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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1920)
~- PIA, OD pe i SS SE. al a — THE EXPERIMENT iat Tm 1 late-maturing, —- 5 Vol 5 A Short Summary of the Principal alized, would be to so shape and di- rect the agricultural development of ~~ sweeping change in cattle ranching ~ more, this work, having demonstrat- College Station, Texas, Soturdes, January 1 10, Number 86 STATION SOLVES | TEXAS PROBLEMS Accomplishments of the Texas Experiment Station BY A. B. CONNOR. The Texas Agricultural Experi- ment Station was established in 1888. Its establishment and perma- nent operation contemplated the de- yelopment of information from ve- gearch pertaining to. the agri- cultural resources of the State. The basic nature of its work, it was re- these resources that the accrued beun- efits would be shared by all, as a mat- ter of common knowledge. How well the station has perform- ed its work is testified to, in part at least, by the rapid agricultural de- velopment which has taken place in Texas in a short period of years, and the fact that our agriculture is now launched on a sound and permanent basis. Much of the work done by the Sta- tion, and many of the fundamental principles evolved, have been assim- ilated and used by the people, and consequently the source has remain- ed more or less obscure. It remains a fact, however, that many of our agricultural industries have been placed on sound footings solely by virtue of the work of the Texas Sta-- tion. The development of the cattle in- dustry of the State, involving a from the general and common use of the “longhorn’ to the almost exclus- ive and much more profitable use of improved breeds, has been made pos- sible solely by the work of the Sta- tion in its study of Texas Fever, re- sulting in the perfection of methods of immunizing and thereby safely in- troducing and using better beef cat- tle. This change from the “long- horn” to the admirable beef type of today, made possible by the Station, has been worth millions of dollars to Texas, and has made it possible for the State to retain the supremacy in beef cattle production. Further- ed the immensely increased profits from the use of improved beef cat- tle, resulted in, and was the basis of, the Federal Government’s Nation- wide tick eradication campaign, di- rected against the cattle fever tick in the Southern States. Another outstanding and extreme- ly valuable accomplishment of the Station is the work in crop improve- ment and crop introductions. Only a few years ago, practically two- thirds of the State, or more than 200,000 square miles, was consider- ed primarily to be only grazing land. The crops in use at that time were unimproved and ill-adapted, being rank growers, and (Continued on Page 4) REGISTRATION COMPLETED FOR | TRACTOR COURSE Telegrams and Letters Received on the Last Day for Kegistration Are Turned Down Registration for the Eight Weeks Course in Automobiles, Tractors, and Farm Machinery was completed Wednesday and work was begun by schedule according to D. Scoates, | Professor of Agricultural Engineer- | ing. On the last day numerous let- ters and telegrams were received from all over the country requesting admittance to the school but they were too late. One man who applied for entrance gave his age as fifty- six. Professor Scoates accepted his application and informed him that he might report at the beginning of the next period of the course. In com- menting on the letter he said that he had experience with such aged students before and had found them of good type. Several applications from lads only sixteen years of age were also turned down, it being specified that the entrance age would be eighteen. This course as now planned and being conducted will continue end- lessly and it is divided into periods of two weeks = duration. Twenty students are to be admitted biweek- ly. Thus at the end of eight weeks eighty will have been enrolled and the first twenty will be graduated | making way for an equal number. Each class will be instructed separ- | ately on some points, but all will be | assembled for lectures ana demon- strations. Seventeen of the twenty who will be allowed entrance at the beginning of the second period, January 21, have already been accepted and designat ed. This record of registration seems to be ample assurance of the per- petuity of this plan of enrollment. The building in which practice work is conducted has been arranged into departments where the different parts of unassembled machines are placed in convenient positions for inspection and work. There is a chassis department, a trouble shoot- ing department, ignition department, mechanical department and others for the separate study of each unit. The department has for practice work in this course ten tractors of different size and design and a num- ber of automobiles and single cyl- inder gas engines. Some of these be- long to the College but the greater number are here on consignment from the factories which manufac- ture them. This is a