The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1910-10-28
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

The following remarkable showing Is
made by the State Agricultural college
at Manhattan and It's branches, during
this administration.
Last year more than 1900 students at
tended the colege-the largest enroll
lnent of any agricultural college in the
world
The a-erags cost per student at the
agricultural college last year, was
$4,000, less than any other institution
of It's size in the country.
Four new Departments were added
to the college during the year-the De-
partment of Industrial Milling; the De-
partment Of Forestry the Department
of Highway Engineering, and the De-
partment OF Industrial Journalism.
1t is estimated that Kansas now pro-
duces annually million more bushels
of wheat than formerly, through the
efforts of the college improving wheat.
The profit to the state from this source
is several times greater than the. entire
cost OF the college.
The grand champion steer Of Amer
lea and perhaps of the world was fed
and exhibited last year by the State
College.
Last year the College had at the In
dustrial Live Stock Exposition at Chi
cago, the best herd Of five steers in
America.
At the first fat stock show held this
year at ST. Joseph, Missouri, College
steer was the grand champion.
During the past year fifty thousand
doses of anti-hog cholera serum were
produced at the College and distributed
to the farmers Of Kansas.
Before serum experimentation were
made by the College, the annual loss to
the farmers of Kansas, was more than
a million dollars.
One of the great works done at the
College is the survey of soils, which
enables a farmer to ascertain the
amount of plant food in his land, how
long the soil will last and to what
crops it is best adapted.
Ten thousand bushels Of pedigreed
wheat we're grown this year at the Fort
Hays Branch of the College. This seed
was sold to the farmers, and will in
time be Of incalculable value to the
state.
The College has established de-
partment of Industrial Milling to in
vestigate and give instruction in the
best strains of milling wheat, how they
should be handled, and how blenced
TO produce the best flour. The baking
tests at the College reveal the good
points Of this work.
Demonstrations made this year by
the College in eleven of the leading or
chards of the state, have increased the
apple yield more than threefold' by
spraying against insects.
The department is now cross-breed
ing corn found in China, with the ma
tive corn of the state, and the pros
poets are good that corn can be de
veloped that will withstand hot and
dry weather.
The College has collected during the
year. one OF the highest class dairy
herds-fn America, with a view OF max
ing Kansas the leading dairy state In
the Unicn.
During this administration 100000
doses Of black leg vaccine have been
produced at the college and distrib
uted to the farmers Of Kansas, and
I the farmers have used 1t so generally
that the loss OF cattle has been reduc
ed from 80 per cent to less than one
per cent
The college is developing practical
method to prevent damage from the
IIeSsian Fly which caused loss o.
ten million dollars In 1908.
j The College has tackled the problem