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

Corvallis, July 24.-The writer
spent Saturday tramplng over the
State Agricultural College farm. II
was boiling hot day, and nearly ev-
erybody was away. New buildings
are going up. The place Is all torn
up with sewerage and general repairs
A number OF new buildings are go
ing up. The presidents private sec
retary is working overtime answer
ing applications to enter the fall
term. The summer school Is over
and the various departments are
closed up, excepting the music
school, where there are pianos going
and students vocalizing. There seems
TO be no way to stop these pianos,
even this weather. The old, tumble
down fences, part rails and part
pIckets and barbed wire are being
displaced with modern fencing. The
shady lane back of the barns is to be
fenced so that the Jerseys Guernsies
and Alderneys will not have to spend
the rest Of their lives standing In the
blazing sun.
While most OF the one hundred and
thirty odd teachers are off to the
seashore, the mountains or keeping
in the shade near a pitcher Of Ice
water, and the young ladies' IRE lying
about on the grass In the shade OF
eyCigreens. about 90 stnte-owneG
bovines stand I'm tho hot sun from
morning to night.
To keep a dairy herd asthatone has
Ia,A ot rnpWaI1t. r.,UbN a al
tract the attention Of the state Hut
name society.
There ought 10 be a law that a
grazing animal be allowed to have q
certain amount Of pasture and exer.
else. II is q mystery how cows can
keep well standing on the bare
ground In n little square pen all the
year around. A pasture with run
ming water with some brush and
shade, with little grass to eOt, and
a chance to hook up the dirt with
their horns Is as necessary for mill
cows as play ground is for chill
dren.
President Kerr was in Portland
and came homo In the eevning. Cir
eulars are out again accusing him o
being n Mormon. He can get Ger
tihcate OF character any day from
Rev. J. II. N. Bell or Bert Johnson
Hut Bell IN ~ the Holy Land ant
johnson Is on on fishing trip Ev
cry time go to Corvallis johnson
"a of nshing. have about oonclud
ed that is the principal occupation O
Presidential postmasteis IN the int
rior, The Holy Land has suffered
great many lr9asions from tho Nc
hA,umetans, TURKS and other bnrbaT
ins But Bel AMI HGrner will b
a surprise to the natives, and tn
poultry will have to roost high o
the tent poles OF the Arabs,
Whenever anyone Is fred at tn
college they begin to mail out thos
old circulars about Kerr being
polygamlst Then Kerr gets bus
and puts up few more agriculture
buildings, This year they are bullt
Ing four, all devoted to tllllng N
soil. The college has bought II
acres about a quarter Of a mile ava,
IL will be used for horticultural an
animal industry, The pig pens an
bull corral will not be exactly With
smelling distance OF Waldo Hall. NJ
old friend, Judge Apperson, who h5
been on the board Of regents 8
years, says they are getting lit
fastidous, but II will be good thin
for the dairy oows to not have
stand all day ON a plank floor In II
broiling sun switching the last ha
on their tails lighting lles In u
cramped conditions at tho colleg
COWS have been raised from caly,
and grown old and died and nev,
saw the inside OF a pasture or ate
blade OF grass that was not fork,
over the fence to them by a hir,
man.
Judge Apperson, who has been 1
the past week auditing the aum
reports aud experimenting harves
INK the summer crop OF dog fem,
never weut to school six months
his life. One OF the smart young fJ