great benefit, mostly from the fact that old models are taken back and later ones pro- vided as they are placed for sale on the general market. Several new models are in transit now and are ex- pected to arrive soon. The factor- ies also send demonstrators with | devised to gather their machines, expert in running, MADE CHAIRMAN OF A COMMITTEE ON TERMINOLOGY Will Prepare a Small Dictionary on | Terminology of Farm Manage- ment Accounting and Sociology H. M. Eliot, Chief of the Division | of Farm and Ranch Economies has received notice of his appointment as chairman of the standing mittee on Terminology of the Am- ervican Farm Economic Association | formerly the American Farm Man- agement Association. The other two members are L. C. Gray of the U. S. Dept. of Agricul- ture and O. R. Johnson of Columbia, Mo. It will be the first duty of the com- mittee to prepare reports on termin- ology of farm management , accounting, rural sociology and others, and to present such at the! next meeting of the American Farm Economie Association which very probably will be in conjunction with the American Economic Association next January. For that the committee will compile a small dictionary of terminology of farm management. Mr. Eliot mentioned a method to be used in compilation of writing to all agricultural colleges of the United States asking for definitions used in jrelation to farm management and branches of that science. Other methods of course will have to be such knowledge, and these will have to be formulate by the committee. a a FEDERAL STUDENTS TO ORGANIZE IN BRYAN There will be a meeting Saturday night at 7:30 of the Federal Stu- dents in the Carnegie Library at Bryan for the purpose of becoming better acquainted not only among themselves but with the people of Bryan. Married students are re- quested to bring their wives, and single ones their lady friends. This will be a business meeting. All Federal students whether resid- ing in town or on the Campus are invited. ee ef ENTOMOLOGIST IN HOUSTON H. J. Reinhard of the Division of Entomology, Experiment Station is attending a conference on pink boll worm prevention being held in Hous- ton this week. The conference was called by W. D. Hunter Federal Agent in charge of the pink boll worm eradication. and repairing them, which is a sec- ond great advantage. S. D. Snyder is in charge of the course and he is assisted by H. D. Gibson and E. M. King. com- | farm | definiteness it might be said | SCHOOL BOOKS T BE DRAMATIZED IN PICTURE FILM | W. A. Broyles Urges The Study of | Visual Instruction as Timely for Public School Training W. A. Broyles, Associate Professor of Agricultural Education calls at- tention to a course to be offered in the department of Vocational Teach- [ing the second semester which he thinks should be attractive to the members of the faculty in that it will enable them to visualize the work in their departments. This course will be known as No. | 418, Visual Instruction, and its pur- pose will be to study the theory and principle of visual instruction, and to acquire skill in the preparation land use of material for visual in- | struction. The course will the designing and making of charts, | use of the camera, making negatives land lantern slides, coloring lantern | slides, use of stencils, mimescope, j and projection lantern, operation and | care of motion picture machines, graphic representation of data and ‘the use of the cartoon. will also be given in preparation and hibits. It is a very timely subject of study because of the present movement over this country to introduce just such methods of teaching into the schools and "colleges of this country, the plan being to visualize all school books. Mr. Broyles has on his desk now a letter from one firm in the United States stating their intention to make a moving picture film of every school book put out by a cer- tain publisher. He thinks it would be an act of progressiveness on the part of any faculty member to take up this work at this time and prepare for the valizing, and dramatizing in picture form. Along with this course another very distinctive one will be given for preparing demonstration agents for work in the is the only course of its kind offered in. the College. This course is intended to give a omies, and to give practice that will the topics discussed are: Evolution of extension in agriculture and home economics; general organization for extension; methods of extension; farm demonstration work; junior ag- ricultural clubs; extension by ex- perts; extension by railroads, and commercial companies, and the train- ing of extension workers. Agricul- tural Education 301, 802, and 403 are important to give preparation for this course, but they are not prerequisites. Lectures, assigned work of this course. include: Instruction display of materials for fairs and ex practice of teaching by charting, vis- Extension Service. It survey of the whole field of exten- ~~ sion in agriculture and home econ- © prepare for actual field work. Among i readings and problems constitute the
