anid ~ THE DALY BULLETIN ~ College Station, Texas, St April 17, 1920. Nawmber 170 0 TEXAS FARM BOYS WILL MAKE TOUR SEVERAL STATES Will be Given Opportunity to see Best Agricultural Regions of the United States. The Extension Service of the A. and M. College and the Texas Cham- ber of Commerce will jointly conduct during August an educational and in- vestigational tour in a special train of approximately 150 Texas farm boys through the best agricultural regions of the Central West, North- ern and Southern States. The object of this tour is to give representatives of the rising gener- ation of Texas farmers an oppor- tunity to see and study at first hand the best methods and practices of the most successful farmers in the United States, and to fix their minds high standards and right ideals of country life and at the same time spread abroad in the land a proper under- | standing of the resources and great- ness of Texas and the fine progressive | spirit of Texas people. The boys to be taken on this tour] will be selected by competitive oxiini- | ination from more than 30,000 mem- | bers of Boys’ Agricultural Clubs af- | filiated with the Extension Service | of the Texas A. and M. College. The expenses of the trip will be| met by the sale of tickets to be sold | to Chambers of Commerce, individuals | and communities to be competed for | by club boys. Present plans are for the special train to leave the A. and M. College at the close of the Farmers’ Short Course and Agents meeting. The price of the tickets will be $300.00 which will include all expen- ses of travel, subsistence and sight- seeing and other expenses incident to carrying out the trip. Ten percent or $30.00 must be paid in cash at time of purchase and the balance on or before June 15th. At the close of the tour, an itemized financial statement will be made and audited and any surplus funds remaining on hand will be returned to the pur- chasers of tickets pro rata. Chambers of Commerce, business organizations, individuals or com- munities may offer tickets as a prize to be competed for in a county, com- munity, or trade territory, or they may be offered for special activities such as pig raising, peanut growing, etc. Prize trips may be offered to] be competed for by club boys from | the State at large in the various lines | of livestock judging. All boys who reside in the county | or district where a prize trip is be- | ing offered, provided they are ten and | not over eighteen years of age Jan- uary 1, 1920, and are enrolled for the year of 1920 prior to May 15th in any of the agricultural clubs organ- ized by the Extension Service of the A. and M. College of Texas are eli- (Continued on Page 4) Great Quantities of Fruits ondles egetables Are Grown On and About the Campus Yearly The Two Departments of Horticulture and Agronomy Cultivate Orchards, Gardens, Vineyards and Farms on Which are Grown Numberless Varieties of Fruits, Vegetables and Field Crops. The Horticultural Department and | Horticul:ure. the Agronomy Department are both | As professor or horticulture Mr. divisions of the School of Agricul- | | Kyle has in the many years of his | ture of which E. J. Kyle is Dean. | connection with the department | E. J. Kyle is also Professor of Horti- | grown and improved orchards, and | 1s | gardens so that now all varieties of [sor of pomology (fruit growing) and | fruit trees and all kinds of vegetables | | landscape art and A. T. Potts is pro- Dr.id. 0. Professor of Agronomy. culture and Morgan In connec "| adapted to Southern and Southwest- ern United States are growing here hundred students in horticulture and co that students coming from any agronomy these two departments | section of this vast region may get have ninety or a hundred acres of | technieal and practical training in land on and about the Campus in |the growing of those fruits and veg- fruit trees, vegetable gardens, ers, berry vines and field crops. tion with the instruction of several | flow- | | etables that have a commercial val- Lae in their section of the country. The Department of Horticulture is in four divisions of fruit growing. flori-culture vegetable gardening, | and landscape art. F. W. Hensel is associate profes- fessor of vegetable gardening. For practice work with the stu- dents the department has two or- chards. One of about eight acres just west of the Bachelor Quarters and east of the H. & T. C. railroad. In this orchard are varieties of pe- cans, peaches, plums, pears, apples, figs, cherries, quince, per- Part of College Pecan Grove simmons and nectarines, blackberries and dewber- ries. Directly across the rail- road just west- of this or- chard is another six acre tract in peach orchard and garden. The orchard of three acres consists of only those varieties of peaches that have a commercial val- ue in this territory, consist- ing mainly of Elberta and Mamie Ross and it is oper- ated on a commercial basis. Adjoining this orchard on the south is a vegetable garden with many different varieties of vegetables; and a rose garden containing about eight hundred var- ieties of roses which have “wd . f ¥ V No NE J X 4 CRA XE been planted in cooperation with the American Rose So- ciety. Aside from the val- ue of this rose garden for the instruction of students it enables the department to have correct information on those roses which make good growth in this part of the country, thus making it available to those taking up the culture of roses. Another vegetable garden of about five acres is culti- Agronomy Field Laboratory vated by the department on a plot of ground just north of the Steam Plant. Al- College Plum Orchard in Bloom. Showing cover crop of oats which prevents washing of soil, leaching of plant food and adds humus when turned under. though tomatoes are the leading crops in these gar- dens other important Crops of radishes, beets, onions Irish and sweet potatoes, cabbage, okra, egg plant and beans are grown in large quantities and sold to the Mess Hall through the spring and early fall. Citrus Fruirs. Citrus fruits, like grape fruit, oranges and lemons, must be wintered under glass. So one half of a $13,000.00 greenhouse is being partly used for this purpose. The trees grow and produce here, practically normal making growth.