Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1905-02-08
University Notes.

university Notes.
TO DISCUSS AGRICULTURAL EXPERT
MENTS.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment
Association will be held at the
College of Agriculture OF the
University of Wisconsin on Feb. s
and 8. The ASSOCIATION, which was
organized three years ago, consists
of the students who have attended
any of the agricultural courses at
the University of Wisconsin, and
now has some 900 members, over
100 of whom are new members
added during the past year. The
general purpose of the association
is to have its members carry on
practical experiments in agriculture
under the direction of the universe
ty experiment station. During the
past year, for example, some 400 of
its members have been making a
series of interesting experiments in
growing of alfalfa under different
conditions in the various parts of
the state in which their farms are
located; and some extremely valu-
able results have been obtained.
Other experiments in growing
Swedish oats have proved both in
teresting and profitable to the
ceived from rs cents to $3.50 a
bushel for the Swedish oats, to be
used as seed. The association at
its coming meeting will award the
sum of 5000 in the form of small
premiums for the best grain and
forage grown in the course of these
experiments.
| The program of the meeting will
include discussions of the growing
OF rape, Swedish oats, alfalfa, and
corn: and papers on cooperation of
farmers, the Importance of the
United States Weather Bureau to
farmers, the experiments in the
prevention Of oat smut, the state
fair, and the study of agriculture in
the public schools. Among the
speakers are Hon. w. D. Hoard,
Prof. J. Q. Emery, Secretary John
M. True; and Professors Moore,
Humphrey, Whitson, Wool, Farr-.
ington, and Knapp, Of the College
Of Agriculture.
The Wisconsin State Horticultural
society will meet on February 10,
and the annual banquet of the
Short Course Alumni Association
will be held at the Hotel Sherlock
on February Z. AS these meetings
will take place just before the ten
days Farmers Course, February
14-24, and as special railroad rates
have been granted, it is expected
that all these meetings will be very
largely attended.
TO ENDOw UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
| WARD.
The Edwin Booth Dramatic
Society of the University of Wiscon-
sin will give the proceeds of its
annual performance, which this
year will be a presentation of
Pinero's comedy ''Trelawney of
the Well, to establish an endow-
ment fund for university ward in
the Madison city hospital. Most
large privately endowed universities
have free hospital or infrmary &C
commodations for students in case
of sickness, but no such provision
has ever been made by the state for
the university; and as among 3, 500
students there are from time to
time cases Of illness requiring
hospital treatment, this student
dramatic organization has decided
to provide fund by which students
may be cared for under the most
favorable conditions possible at the
local hospital. AS the play is to be
given on Feb. IS, the evening fol-
lowing the Junior Promenade, it is
expected that there will be large
attendance, and that the perform
ance will net five or six hundred
dollars for the hospital fund.
STUDENTS EROM MEXICO.
Mr.. Lauro Lopez Mendez, of
Apam, H1dalgo, Mexico has just
entered the college of Engineering
of the University of Wisconsin. He is
the third student who has come to
the university from Mexico this
year; the others are William F.