Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-22
Board of Trustees of State
College Refuses to Recon
slider Its Action
WERE NOT PREFERRED
Board Decides That Inasmuch as No
Charges Were Filed There Was No
Occasion for Giving a Hearing
Chair of Farm Mechanics Added to
the Curriculum.
Special to mes-Republican.

special 10 Times RepuDlican.
Ames, Aug. 22.-At a recent meet
| ing of the board of trustees, Professor
c. j. Zintheo was elected to the chair of
farm mechanics in the Iowa State Col
lege This work has recently been or
ganized as a branch of the agronomy
! department of the division of agricul-
ture, and 1t is intended to cover in
struction in all kinds of farm machin-
cry and appliances, including land
drainage. rural telephones, farm water
supply and the various means of OBJ
tanning power for operating farm ma
chinery. such as electric motors, gaso-
line engines steam engines. water pow
er and wind power. A three story, fire.
proof building, 60x1oO feet, is now be-
ing erected as laboratory for conduct
ing this work.
Iowa mas, according to the last cen
sus, S55,00o,000 invested in farm ma
chinery, a greater amount than any
other state in the union, and the annua!
expenditure for farm machinery ana
mechanical appliances used on the
farm amounts to not less than $4,000
600. This expenditure might be greatly
reduced by more intelligent use ana
better preservation and care OF the ma
chinery.
Professor Zintheo was born in
France, of French and Swedish par
entage, thirty-four years ago. At five
years of age he moved with his par
ents To Sweden, where he was brought
up on a farm and obtained a common
school education. He served an APP
premiership as blacksmith and horse
sheer until he came to America at II
years of age. He spent the first seas
on on the Bonanza wheat farm in
North Dakota. Afterwards he attended
the public school and high school at
Fargo. N. D., for five winters. and was
employed during the summers in the
Northern Pacific railroad shops, AT
Fargo. After graduating from the
Fargo high school. he went to the Uni
versity of Minnesota, where he com
pletei a course in general science and
electrical engineering. and specialized
in modern languages. During Saca
tons he was employed as binder eXper;
by the Mccormick Harvester Com
pany, and remained with that company
some time after graduating from the
of Minnesota, in 1897. Dur
ing the winter OF '9S and '99, he took
a course of expert training in the fac
tory of the Deering Harvester Com
pany at Chicago, and the following
season was sent out by them as calam-
ity expert, taking up the most difficult
cases in operating harvesters, and from
May to September covered the fielo
from Texas to the Dakotas and the !!
territories of Canada.
In 1900 he was sent to Paris to put
up the Deering exhibit at the Paris eX-
position. From Paris he went to ST. |
IBERIA to introduce the Deering Com
pany's machinery. From Siberia he
went to Argentine Republic, South
America, for the same purpose. on his
return to Europe in the spring OF 1901,
he visited most of the European coun-
tries in the interest of the Deerins
company, going as far east as south
ern Russia, and Manchuria, and the
Chinese boundary. On his return to
America he accepted a position as man
ager of foreign trade for the American
Grass Irvine Company. of ST. Paul and
was shortly afterwards elected pro-
fessor of farm mechanics in the North
Agricultural College where he
organized that department and es-
tabfished very successful course
Professor Zintheo will take up his work
at Ames at the opening of the college
year, Sept l. Many inquiries have been
received concerning this work in the
Iowa State College and several stu
dents have already been enrolled from
foreign countries.