Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-04-22
o. A. c. Notes.
P. L. Adams is again in school

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Ralph Hawley has been quite
sick with quinsy and form of rheu-
matisn, and will not be in school
any more this year.
H. v. Tartar, 'O2 made short
visit to o. A. c. this week. His
business brings him often to the
o. A. c. laboratories where he first
made HIS.
J. D. Wells has moved from his
country home north of town, to q
house just north of the court house.
The place he left is now occupied
by A. N. Harlan.
The freshman class elected B. III.
Greenhaw captain of the freshman
track team. They are going to try
to carry off the honors at the class
field meet April 30. They will do
it, too, if the other classes do not do
better work than they have been
doing.
Marion Wood, who used to be
foreman on the o. A. G. farm, but
who has been connected with the
Idaho Experiment Station for the
past year or two, visited the Col
lege farm Wednesday. He has re-
Gently arrived from Idaho and has
bought a farm across the river in
Linn county.
One team is busy blowing in the
orchard and the other is preparing
the field for spring crops, while the
hired men are planting the expert
mental plats. One small field has
been planted in vetch in hills two
feet apart each way, another is
being planted to long rows of differ
ent varieties of oats, wheat, and
barley.
C. L. Shepard, 'O4, will leave to-.
day for Portland. Starting from
there he will visit the colleges of
the Willamette Valley, working up
delegations for the students con-
ference to be held at Gearhart from
May % to June s, under direction
of the international committee of
the Y. NJ. C. A.
The plants as we'll as the ami
mails are alive on the farm, for the
fruit buds are bursting and the or
chard is already white with bloom.
The alfalfa field that did SO we'll
last year is shoe-top high already
and the Turkestan which did not
do much last year is already twelve
or fourteen inches high. But it is
far outstripped by the vetch and
rye, which they will begin cutting
for soiling purposes next week.
The debate on woman's suffrage,
between the Amicitian and the
Jefersonian societies, which was to
have taken place in the chapel Sat-
urday night, has been postponed
till next Monday night. Everyone
should hear that debate as it is be-
tween two of the strongest societies
in the scnool, and is on subject
that is before the American people
for settlement.
Senator Booth, who so generously
gave the freshmen class in Breeds
Of Stock" trip to six or eight OF
the best stock farms in Oregon last
year told DR.. Withycombe last week
that he wanted to give this years
class similar trip. They are about
twenty five in the class this year
and they are very jubilant over the
three or four days they are to have
in the latter part of May.
While Professor Cordley was in
Southern Oregon he sprayed one
orchard with fourteen different spray
preparations. All of them were
for the San Jose scale. He says
that is the worst fruit tree pest we
have and he is seeking a remedy
for it.. He also made an exami-
nation of some prune tree roots from
The Dalles and found that they
were infested with crown borers.
They cause a large fungus growth
on the roots and the fruit becomes
small and worthless. People around
The Dalles are very much interest
ed in finding a remedy for this very
injurious pest of fruit trees
Everything around the O. A. C.
The little pigs may be seen at
all times of day busily chasing
their shadows or tails around the
straw pile or around the corner of
the piggery. And if you will be
patient and watch a little while
you will see the earth rising in
little mountains in the very
places where they are not wanted.
When you see this you will know