The Minneapolis journal., 1901-10-04
FULL TO THE EAVES 100000 FOR LABOR
State School of Agriculture Never
So Full Before.
THE ATTENDANCE MAY REACH 600
New and Practical Work Has Been
Laid Out Along Many
Lines.

Laid Out Along Many
Lines.
Things are moving rapidly these days al
| the state school of agriculture. The
| school opened this week with a largely
/ increased attendance and the professors
| the principal, and the dean are busiel
| than ever before. The large attendance
calls for larger plans, that which would
suffice two years ago, in the last century
will not do for the twentieth century.
The classes are very large and the
| professors are finding 1t difficult to ac-
commodate them in some instances to the
best advantage. Professor Robertson, who
has heretofore conducted classes II
! physics and botany, will hereafter have
more time to devote to the former study
as w. A. Wheeler, former student of the
school, later graduate of the university
and for some time doing work under Pro-
fessor Macmillan, will now take the
| botany classes. He will also teach ento-
mology and zoology temporarily until 9
successor to the late Professor Lugger Is
! selected.
In the department devoted to manual
training the pressure for space has beer
great. The old accommodations were all
| too small for the crowds knocking al
! Professor DreWs door. The shop fol
home blacksmithing has been extended
some thirty feet, so there are now forty
| four forges, and these are all too close to
| one another. An elaborate direct draft
and exhaust system has been installed
so that the smoke from all the forges
is drawn off while the student is al
work, and, at the same time, his forge
/ hod ota Of oi inf q n a U
playing upon it and regulated at will by
simple slide device.
| The classes are now so large that an
| ampitheater has been built in one end
of the shop, one part of which. so great
is the pressure for space, is on hinges and
can be swung up to the ceiling when the
| FORCES are in use. In front of this ampi-
theater Professor Drew demonstrates be-
fore the class all the various kinds OF
work to be done by the students them
selves, the making of every manner ot
metal tool or implement in need about the
| farm.
Prof. Snyder's Practical Work.
| In the department of agricultural chem
istry, Professor Snyder is instituting q
new method, or, rather, an extension OF
the old method which has always been in
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| the more practical features. The aim is
so to train the students that they shall
more than ever before become interested
| in the practical side of the work. He viii
/ not be able to carry this out as it shoule
| be done until he is well established IL
| his new laboratory but in SO far as pos
sible with the present equipment, the
work will be pushed. He has lately pre-
pared a new text book or, rather, class
room book, which is used in the work. i
contains ample suggestions for the thor
| ough understanding Of the laboratory
how to handle the apparatus Of the
| laboratory with illustrations showing the
way of doing things, so that the students
may go to the right work without delays
| and with a clear idea of what they are
| doing.
Some very practical work is to be un'
| dertaken in the determination Of tht
/ value of foods in feeding stock. For ex'
ample, a student will be given COW ol
| a steer for experimentation. He will bC
| required to feed the animal for certain
| length of time, and to make careful anf
exhaustive report on just what the anlna
| gained, just what it lost of the food dur
ing the period. So in the matter O
testing of foods and grains for foods,-ht
will be given some actual work in inves-
tigation in order that he may see for him
self how to arrive at results.
The Library Built Up.
In still another and a very impor
tant way the school is this year in ad-
! vance Of it's former position. 1t has beer
| accommodating a library for a number O.
years and there are many valuable books
| bulletins from the government and iron
| other agricultural colleges and so on
These books have never before been prop
erly catalogued and arranged so that thu
students might receive the good from
them to which the students are entitled
Through an arrangement with the depart
ment Of agriculture in Washington al
| expert librarian has been sent out to the
school and Is now doing the careful an(
very important work of cataloguing. Miss
E. B. Hawkes., assistant to the chief IL
brarian of the department of agriculture
| Is the person doing thew ork This CO.
operation on the part Of the department
of agriculture is highly appreciated at the
school. The library which has hereto
fore been in a more or less chaotic state
will now be placed in first class shape
where everything in 1t will have place
and be Immediately available for SER
vice.
1 A new librarian has been secured. Miss
versity, and we'll equipped for the work
! Another new departure, under the direc-
tion Of Secretary wye, is the establish
ment of a lecture course which will be
opened on the evening of Oct. 10. 1t has
long been thought a desirable thing tC
have such a course so that, at mini
mum of expense the students should have
brought to them capital entertainments
which would in large measure render i
unnecessary for them to go away from
home for their entertainment, for home
in very large sense the school becomes
to the students from the farms of tht
northwest. The lectures will be giveI
in Pendergast hall. The price of tht
course tickets has been placed at a very
low figure, so cents, in order that the stu
dents may so far as possible be accom-
modated, without being taxed at the same
time. The admission to the individual
entertainments will be from 10 to Is cents
varying with the cost Of securing the var
ious attractions.
The preliminary course which was intro
duced last year was a very satisfactory
beginning and Secretary wye is counting
on large patronage this season. The
entertainments to be given during ths
season will be as follows:
Oct. 10, THE American Home" Rev
Thomas McClary; Oct. II, William Morris
or the Gospel of Work" Ebert Hubbard
Nov. 1, instrumental and vocal concert b
the Parker Concert company; Jan. 16, "valu
Of Life and Opportunity" Rev Norman
Bartlett; Feb. =. Hickory Farm" humor
Gus, Melvin Robinson; March sc Joy Q
Farm Life Rev. ]. M. Cleary.
At present fifty more students are en-
rolled in the school than ever befor,
at this period While the numbers hav,
been increasing, the accommodation
have not been correspondinglv enlarged