Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-02-24
University Notes.
NORTH WING TO BE BUILT.

NORTH WING TO BE BUILT.
The university board of regents has
issued call for proposals for the con-
structlOn of the north wing of Uni
Versity hall. The lists will be closed
Monday, Feb. 10.
OVER 1000 STUDENTS.
Over 1000 students are enrolled in
the various departments of the agri-
cultural college of the University of
Wisconsin this year, and the en-
thusiasm for the study of problems in
scientific farming is wide spread
through the state. The third annual
ten days farmers course in agriculture
closed Friday with an enrolment of
$40 farmers, an increase of sixty-fve
per cent over last years enrolment.
which was 227. There are 322 short
course students, 1872 in the winter
dairy course, 136 in the long course,
sixteen in the summer dairy course
and six students doing graduate Iwork,
making total of 1,o17 enrolled in the
agricultural college this year.
This immense increase in the
popularity Of the agricultural courses
JustlHes in a marked manner the
faith which President Van Hise of the
university and Dean Henry of the
agricultural college have had in the
appreciation of the farmers of the
sta for this sort of instruction. AS
Few OF the men engaged in agricultural
pursuits could spare the time from
their farms to attend the regular
courses, the ten days course was
established two years ago as a new
kind of university extension work.
The attendance this year was not
only large, but also enthusiastic, one
farmer attesting in conference to the
fact that he had 'got his moneys
worth" before he had been at the uni
VersIty forty EIGHT hours, and another
asserting that the information gained
in the course was worth $1OO to him.
A large number have signified their in
Gention of returning next year bring
ing their neighbors, for further in
strUction in special branches of farm
Industry.
NEW FEATURES.
e1itions to the daily programmes of
lectures and demonstrations this
year beside the courses given last
year. notably the stereopticon lecture
oy Professor 3. =. Sandsten OH the
planning and planting of home
grounds; the lecture by DR.. A. S.
Alexander on the different breeds of
draught horses; and Professor Far
ringtOn's lecture on the dairy COW
demonstration of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition. The horse breeding
Industry conference was the special
feature which attracted many visitors.
On this connection there we're exhibit
ed Today many hoted prize winning
horses from all over the state, includ-
Eng the champion six-horse team of
Percheron geldings shown by Fred
Pabst, which was prize winner both
at the worlds fair at st. Louis and at
the recent International Live Stock
exposition at Chicago. Models of
high types of draft horses were also
exhibited by Secretary of State Houser
and other expert horse breeders. The
special work of the course relative to
horse breeding included lectures and
demonstrations on breeds, "points /"
soundness, post norton examinations.
and kindred subjects.
WOMEN STUDENTS.
1t is not the men alone who are in
Gerested in the development of scienti-
dc farming methods. Two women.
Mrs. Vernice Langworthy of Augusta.
Wis, and Mrs. Maud Hebron of Mink
wonago, Wis, enrolled as students in
the ten days farmers course, findir Q
1T even more attractive than the fine
programme prepared for the house
keepers conference, which was held at
the same time. Beside these there Al q
several women enrolled in the regular
courses OF work at the agricultural
college. Miss Augustine Elleau came
from Newark, N. j., to take the short
course. One young woman who is a
deaf mute was so interested and en-
thuSlastic that she came to the uni
versity with a girl companion who
acted as interpreter when there we're
lectures she could not eadily under
stand, and, surrounding all obstacI s.;
she is preparing herself to take charge
of model farm of her own.
DEATH OF PROFESSOR D. B. FRANKEN-
BURGER.
Professor David B. Frankenburger,
who for twenty eight years held the
chair of rhetoric and oratory at the
University of Wisconsin, died Feb. 6
at Madison,o of a complication of throat
and nervous diseases, and was buried
Friday, Feb.9, at Forest Hill cemetery,
after services at the Madison Uni
tartan church. Professor Franken-
burger was born at Lawrenceburg, Pa,
Oct. Ii. 1916, and in 1855 he came to
Green county, Wis, where he worked
on farm through his boyhood In
1854 he entered Milwaukee college and
two years later he entered the state
university, whence he graduated in