Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-08
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

Governor Burke Will duuieSS 1lHS
students and faculty in the armory |
on February 18TH This date is look
ed forward to with great interest by
everyone at the college. His sub
iect is not announced as yet.
A number of very valuable prizes
are offered this year in the farm |
mechanics prize essay contests. The
complete list is not ready yet, but
among these who have offered prizes !
is the Avery Manufacturing company,
The subject the company has chosen
for the students to write upon is
Flowing by Steam" Subjects are
always stated by the company offer
ing the prize, but the name of the
company never appears in the essay.
One of the writer's in last years con.
test won a manure spreader valued
at one hundred and thirty dollars.
The cooking classes in the domestic
science courses are learning to make
bread and prepare meats. at the pres
ent time. One of the main objects
is to learn to distinguish the differ
ent cuts of meat. A little later the
whole class will visit several of the
best meat markets in the city and
see just how an animal is cut to get.
the best parts of the animal in the
proper cuts.
The February issue of the extern
sion will contain complete report
or outline of the work done at the
several demonstration farms estab-
lished along the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern railroads in North Da-
kota, The Extension is a monthly
publication issued at the college.
which can be had free by sending in
name and address.
DR.. Van Els receives numerous in
quiries FROM farmers in regard to
diseases of farm stock and partic-
ularly in regard to tuberculosis and
glanders. He says that from the ma
ture of these inquiries he thinks the,
average farmer is getting well post
ed in regard to infectious diseases,
and that they are willing to cooper
ate in stamping out these diseases.
He has been lectnring to his classes
in veterinary science the past week
on pleurisy and pneumonia.
The engineering society farmally |
opened it's room in the new engineed-
ing building on Jan. 81, by giving a
public program. Some very fine pa
pers were prepared and some very
good talks by several members of
the faculty and President Worst.
Their room is twenty-five by thirty !
feet in size, but on this occasion it |
was impossible to get the crowd in
the room. Standing room was at a
premium out in the hall. Extensive |
plans are going forward for the dec
Grafton of the room. In connection
with this work the secretary of the
society has written to large number
of manufacturers in the east for [
or pictures that would |
be suitable for decorating purposes
Several of the firms have already re-
sponded. One company sent some
very fine views of four bridge tram
ways erected at Milwaukee for COM
pany there.
The physics laboratory in the new
engineering building is already crowd
ed to teh limit. Three or four stud
ents are working at tables where only
placed in the eltuaoinhrdluetaoi
Forty new tables were placed
in the mechanical drawing room this
fall and now two students are re.
CURED to work at nearly every table.
The old mechanical building has been
converted into forge and wood shop
Glasses last two hours and the first
class begins work at o'clock in the
morning and new shift goes on ev-
cry two hours until $3.50 in the after
noon. Altogether nearly four humid
red students are taking either forge
or woodshop work.
Prof. Seaver is getting some very
valuable results in connection with
his work on the economic fungi of
the state. He will undoubtedly have
some parasitic species on the COM
mon cultivated plants classified that
were heretofore unknown
The classes in farm mechanics are
working with harvesting machines at
present. They have types of all the
better known machines in the labor
atory to work with This affords an
excellent chance to study the differ
ent kinds of machines. The prime
object is to learn their adjustment
and operation.
If nothing happens. the coming sum
mer the department of horticulture
will craf tho oraapho,,oo hos nood