Barton County democrat., 1903-04-03

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| judging room, having seating
capacity of { so. A basement having
stalls for seyenty-hve head of cattle,
silos, motor room and granaries,
underlies the entire structure. Cost
of barn $40, 1882. The dairy barn is
40x175 feet, is fitted UP with modern
swinging stalls for eighty head of
cows. arranged in two rows with
driveway between; cost $4,000, and
the Horticultural barn is stone
building containing store room,
granary, and stables of several
horses. Cost of barn $500.
The College Library is one of the
most important supplements to class
room instruction. 1t consists of
25, 700 bound volumns and about
$4,000 pamphlets. The College
subscribes for the leading literary,
scientific and agricultural journals,
while the principal daily and weekly
papers of Kansas and many from
other states are received in exchange
for the College publications. All
these are kept on file for the use of
students and faculty. The College
has been designated as the depository
of the United States public documents
for the fifth congressional district of
Kansas and 5000 volumes have
already been received on this account.
Value of books and equipment
S4S,7O8.
The objects of the College are to
give a substantial education to men
and women; such general information
and discipline of mind and character
help to make intelligent and useful
citizens. 1t teaches the sciences
applied to the various industries of
farm, shop and home. 1t trains in
the elements of the arts themselves,
and imparts such skill as to make
the hands ready instruments of
thoughtful brains. The drill of
shops, gardens, farm and household
departments is made part of the
general education for usefulness and
insures a means of living to all who
make good use of it. At the same
time it. preserves habits of industry
and manual exertion, and cultivates
La taste for rural and domestic
pursuits.
The duty of the Experiment Station
of the College is to conduct researches
or verify experiments on the
physiology of plants and animals; the
diseases to which they are severally
subject, with remedies for same; the
chemical composition of useful plants
at their different stages of growth:
the comparative advantages of rotative
cropping as pursued under varying
series of crops, the capacity of new
plants or trees for acclimation; the
ANALYSIS of soils and waters; the
chemical composition of manures,
natural or artificial, with experiments
designed to test their comparative
effects on crops of different kinds;
the adaptation and value of grasses
for forage plants; the composition
and digestibility of different kinds of
food for domestic animals; tie
scientific and economic questions
involved in the production of butter
and cheese, and such other researches
or experiments bearing directly on
the agricultural industry of the
United States as may in case be
deemed advisable.
This institution is permanently
Industrial in its aims, methods and
tendencies. While the pure sciences,
mathematics and other studies are
vigorously taught, there is constantly
present practical atmosphere which
| incites the student to an application
of the principles taught, and thus
; lends interest and value to the work
In nearly every term the Student OF
the four courses gives one hour pei
day to industrial training of one kin d
or other. This awakens and deepens
) sympathy with industry and toll, i'm
presses the student with the essential
dignity of labor, thus educating to
ward the industries instead of away
from them, and lays good foundation
for a life work in industrial 2ano
technical lines. Even should students
not all return to the farm, the shop OF
: to housewifery, the wider knowledge
: afforded them and the broader
sympathies engendered cannot bu
sebound to their good, and to the
advantage OF society at large and the
industrial classes in particular.
Throughout the first year young
men take their industrial in the shops
They thus get familiarity with tool.
and methods which enables them te
do the wood and ironworks cornmonl,
needed on the farm, and which is use
ful TO all everywhere. The younS