The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-02-23
Attractions at the University for Round up
Week.

| Week.
| On account of the fifth annual round
up of the Michigan State Farmers In
stitute to be held in Ann Arbor, Tues
day. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
February 81 and 20 and March l and 2,
all the railroads in Michigan will sell
round trip tickets to Ann Arbor and
return at half price. These tickets
will be on sale Monday. February 20,
and will be good for return up TO aud
including March 8.
DR.. Paul G. Freer, professor of gen.
eral chemistry in the University of
Michigan will give on Wednesday even
ing, February %, lecture on Liquid
Air and the Liquefaction of Gases before
the fifth annual round up. The lecture
will be illustrated with stereopticon
views, and experiments will be per-
formed with liquid air manufactured by
the liquid air plant belonging to the
University. This lecture will be open
only to the guests of the institute from
outside of Ann Arbor.
The Beal Steere geological collection
in the museum of the University of
Michigan was made by DR.. Joseph b
Steere in the years 1870 to 1876 and
comprises numerous corals, shells. in
sects, birds, and mammals from South
America, China, Formosa, the Philip
pines, and the Moluccas.
The art museum contains the entire
collection of the original casts of the
works of the late Randolph Rogers.
They number more than one hundred
and were given to the state of Michigan
for the University museum by the
sculptor.
Among the interesting exhibits in the
museum of the University of Mic nigan
is totemic column taken from house
in deserted village of the Tlingt lu
dians near Cape Fox, Alaska. The CO.
umn was in front of one of the posts
which supported the roof of the house.
The carving and painting represent
bear sitting upon its launches and
grasping with its fore paws the arms of
a man, the lower part of whose body
has disappeared into the animals
The Glee Club will sing at the Tues
day evening meeting and Professor
Stanley will render several selections on
| the Columbian ORGAN.
The great pipe organ which was on
exhibition at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition in Chicago in 1893, is among
the objects of interest at the University
of Michigan The organ is at the back
of the platform in University hall. 1t
has four manuals, 1901 pipes and 116
stops. The largest pipe is thirty-two
feet long Electric motors aggregatipg
seven horse power are used TO fill the
bellows. The connections of the keys
with the pipes is electric In the upper
northeast corner of the large hall is an
echo gan, which is operated from the
key board of the large instrument.
DR.. H. w. Wiley. chief chemist of
the United States department of agricul-
ture, Washington, d. c., will be in attend.
ance at the roundup on Thursday. In
the forenoon he will hold conference
with the beet sugar manufacturers OF
the state. In the afternoon Professor
l.. H. Bailey, of Cornell University, will
speak on the subject, New Solutions to
Old Soil Problems; DR.. Wiley will talk
on Lessons of the Year in Sugar Pro.
duction, and Eugene Fifield. OF Bay
City, on The Present Status OF the
Sugar Industry in Michigan. In the
evening DR.. Wiley will give talk or
The Manufacture of Sugar from Beets