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 "