The Glenwood post., 1907-06-29
FARMERS GATHER
ONE HUNDRED MEET TO INSPECT
COLORADO AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE,.
HOW EXPERIMENTS MADE
Colorado Greatly Benefited by Caro-
ful and Scientific Studies by
Students Of College


Students Of College
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
yerdure of the trees, the waving grains
of thousand varieties glimmered
green in the sunshine writes a spe-
cial correspondent of the Denver Post.
More than Il 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 ii is that those in
| charge of the great enterprise are do
| ing. They found that the things that
are being done are excellent and sur
| prisinsly 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
ton 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.
Nov, / 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 ! O'Clock, and the fresh
/ breeze that came out from the deep
shade of tree and copse was refreshing
| and appetizins- 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
with the Denver crowd, bringing with
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 We're loaded into convey
ances and shown the farm. 1t is big
| rnn-ppu Il
to the very topmost point of perfec-
| ton.
| While | used to think when a boy,
| that | knew something about farming.
| because ! could run a double-shovel
plow the length of a corn-row without
tearing up more than half the stalks,
| ! learned yesterday that | was ignor-
ant or real scientific farming.
One Student to Every Acre.
Such a 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 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 where vegetation may subsist
Just think! | saw ten-acre field of
wheat which was propagated from
| what was but 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 it is explained and
| then "set up again as it was orig
| inally.
| But how can2I tell it all. or one-tenth
| of it? One might write week on this
| beautiful subject and then be but
| started. However. all the visitors
were deeply interested in what they
saw and heard and agreed fully with
| Governor Harper when. in making
| short address after the complimentary
band concert last night he said Our