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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
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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.
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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.
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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