Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-10-17
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Fire Display From aFFiue Institution
at the Fair Grounds.

at the Fair Grounds.
The exhibit brought up to the fair
ny the Agricultural college, at Mesilla
Park. Ia one Of the most impressive
displays Of practical educational work
that has ever been shown In thfs city.
A reporter Tor The Citizen made a
careful inspection Of the exhibit today
and came away strongly impressed
with its many instructive and interest
ing features. No can look over
the hig college exhibit in Exhibition
han without realizing the powerful
work for good which that institution
is doing for the young people of the
territory as well as the work being
done by the experiment station for the
public generally.
The agricultural interests of the col
lexe and the Mesilia valley adjacent
thereto have sent up a display of ap-
rles that will run the San Juan county
exhibit very close for the quality of
its fruit. It ia late In the season for
most Of the fruits grown in the Mesiila
valley and the heavy crop Of peaches.
pears. and grape that has been gath
cred down in the garden spot are not
represented In the fair exhibit to any
extent. The display of preserved
fruits, however, from the college,
shown in exhibition hall, is worth the
admission to the fair grounds alone to
zee. The fruits look even more attrac-
tive than II fresh and the method en-
ployed by the college preserves these
beautiful effects indefinitely. There is
a large number of tall glass jars. each
containing a different variety of fruit
or vegetable and in each case the jar
is ticketed with the complete data of
the growing and cultivation of the
fruit. As an educational display of
interest to the fruit growers of the ter
ritory this feature is of immense
value.
The college down at Mesilla Park be-
Meves in practical work; 1t gives no
classical courses, teaches no Greek
and but lu,le Latin. It goes on the
idea of learning ly Going" This
policy of the Institution is well illus
trated in the exhibit which it makes of
students from the engineering depart
meut actually at work. Two students
arc to be seen at carpenters benches
doing the actual class work which the
department assigns TO all students en-
rolled therein. Every student in the
department has the use Of q carpen-
ter's bench with complete equipment
exactly as shoxn, at Exhibitian hall.
The engineering department has also
display of each kind of work done by
the students, including forge work,
machine work, wood turning. n
bench work, Is we'll as a,beautiiul dis
play OF mechanical drawings. The re-
porter, was suppressed with the good
work done by at least n student,
wAoEe kcme is in this city.
The important work lone by the col
lege in pumping from wells for irriga-
tion, about which SO much has been
recently said in the press, is repre-
scented graphically 4incthe exhibit. A
pump typical Of the style used most
xuccessfuIiy Ia the, Experimental test
Ia on display and q large chart graph
ically sets forth results secured. 1t
was found that the work and cost of
~irrigating from wells was much less
that had ever been supposed possible.
The college has successfully thrown
q continuous stream of over 1000 gal
Ions q minute from a six-inch well not
nifty feet deep. With n pump throw
ing a smaller stream, sos gallons a
minute were thrown for a continuous
run of thirty hours. The cost of irri-
eating was found to be not more than
6S cents per acre for an irrigation of
three inches, This particular display
il accompanied by photographs show
ing the pump in action and anyone
who inspects these and notices the i'm
mems body of water gushing forth
from six and seyen-inch pipes will for
get for the moment that he is in the
arid region.
The department of stenography and
typewriting Is again to the front, as il
usually is with an effective display oil
students work. II shows typewriters
Of different styles which are used in
its work at the college and displays on
the wall some yonderfully neat orna'
mental work done by its students. At
tention is called to the work of the
department in training st~enographers
In both English and Spanish. in which
work II has been the pioneer In the
United States and has attracted many
students who have come from nearly
every state in the union. These stud
ents, after becoming competent in botf
English and Spanish. have gone tC
various places in Mexico, the Philip
pines, and Porto Rico, as well as thu
United States. to fill responsible ant
high salaried positions.
An interesting feature OF the expert
ment station work as shown in tn
college display Is the exhibit of a com
plete field outfit for the analysis o
soils In the field. This comes from tn
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