Gilpin observer., 1907-06-27
FARMERS GATHER
ONE HUNDRED MEET TO INSPECT
COLORADO AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE.
HOW EXPERIMENTS MADE
Colorado Greatly Benefited by Care
ful and Scientific Studies by
Students Of College

ohuuCHtS o! SOuS9e
Fort Collins, Cclo.-Never was gar
den more fair to see than was the
Agricultural College farm, including,
of course, the beautiful college
grounds, as the soft grass the plumy
verdure OF the trees, the waving grains
of a thousand varieties glimmered
green in the sunshine, writes spe-
cial correspondent of the Denver Post.
More than hundred of the promi-
nent farmers of the state had gathered
there from twenty-five counties to in
spect the college and the experiment
farm and see what it is that those in
charge of the great enterprise are do
ing. They found that the things that
arc being done are excellent and sur
prisingly extensive, considering the
comparatively short time since the es-
tablishment Of college and farm.
But before we take up the round of
inspection, let us give immediate men,
tion and highest praise to the two men
most largely responsible for the ever
increasing success with which the in
stitution has been favored The two
/ have in mind are President Barton
o. Aylesworth and Dean W. L. Carlyle
the brains of the institution. Under
their care, directed by their unerring
judgment the attendance at the college
and the development of the resources
of the institution have grown stimuli
taneously until the results are broad
and permanent and the Importance
and value of the good work is now un-
derstood and given hearty recognition
by all.
Delightful Luncheon.
Now, | want you to take things
easy, all of you," said Professor Car
lyle, at once taking charge in his
ready active way, when the last spe-
cial train pulled in with the last of
the visitors: Come out here and eat,
the first thing you do
1T was l o'clock, and the fresh
breeze that came out from the deep
shade of tree and copse was refreshing
and appetiZing-every breath of it a
cocktail And so we sat us down upon
the sward while very lovely ladies'
handed us platters of good food and
served us with coffee.
Lieutenant Governor Harper said he
hadn't enjoyed anything so much since
the war. 1t should be mentioned that
William E. Skinner, head of the Den
yer Stock Yards Company, came along
Win tuS DtuNtE CTOWu, Will
him his interesting family, and Mrs,
Martha Shut, secretary of the State
Horticultural Society, and Fred p.
Johnson of the Record-Stockman, and
other Denver people, were present.
After we had wandered about the
campus and visited the various college
buildings. we were loaded into convey
ances and shown the farm. 1t is big
farm. too-320 acres-and cultivated
TO the very topmost point of perfec-
tion.
While l used to think. when a boy,
that | knew something about farming.
because l could run double-shovel
plow the length of corn-row without
tearing up more than half the stalks,
l learned yesterday that | was ignor-
ant or real scientific farming
One Student to Every Acre.
Such fine farm And all kept spick
and span by the 450 young men who
go there to learn to be practical, scien-
tific farmers. And they really do learn,
and the after benefit to themselves
and to the state is incalculable.
The experiments, too, that are in
progress will be of immense value to
all. Fourteen varieties of beets are be-
ing grown and watched while they
grow, with a view to discovering
which is the best for Colorado soil.
which kind will yield the richest speci-
men and which will give the heaviest
yield
So, too with wheat and other cereals
--numberless varieties---all being tested
relative to their suitability to the low,
sandy river bottoms, the higher lands
or the lands situated at the greatest
altitude w ,hci.
Just think. l saw a tenacre field of
wheat which was propagated from
what was but a single grain of wheat
four years ago.
Perhaps more interesting to the vis-
itors was the live stock of all kinds
exhibited and explained very clearly
and carefully by Professor Carlyle.
The Percheron colts. the grand cham
pion mare of America the swine, Po-
land China, the Berkeshires, the Tam
wrists and the prize SOW with the lit
ter of eighteen pigs. Then We saw the
fine cattle and the high-grade sheep
and the wonderful milch cows that pro-
duce daily eight gallons of milk each
After that we went through the farm
machinery department where all sorts
of devices for tilling and cutivating
the soil, for seeding and reaping and
winnowing and what not are taken
apart by the students. while the use
OF every section of IL Is explained and
then "set up" again as 1t was orig
inally.
But how can2I tell IL ALL or one-tenth
of 1t? One might write week on this
beautiful subject and then be but
started. However. all the visitors
were deeply interested in what they
say and heard and apreed fullv u,it b
Governor Harper when. in making
short address after the complimentary
band concert last night. he said. "Our
agricultural college is an institution of
which every man. wmona and child in
the state may we'll he nrond -