Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-10


Texas has had in operation five
/ years.
Although the university is re-
garded by all as the crown of the
state educational system, and has by
1 far the largest student body of any of
/ the educational institutions of Te%as,
1 the school which commands the larg-.
est amount of public attention anG in
terest at this time is the Texas Ag-
ricul .ural and Mechanical College.
established under the same Act and
1 operating along the same lines as the
College of Hawaii.
Two years ago it had less than 500
/ students enrolled. Only very small
percentage of them were listed in the
| agricultural courses. Nearly all
looked to engineering and the me-
chanic arts for a career. Today the
school has more than 1000 students
and its demand for separation from
! the university, and for independent
maintenance, is backed by an unnlis-
taxable majority of the citizens OF
Texas, so that the next Legislature
Twill certainly heed thai demand. Il
is well within ne probabilities that, if
the Legislature will provide accom-
modaIiCns and equipment, the agricul-
t1Y,. 81 a.
Years far suI2ass the university in
the size of its student body and fac
Iulty.
Texas "a. 4 NJ has a feature not
yet common II colleges; it may, in
deed, be unique This is a press
agent. This agent was not appointed
to Docsr the college, nor to herald its
athle'ic victories; nothing so ,lua-
mental as that He S there to sci We
the farmers OF Texas. His work SUP
plements that CO the experiment sta
ton bulletin makers. The bulletins
are mailed OIL request to the relative
ly few citizens who are sufficiently
progressive to desire them. The
press agent, IL skilled newspaper nan
Col. James Hays Odarles--supplies
TIC daily ana weekly newspapers Of
Texas with an amazing variety of
news stories" relative to farming
stock breeding. fruit growing and
gardening in the different sections of
Texas. His brief, ncwsy bulletins
Cor"! agricultural education each day
and each week to hundreds vi Am
s ,nds who in no ether way wou''l az
.luire this ini)rn alton. The iar,ler
who never has s. n one of the nv-
pertinent stations pamphlet bullet ms
picks up his favorite country weekly
or his farm paper to find therein one
or more Of Colonel Quarles' fact
stories derived by him from the ex-
rerts in the college departments. The
farmer who gets sleep too soon after
supper to pore through 40-page
bulletin written in technical language
takes in the substance of that bulle-
tin in few brisk newspaper para
graphs and is the richer, perhaps, by
one or more facts useful to him in |
his business Of raising hogs, or grow
ing Elberta peaches or Satsuma or
anges.
Uncle Sam, through the Federal de- |
Dartment of agriculture, is a power
full factor in the educating of the |
people of Texas. Nor is Uncle Sam |
concerned only to educate the |
'grown-ups" in respect to growing
more and better cotton and corn and |
logs and grain and fruit; his agents
were chiefly instrumental in the or.
ganization of the Boys Corn Clubs of |
Texas, which has enrolled more than
10000 members. The easiest way to
educate boy is to get him interest
I'd in the chosen subject. Twelve reg
ments of Texas boys are tremend
)usly interested in the corn club COM
petitions. Each boy selects his seed
and prepares, plants, cultivates and !!
an acre of corn. This eX-
cites interest in soil preparation, in |
in modern systems of cul-
ivation, in profitable uses of the crop |
after it is harvested. These boys |
nave done amazing things on their
$4,000 separate acres. For example,
)ne lad of ~ years, taking an acre of
poor land in a field which had never
1een known to produce more than 30
bushels of corn per acre, made it !
Yield, in last year, 104 measured bush
als of corn.
The Boys Corn Clubs would be we'll
worth while, if their only result was
o stimulate better methods of corn
loing that and more. They are
loing that, and MORE. They are
the rising demand for the
of agriculture in all the
rural schools of Texas; for the Gre
alton of system Of county agricul-
.ural high schools, and especially for
he uniting of neighboring one-room
country schools into district graded
schools These deyelODmentS are