Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-07-29

lows who rolls up his pants half way
to his knees to show his lavender
hosiery, asked him Il cafeteria
was kindergarten for calves. mo"
said the judge, but II is place
where they feed them" A seedy-
looking man with mournful
looking face got off the train with
me, and walked up town. thought
he was the state organizer for the
undertakers' convention. He asked
me II there were any hotels in town.
named them. what show would
there be getting a job as bar tend
e?" he asked. About as much as
getting job pitching snowballs in
the hot place" I said. "You could
get a summer job tending bar on the
river. There's about 40 of them be-
tween here and Albany that need at
tending to-" But 1t didn't satisfy
him. ! gave him Letter of intrOduc-
/ tion to the manager of the picnic
grounds at Hub Bryants island, at
Albany. Everybody had taken a va
cation over at the college grounds,
but Prof Powers, the director Of irri-
cation. He was turning streams Of
water onto some surprised looking
vegetables, and the potatoes wore eX-
presslons of gratitude in their eyes,
and began to swell up with pride, and
/ he entertains some hopes of getting
at least / 8 bushels to the acre. He
apoligized for having been caught al
work, but said the hot spell was the
only time you could try out the
merits Of moisture on the soil.
saw a full-fedged rice paddy.
They coax 1t up six inches high and
then keep the soil covered with three
inches of water. With raisln' grapes
on the hillside the girls at Waldo
Hall will be able to make rice pud-
dlngs made in Oregon" before many
years.
The college land contains the site
of the old Johnson homestead, That
family has imortalized Corvallis, and
It's name may yet be changed by act
Of the legislature to Johnsonville
The soil where they got started here
is almost sacred, and is overgrown
with myrtle.
caught another professor violat.
ing the rules by working In connec.
ton with agriculture. He had or
overalls and was following a binder
/ around the field, cutting about 2C
= different kinds OF barley. Some Of Il
| was wicked looking brewing barley
= that fear Is destined to be sent ou
Of Oregon to demoralize other por
. tlons of the universe On their touI
, Of the Holy Land, where there is saiC
to be no water ft to drink, II Rev
= Bell and DR., Horner do not enCounte
y Oregon products in liquid form the!
@ will have to have operations wheI
n they come home to remove the alkal
coatings from their boiler tubes. Blu
0 oregon is great barley country. Th
Q improved varieties for human ami
n mails and otherwise are tested ou
Y here by Prof. Hyslop, who has goo,
i horticultural name, and was raise'
i on farm In Ohio. He has never ha,
G to contend with very much hlghe
. education and has not forgotten wha
:. soil was made for and can tell
d haystaCk at sight was raised 4
d Iowa, and my heart always give a
n additional throb whel see field O
y corn or red-headed girl l asked
IS man on the farm what that field wa
& over there. 1t had the solid, glossy
Ia darSsyreen color that nothing bu
< field Morn, ready to tassel out, eve
o had, He said he thought 1t wa
e thousand-legged kale, but he WASH
Ir right certain. felt sorry for sue
10 man ON an agricultural culleg
Q, farm or course. Hyslop wasn't thl
IS way, lie spent three hours with mi
n showing me corn, oats, barley an
a spuds, | believe there Is more agr
ID culture being taught, more actut
a working OF the soil being done her
more industrial education than eve
.p before. The time Is coming whe
nj teachers must not only be able to le
L ture and teach at such schools, bl
4, they must be able to do the thlnl
In they talk about and perform In acut
l. deed as wei las theorize. Many OF II