The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-12
Breeding Wheat by Selection and Cross Fertilization

grains the student receives practical
suggestions for the best methods of
harvesting, shocking, stacking and
storing cereal grains. The choice, man
agement and care Of farm machinery
is set forth with frequent illustrations.
The final subjects introduced in the
last half of the third year are civics or
geometry plant propagation, dressing
and curing meats, feeding of farm ami
mails, and soils and fertilizers
Through civics the student learns
much that every progressive farmer
should know of politics and govern
ment Instruction is given, as well, in
commercial law, and in surveying. The
dressing and curing of meats is illus
trated by two weeks practice in the
actual work. Plant propagation COM
prises seed testing and propagation by
seed, cuttings. grating and budding.
Feeding of farm animals directs the
choice and compounding of rations that
the future farmer may feed to best adj
vantage horses, beef CATTLE sheep and
swine. Upon the subject of soils and
fertilizers lessons are given in every
practical application.
Not few of the boys studies, such
as agricultural botany, drawing, music,
English physical culture, fruit growing,
dairy husbandry, vegetable gardening,
residents of ladies' hall are kept busy
with their special courses. The first
year they learn laundering, sew
ing, social culture, and cooking; the
second year. household art and home
management; the third year, home
economy, domestic chemistry and do
nestle hygiene.
Debating societies, Christian associa-
tons, both for young men and young
women, and a course of lectures and
concerts by popular entertainers are
among the subsidiary means presented
for rounding out the culture Of the stu
dents.
So successful has the school proved
itself that its graduates now number
more than 600. They are practical
farmers and they love farm life. They
go back gladly to the farm and demon
strate eagerly the value of their knOwl-
edge. On more than one occasion a
farmer has written to the faculty that
his son, after graduating, had saved
enough money on the farm in one year
to pay the whole cost of his training
at the school.
AS these graduates increase and
spread their knowledge, agriculture in
the Northwest may yet be transformed
through the fundamentally of the
Minnesota school.
> Many other important divisions of
the agricultural department or the
state university cannot be touched upon
in this sketch of the school of agricul-
ture. The intermediate year is one of
such divisions, the short course for
farmers another the dairy school a
third, and the college of agriculture an
important fourth. The department CO.
operates with the state department Of
education in introducing the study of
agriculture and of home economics in
rural schools throughout the state. The
state experiment station, which gives
no direct instruction to students, per-
forms, nevertheless, a work of great
value and high reputation.
AT the head of the school is DR.. Cyrus
Northrop president of the state uni
versity, and William M. Liggett, dean
and director of the department of agri-
culture. The faculty of the school con-
sists of twenty-five instructors and
five assistants.