The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-19
PROF. HAYES WORK:
He Secures the Return of Some Old
Instructors.
SECRETARY WILSON COMING
He Will visit the station on His
Trip to minneapolis in
July. =.
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! Washington, May 19,-Professor w. M.
Hayes of the Minnesota agricultural coll
lege returns home early this week after
spending several days in Washington and
New York on business in connection with
| the experimental station and rural school
work IN Minnesota. In an interview with
The journal correspondent he said that
the cooperative enterprises in which the
Minnesota stations and the United States
department Of agriculture are associated
are being enlarged, especially the work of
breeding and disseminating the seeds Of
| important varieties of crops. Secretary
| Wilson inspected the Minnesota expert
ments along this line in July last year,
and is expected again to visit the Mime
| sofa station when in attendance at the
| meeting of the National Educational As
ISOLATION in Minneapolis in July, where it
is probable he will give addresses on agri-
cultural education. ,
Professor John Thompson to Return.
Professor Hayes, while in Washington,
completed arrangements for the employ
ment of Professor John Thompson as as
sistant in the agricultural college and
station. Professor Thompson is a gradu-
ate OF the Minnesota college of agricul-
ture, and was for a time assistant chem
list in the experimental station. He is
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agriculture and chemistry at school for
colored people at Greensboro, N. c.. He
will assist in the cooperation expert
ments, and in teaching in the agricultural
college and school.
| c.. c. SchofieId Secured.
G. c. schofieId, also a graduate of the
Minnesota institution, and now an expert
in the Bureau of Plant Industry OF the
United States department of agriculture,
i returns to Minnesota with Professor
Hayes, while continuing his special stud
les in cereal production and in grading
and shipping grains, etc. He is now on a
special detail to study wild rice in north
ern Minnesota.
| More Experts Wanted.
Secretary Wilson and some OF the heads
OF the bureaus of the department Of agri-
culture are urging. more men for technical
1 and professional places Professor Whit
ney, chief of the bureau of soils, recently
employed w. c. Palmer, a. graduate and
| former assistant in the Minnesota col
lege. w. G. Smith, another graduate, for-
.merly in charge of the field management
experiments at Coteau Farm in Lyon
county, is also in Professor Whitney S
bureau.
Now that the school of agriculture or an
agricultural high school is to be estab-
lished as a feature in the states educa-
tional system, the authorities at st. An
/ thony Park are pushing the collegiate
| course. Graduates of the school are more
| freely encouraged than heretofore to con-
tinue in the state In addition to three
years. agricultural high school course
there will be four years collegiate
I course in the agricultural course.
! The Call for Teachers.
There is. an increasing demand for
! teachers, experimenters and editors who
| are graduates offs college of agriculture
and the attention of young men and young
women should be called to the opportuni-
ties offered.ss Graduates gnf the city high
| schools who have had practical farm ex-
! perience by first attending the agricul-
tural high school for year, can enter
the college of agriculture. Young men
who have graduated in scientific courses
in the university or in other colleges can
complete the required technical studies
| in the school and college Of agriculture
in two or three years The Minnesota In
stitution has good reputation at Wash
ington and in other agricultural colleges
and Dean Liggett receives many applica-
! tions to fill professorships and assistants
places for which he has no supply of pre-
| pared young men or women. In Wisconsin
several college graduates who were
brought up on farms and who are now
teaching in high schools, are arranging tc
attending their agricultural college, II
that state a number Of agricultural high
schools are being established in different
parts Of the state, and these young people
| propose to be ready to teach the farm
! youth those specialties needed in high
schools designed for those who are to be
4 farmers. =
The foregoing is the gist of the talk
which The Jo,urna correspondent,
had with Professor Hayes, who return.
| home with increased enthusiasm for his
work. The department of agriculture here
is very close to st: Anthony station work
and doing all it can to encourage it.
| w. W. Jermane