The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-01

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The opening OF school next week the
events Of the holidays, the plans Incl
Gent 70 the approaching Grain Grow
ers convention, all drop into the back
ground In the face of the confagra-
uon that destroyed the Chemistry
building and it's contents, save onlv
those contained in the vaults.
a good deal Of the recent experiment
~ work was lost, Dr. White estimating
the loss In the division relating to -four
az approximately the work of a wear.
AAlls IL VIII be impossible. to replace,
~ VIII be impossible to replace the
nhe libraries, and the unfinished work
IN the other divisions of the depart
ment
The walls of the old building are
being torn down. The new Chemistry
puliolng will not rise on the same SPOT.
H VIII be built as soon as arrange
ments can possibly be made. It will
DC better than the old. 1T will be fire
PROOF. Probably larger. Certainly
pose.
To the casual observer there is moth
ing especially interesting in the work
OF the chemical department of an ag-
ricultural school. Somehow it rather
foreign to the general atmosphere of
work.
But it is not foreign to that work
OF the three great phases of plant and
animal life and DEVELOPMENT. il is one.
The other two are physics and bacter-
iology. And we are coming more and
more to understand farming as a great
matter OF cost of production is one of
the most important considerations, the
value of chemistry to the Trainer is
coming to be more and more to under
stand framing as agreat manufacturing
enterprise, where the matter of cost
OF production is one Of the most inn
portant considerations, the value of
chemistry to the farmer is coming to
be more and more apparent.
AS DIR. Abbott recently pointed out
the writer, from one side chemistry
deals with saving in the first cost Of
manufacture. That has long been rec
ognized in other lands. We are slowly
coming to realize here that wasteful
production is poor business. We are
trying to grow dollars worth OF
wheat for the lowest possible cost
and so far as the land is concerned
that is in good part chemists prob
lem. You have to have him and his
work in order that the physicist and
the bacteriologist may get accurate re-
suits from their work. 1t takes all
three to round out the problem. You
can't leave out any one OF them.
So the chemist deals at first hand
with the soils, and that is one
large phase of the work of the depart |
ment that is in the building that was. |
For the work goes one unbroken. Burn |
ing building doesn't stop 1t. On the |
first day of the winter term all classes
win provide for; all experimental
work is already once more begun.
Some years ago Prof Ladd did a /
great piece Of work In the analysis of |
Red river valley soils. 1t had not been
done before. 1t has not been thought /
to do it a second time. That
work stands as one of the landmarksI
of the old days. Upon it is now being
built work with the soils that concern
the humus, and its relation to plant
growth, and crop yields. This promise
10 be of large practical and financial
value to the state in the near flu are
Concerning the pharmacy work Mr.
Zeifie, Professor of Pharmacy, says in
D statement given to the writer.
Before the fire that destroyed the
chemistry building that departments
was in it's prime from the standpoint
1t was thoroughly equipped
to accommodate It's students, and the
equipment was the best that could be
had.
THE work was of grade fully up to
that OF the best schools. The leading
schools of the country accept our
students on even terms. A good
deal Of experimental work, now
lost, was in progress work that would
have been of large value to the pharm-
acists of this and other states The
better qualified students were assist
ng in this line of work.
only recently we received a new
OF the very best appar-
atus for the study of analytical prep
arations 1T will take some little time
70 replace this equipment. Drug an
alysis was a leading feature of the !
work, and the department was i'm con-
slant receipt of sample from different ]
parts OF the state, to be analysed for
the medicinal as well as for their
commercial value. For the next next [
month or two this outside investi-
rational work viii be suspended, but {
w that time we expect to be able to do !
he work as efficiently as befors 1
I'VE are now pleasantly located in \
francis hall. The space is ample for t
III corners, and our new stock. is COM \
,lete in every respect. I
Adolph zeIhe. Prof. of Chemistry. 3
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