as principal and
a s superintend
ent, 7 yoars in
large high,
schools ; sow
State Superintendent w a I h.' in g
t c L I School, Tort-
Of achOOlS !,.
Principles I favor longer terms for coun
try schools, consolidation where practical,
hotter teachers, teachers promoted for meris
only, practical cotirnes, Btate's money mora
economically expot)dcl