Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1911-08-18

timber over five million dollars anO
income from the state for our
nance and betterment over o,a
of million annually. fN'''er
We maintain a high stand..
admission to the Freshman c,n.
lieving this to be vital to sncoa.- "
work-namely the complexion -
four years high school WORK ue
equivalent. Our Organization "H
the departmental system which
mated largely with Cornell univa
ty The student elects his danss'
ment, whether it be agricnl,,,
horticulture, mechanical enginaor,.
electrical engineering, civil or mini.
engineering, or veterinary sc,ana
domestic science or the primar,,
ences, or economics, or whatnot az
within that limits the course :.
arranged as to make him an affoo.
i've worker in his line and ~ !.
same time broad man. The laho,o
tory method gives :he keynote n n.
work whether the laboratories
those of pure science or tn, sbor ~
the orchard, the barns. the hosonol
or the dairy.
i Another department | have 70.
mentioned Colleges do not comma,
up readily with common schools
useful as both are, without con.
meeting link. In the city that link is
the high school. But the high schoo,
excellent as it is, has seen only mar.
TALLY the new light in education and
in too many instances lead the stnd.
ent away from the industrial world
or shuts him out too soon from tha
educational. To meet this need we
have department called The De-
partment of Elementary Science
which meets at least temporary
need 1t is not intended to be prima5.
lily preparatory school but finish
ine school It exists for the big ho
a. girl with an Sth grade edvcalioa
from the farms, the shop or tha fac
tory AMI Vhc may devote any Length
of time from three months to three
years in work directly intended to
fit him for returning stronger and
better to the industrial field. The
subjects are largely practical taught
i'll practical way, and intended to
train practical men and women.
have told you hastily OF the in
structional side. | have not had time
nor will tell you of the grand pro-
gress being made in the purely agri-
cultural and horticultural instruction
but | am sure it would do the heart
good, if | could tell you of it, But
cannot now, for | must tell you that
besides instruction there are two 9TH
err great fields-Agricultura Exper-
| imentation and Demonstration or Ex-
| tension Work. We have a 400-acre
farm. More important still, we have
a half score OF laboratories devoted
exclusively to Investigations designed
to place agriculture on a scientific
basis. | speak advisedly when | say
that already the work of this station
has brought to the state in direct in
crease of wealth more than the whole
institution has cost. | speak adVisedly
when | say that in addition to this
its results have increased the value
OF taxable property sufficiently so that
the increase in revenues due to this
would more than pay the cost of
maintenance. | speak advisedly when
| say that the present apple indus
tries of the state and the value of
apple lands behind it would be an abb
solute impossibility without the solu-
ton of the problems it has solved
I There are other remote and far-reach-
ing problems, whose value only time
can demonstrate. A hundred thous-
and acres of valuable hybrid wheats
may be sort of measure of present
values but barely suggests the far
reaching results of such investiga-
lions. The saving of crops in year Of
scant rainfall and the extension OF
the area of cultivated lands into
the desert may show the immediate
results of tillage and dry land inyes-
legations, but it does not measure its
future potentialties. There is no
field of human effort today
throughout the world more inn
portant to it's ultimate welfare than
the work of the Agricultural Exper-
iment Stations of the United States.
Experimental work is we'll, but it is
not all We are all Missourians. we
have to be shown. The handmade OF
the agricultural college and experl-
ment station is the Extension or Dem
onstrational work. The man of science
is too far away from the farmers.
Thirty-four thousand farmers TINS
last fall visited the demonstration