The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-09-21

| of fruits and seeds for tests in different
| portions of the state. We receive con
| tributions of seeds and plants from the
| forty-four other experiment stations
and when found to be profitably ad-
apted to Oregon we disseminate them
throughout the state free"
What does it cost student. PreSi-
| dent Bloss, to attend the college a
| year,
"Inclding his board, room, light, heat,
clothing, washing, books, and tuition,
for our school year of forty weeks,
$156.
How many students is the college
| equipped to accommodate"
1--WE can comfortably accumulate
$50. We cannot now place any esti-
mate upon what our number this year
will be, but it should be from 275 to
325."
Sum up for us. president, briefly,
the qualifications of an average grad
uate?'
"Well. he will be prepared actively
to enter any business industry of the
state, agricultural, Horticultural or me-
chanical; he would be qualified to en-
ter any of the professional schools It
is not our intention. however. to make
professional men. Our purpose is to
prepare men and women for the bus
mess industries of life, and thus pro-
mote the interests oft he state"
AGRICULTURAL.
We found Prof. II. L. French, pro-
fcssor of agriculture, at his desk III
the midst of his preparation for the
state fair exhibit. but he very kindly
gave hiss attention to "ye scribe" for
two and half hours, which it required
to answer all the little questions we
had to ask and to show us through his
department. 1t took us to the college
barn; experiment plats of corn, pota-
toes. clOvers, peas; vetcheS and many
other plants and series of experiments
now in progress. The farm consists
of 145 acres, 20 of which are devoted
to plant experiments. The barn is Il
model enc: modernis earinped shrolgh-
out Tread power is furnished for run
ming the feed mill, forage cutter,
cleaning mill and other machinery nee
essary in a barn. Two large silos,
with a combined capacity of 13O tons
of silage will be filed about the first
of October "We have, said the pro-
fessor. twenty acres of ensilage corn,
and it will yield ordinarily ten tons per
acre, a ton of which is equal to one
third of a ton of best clover hay. Corn
silage is almost complete food for
any kind of stock, and costs about soc
per ton to put in the silO. and taken
along with straw. stock do well upon
it during the winter season, say from
November to the first of July.
"No, a farmer in Oregon cannot af-
ford to pasture his stock in the winter.
He Injuries his land by tramping, and
it takes the six months of summer for
stock to gain the loss of three months
winter. We keep some twenty five
head of stock ON the farm, and five
head of horses. We have four head of
full blooded Ayrshire: four full-blood
ed Short Horns and two Jerseys. We
are breeding up a lot Of dairy stock,
with which to run modern equipped
dairy next year
All the stock yards and enclosures
were visited and they We're all in re-
markably good condition.
"Yes" said Prof French 1--WE have
conducted series of pig feeding ex-
periments. as we stood looking into
the pens. land with satisfactory re-
suits too. We have proven beyond
a doubt that pigs can be fattened on
wheat quite profitably. We get twelve
pounds of pork from one bushel of
wheat, on an aveage. A farmer can
feed his wheat to pigs and net so to Is
cents per bushel for his wheat, so you
can see that it does not pay to sell
grain-in fact we don't sell our grain
at all We have fed our horses on
wheat for some time, and have good
results too We have our wheat
chopped with oats and feed it. You
see if farmer gets only fair price
for his produce by feeding it to his
stock it is much better to feed it, for
then he has the nutriciOus food pro-
ducing substances left on the farm,
instead of shipping it to Liverpool. A
very small per cent. of the plant pro-
ducing substances is taken out of the
grain or other food by the animal. l
have just bought six head of stores
and with them I expect to carry on
similar experiment as to profitabiy
feeding them wheat to fatten them"
BY this time we had reached the
potato plats, and we chased the pro-
fessor along pretty close with our pen
Gil while he said:
1--WE have tested some four hundred
varieties of potatoes, and we are grow
ing now, 100 varieties. Out of this
EfE~s, ~ I "a