Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-07-13

as the food OF infants, can we DO too
particular In planning the rooms where
the cows must spend so mueh OF their
time? Every week brings visitors from
other states to. the new dairy barn to
study its features
Montana Cattle King rs Student
Thus far we have made no mention
of the educational work at our agrieui-
tural college. This is second in impor-
lance only t, investigation. Professor
Henry showed us list of 27I young
men who attended the various courses
of instruction in the agricultural coll
lege during last year. While Wiscon-
sin furnished most of the pupils, six
teen states were represented. Illinois
is the largest outside patron, but dis
tant states. Oregon. Alabama, South
Carolina and New Jersey send thei
representatives. Nor are all the pupils
young men. Last winter a Montana
ranchman, desiring change. took COM
Portable quarters in Madison tor his
wife and daughter and was a faithful
attendant on the short course lectures
taking his place beside farm hands
whose only source of income was their
monthly wages while for him thou
sands of cattle We're harvesting the
natural grasses of the Montana plains
Some of Professor Henry's students
are retired merchants who having made
a competence desire To retire TO the
country and first seek more definite
knowledge in agricultural matters.
Most of the students. however, are
farmers sons from the parental home
or farm hands who are ambitious to get
on in the world.
AT the close of our last term" said
Profes sor Henry, I'VE hired out fifty
one young men on farms in Wisconsin
and other states. sending them as far
as Texas and California on the west and
Massachusetts on the east
VanderbiIt's Farm Has One.
William X Vanderbilt has one of our
students on his Idle Hour Farm on
Long island, and another, young man
from Appleton, Wis, has charge of the
herd of George Vanderbilt on his great
estate at Biltmore. N. c. Mr.. C. l.
Hood, the sarsaparilla man, is delighted
with one of our boys who has now been
his herdsman for more than year.
Recently" said the professor. 1--WE sent
an IRISH boy from Waunakee. who had
trained with US two years. to work on
a farm in Massachusetts The other
day the proprietor wrote US that he had
now placed this young man in charge of
the whole establishment"
Are all the boys that come to you
able to find places" was asked. I'VE
have been able to find places for every
worthy young man who has studied
with US. and the call for them is far be-
yond our ability to supply. or course
most Of our young men have not the
education or the ability as yet to take
| charge OF large farm affairs and usual
| ly must seek employment on smaller
| farms where only one or two men are
employed. Even here, however. they
are paid from s. to $40 month more
wages than they would receive had they
| not studied with us. The older ones
with more experience, who have good
| judgment and ability to direct affairs,
are the ones we send out to fill higher
| positions"
In addition to the course in farming
known az the short course. there is also
| the dairy course, which prepares young
| mer for operating creameries and
| cheese factories Our dairy school,"
said Professor Henry, has now had
| total attendance of over 700 pupils, and
| about 300 of these can now be located
| in the creameries and cheese factories
of Wisconsin. Fromtfsir dairy school,
which was the first OF its kind in the
| United States, there have gone forth
| teachers to nearly every one of the
| dairy schools now established in other
states Wisconsin has about $500 cream
cries and cheese factories. and when
| one considers this fact. he will see that
| our dairy school has yet a large work
before it. Every year." said the pro-
| lessor. "since the Hiram Smith hall was
completed we have been obliged to turn
away applicants, as our number Is linn
| tied to strictly 100"
What "a Windmill Can Do.
In the physical department Professor
| F. H. King has just completed years
interesting study WITH 16-foot geared
windmill which rises from a tower on
one of the university buildings. This
windmill was allowed to pump water
| from a reservoir into a cstern where
| IL was measured and returned to the
reservoir again. 1t was found that in
| a years time the mill hal lifted a suffi-
eient quantity of water to height of
| ten feet to cover field Of seventy nine
acres one foot deep. These inyestiga-
| TONS with accompanying data are now
| being placed in bulletin form, which will
be sent to any one free of charge on
application. ORLANDO BURNETT.