Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1914)
9 ITOME 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, Corvallis, Oregon, the Sole Aim of Which Is to Aid Agriculturists. ASSISTANT STATE LEADEB OF FIELD DEMONSTRATION. Jt N ASSISTANT state leader of county field work has been ap pointed to help Professor II.. T. French care for tho growing interests of farm demonstration. The new assis tant is M. 0. Evans, Jr., supervisor of school and homo garden work for the Portland Public Schools, who has al ready had considerable experience in rural work in Oregon. Mr. Evans, a native of Vermont, is a graduate of Cornell University, and has taken two years graduate work at tho Oregon Agricultural College. In 1912 he was engaged in making agri cultural investigations for tho state survey of tho Oregon Stato Immigra tion Commission. The next year he was business manager for tho General Welfare School conducted by tho Agri cultural College. In March of last year Mr. Evans was called to Portland to take charge of tho school garden work for tho Gar den Contest League. Tho success of the garden movement was so pro nounced that the Portland school gar den plans soon camo into national recognition. Mr. Evans was then ap pointed supervisor of garden work by the Board of Education. During his less than two years of service the school garden movement has grown from three gardens to 43, and the num ber of children doing garden work has increased from a few hundred to more than 8.0QO. The work of the new assistant will be partly direct and partly through the county demonstration agents. It will deal with all forms of plant and ani mal production that are practiced on the farms of Oregon, and will include in a general way the advancement Of progressive agriculture through tho Ex tension division of the Agricultural College. VALLEY NEWSPAPER MEN TO MEET AT COLLEGE. IN CONNECTION with a number of stato and district conventions the next meeting of the Willamette Valley Editorial Association will be held at the Agricultural College. The date for this meeting has been placed on Saturday, December 5, by the execu tive committee. Mr. Hornibrook, edi tor of the Albany Democrat, is presi dent of the association and Mr. Bede, editor of tho Cottage Grove Sentinel, is secretary. The Agricultural College will join with the officers of the asso ciation in tho work of bringing a large delegation of newspaper men to this convention and in providing for a profitable meeting. It is the wish of tho association of ficers that tho time of the delegates should be divided between the business session and the work of inspecting the college buildings and equipment and learning more of the character and ex tent of college operations. The occa sion will form an excellent opportun ity for the live newspaper men of the Willamette Valley to see in operation the institution maintained by tho state to give help and direction to its farm ing activities while at the same time traning its future citizens for useful and honorable careers. Among the other important conven tions to be held during this week are those representing the agricultural, the domestic and the educational intorcsts of the state. The presence of these con ventions here will give tho editors a chance to meet many leading men of the state in various lines of endeavor. Special railway rates will be secured for the delegates who will be the guests of tho college during their stay. STALLION BUYERS WARNED OF UNLICENSED ANIMALS. JIIAT STALLIONS coming from out- side the state will be exhibited at the State Fair this fall is the in formation received by the State Stal lion Registration Board, Bays Carl N. Kennedy, the Agricultural College horse specialist who is secretary of the board. Those contemplating buying any of these stallions are warned that they should ascertain whether they are registered by associations that are recognized by the United States gov ernment. If thero is any doubt as to their soundness and breeding they should be purchased only with tho un derstanding that they aro not to be ac cepted and paid for until licensed by tho Oregon Board. No unsound stallion is allowed by law to stand for service in this state. Ilcnce no person should purehaso for public service a stallion that is not recorded in a recognized association, sinco such animals are licensed as mon grels and do not meet with favor among the horsemen. It is greatly against your interests to permit a horse dealer or peddler to sell you an un sound stallion or one of unsound breeding. The Stallion Registration Board, lo cated at Corvallis, is glad at all times to give any information within its power. PRECEPTRESS NAMED. FW. KEHRLI, who was graduated H from the course in dairying at tho Agricultural College last June, has been appointed farm dairy ad visor of the Hermiston district, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of 8. J. Damon. Mr. Kehrli's appoint ment was to take effect September 1, and he has already .entered upon his duties. This is the third 0. A. C. dairyman to receive the appointment as dairy field man at Hermiston, the first being now deceased and the second, Mr. Da mon, having resigned to go into the creamery business for himself. Like hit predecessors, the present encumbent was selected by the head of the dairy department for his splendid qualifica tions. "He was," says Professor Graves, "one of the specially strong men of the elans, and will undoubtedly bo highly useful to the dairymen of his district. He is in the co-operative service of the Agricultural College and the V. S. Department of Agriculture, and is in a position to render practical aid to the dairy industry in various ways. ' ' It is tho province of the field dairy men to keep in touch with the dairy men of their district and give such as sistance as may be needed in solving the local dairy problems. Questions of selecting and improving, tho herd, of feeding and management, of dairy pro duction and dairy manufacture, as well as marketing dairy produces, reeeive the attention of the dairy agent. The agents likewise visit the dairy farms on invitation or in emergency, and either make necessary recommendations or take the matter before the eollege specialists who may be better prepared to render tho special service required. subjects are entirely scientific and pro fessional, and are made up of general chemistry, general pharmacy, nomen clature, therapeutics and doses, phar macognosy, organic chemistry, materia medica, toxicology, qualitativo analysis and .prescription practice. Each year tho college has registered not only four-year high school gradu ates, but men of more advanced age, some of whom have had five years or more of practical experience in the drug business, but who lack adequate scientific training and havo found this course peculiarly fitted to their needs. In this course as in all others, tho eollege is carrying out its policy of serving the best interests of tho stato. With nine specially equipped labora tories for chemical and pharmaceutical work, this course, under the super vision of Profossor Adolph Ziefle, is well suited to meet the needs of all classes of students. Students may register for this work on the regular registration dates. Sep tember 18 and February 9. Any in quiries concerning the course should be directed to H. M. Tenant, Registrar 0. A. C, Corvallis, Oregou. COLLEGE SHORT COURSE IN PRACTICAL PHARMACY. A COURSE in pharmacy designed es pecially for those students who wish to take the junior and the senior state board examinations is maintained by the Agricultural Col lege. Tho course is strong and prac tical, covering a period of two years, and upon completion provides its stu dents with a suitable certificate. The FALL CROP SEED TESTED. FARMERS and gardenors may have their seed for the fall crop test ed hv exDerts in eharee of the Agricultural College co-operative seed testing laboratory at the State Fair in Salem. That this may result In very great gain in many eases has been con clusively shown. The work will be done with absolute thoroughness and accu racy and will be free to all residents of tho state. "Growers who plant untested seed are often taking big chances of spread in? weed Dcsts as well as getting a poor stand," said Professor Scuddcr in discussing this feature of the college exhibit at tho fair. "The laboratory has iust finished a test of alfalfa seed in which there were 47,970 weed seeds of various kinds in each pound of seed. In sowing this crop the farmer would distribute 2,817 seeds of dodder and many seeds of other kinds on each square rod of his land." Of 295 samnles of alfalfa seed test ed during tho last year, 93 samples were more or less adulterated with dodder. This, is 31 per cent of the samples tested, and shows that one man in every three that purchased alfalfa seed bought dodder for his farm. Pro fessor Scuddcr called attention to one case in which a farmer bought $150 worth of alfalfa seed, sowed about half of it and becoming convinced that the seed was not pure, sent a samplo to the Agricultural College to bo tested. An enormous amount of dodder seed was found in the sample. The farmer had done untold damage to his fields. In fact, the need of having seed tested is so pressing that much will be made of this feature of the Agricultural Col logo exhibit at the Stato Fair. WOMAN GROWS PEACHES. ONE of Willamette Valley's most successful peach growers is Miss Helen Crawford, formerly a mem ber of the Agricultural College faculty. it .i.r,l thin vcar has produced a remarkably fine crop pf peaches that . . nril flnvnr those I rival m appearing ...... of the distinctly poach sections of the country. Miss Crawford has followed tho college methods of orchard prac tice and her success points the way to a far larger production of tho queen of fruits in Western Oregon. A. B. Cordlcy, dean of agriculture and director of tho Oregon Experi ment Station, spent last week at the Sherman County branch Experiment Station near Moro. It is the intontion of Dean Cordiey not only to observe tho operations in progress at each branch experiment station in the state, but also to relate more closely the work of the various collego and experiment station departments with tho work of the branch Btations, and bring all these forces into closer co operation with the farmers of Oregon. COLLEGE CALENDAR 1914-15. 1914. September 18, 19, 21, Friday, Saturday, Monday Registration and examina tion for admission. September 22, Tuesday Recitations be gin. October 9, Friday Quarterly meeting Board of Regents. November 2 Forestry short course be gins. November 2a, 26, 27, 28, Wednesday (noon), Thursday, Friday, Saturday" Thanksgiving recess. November 30 to December 5 (noon) Farmers' Week. December 19, Saturday (noon) Christ" mas recess begins. 1915. January 4, Monday Regular exercisei resumed. Winter short course begins. January 8, Wednesday Quarterly meet. ingBoard of Regents. January 30, Saturday Winter short eourse ends. February 1, 2, 3, 4, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday First semester examinations. February 4, Thursday First semester end. February fl, Tuesday Second semester begins. April 7, Wednesday Quartorly meeting Board of Regents. April 16 Forestry short course ends. May 7, Friday Military inspection. May 22 Interscholastio Fiold and Track Meet. May 30, Friday Decoration Day, legal holiday. May 31, Juno 1, 2, 3, 4, Monday, Tue. day, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Second semester examinations. June 8, Sunday Baccalaurcato exew eiscs. Juno 7, Monday Quarterly meeting of Board of Regonts. Jnne 8, Tuesday Commencement exes cises. June 14, Monday Summer school be gins. Subject to ehangc. A. H. BURTON Education I graduated from Southern Illinois State Normal, 1901 University of Illinois, 1907: University of Oregon Lair, School, 1912. Experience i Taught fl years In a o id t r j schools, 6 years s principal and a superintend ent, 7 years Is largo hifk Bo h o o 1 1 ; now. State Superintendent w'h'si of Schools 1B.ndhooI,Po Principles I faror Inn cor termi tar enniw try schools, consolidation whero practical, better teachers, teachers promoted for meril only, practical courses, State's money more economically expended. Progressive Nominee "
