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

tually learning trades, in which they
could support themselves after grad
uation, he found something that
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
! far the largest student body of any of
/ the educational Institutions of Texas,
| the school which commands the larg-
1 est amount of public attention and in
terest at this time is the Texas Ag-
! ricul ,ural and Mechanical College,
established under the same Act and
! Operating along the same lines as the
College of Hawaii.
Two years ago it had less than 500
students enrolled. Only a 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 unnis-
| taxable majority of the citizens OF
Texas, so that the next Legislature
Twill certainly heed thai demand. It
| is we'll within -he probabilities that, if
the Legislature will provide accom-
modatiCns and equipment, the agricul-
tural College of Texas will within five
Years far surDass the university in
the size of it's student body and fac
ulty.
Texas "a & NJ" has a feature not
Iyet common ~ colleges; it may, in
deed, be unique This is press
agent. This agent was not appointed
to OoCsr the college, nor to herald its
athletic victories; nothing so ,lna-
mental as that He there to selye
the farmers Of Texas. His work sup
2lements thai O. the experiment sta
Ition bulletin makers. The bulletins
are mailed OIL request to the relative
Nv Few citizens who are sufficiently
progressive to desire them. The
press agent. IL skilled newspaper nlan
Col. James Hays Odarles--supplie
TIC daily ana weekly newspapers OF
Texas with an amazing variety of
Il news stories relative to farming
stock breeding. fruit growing and
gardening in the different sections Of
lTexaS. His BRIEF, ncwsy bulletins
carr! agricultural education each day
and each weel, to hundreds vi .Aru-
Is ;nds who in no ether way wou'.l ac-
luire this ini >rn uton. The iar.ner
who never has s. n one of the nv-
pertinent stations pamphlet bulletins
picks up his favorite country weekly
or his farm paper to find therein one
Ior 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 4O-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 tho Federal de-
partment 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
hogs and grain and fruit; his agents
We're chiefly instrumental in the or
ganization of the Boys Corn Clnbs of
Texas, which has enrolled more than
10000 members. The easiest way to
educate boy is to get him interest
ed in the chosen subject. Twelve reg
iments of Texas boys are tremend
ously interested in the corn club COM
petitions Each boy selects his seed
and prepares, plants, cultivates and
harvests an acre of corn. This ex-
cites interest in soil preparation, in
Fertilizers, in modern systems of cul
tivation in profitable uses of the crop
after it is harvested These boys
have done amazing things on their
$4,000 separate acres. For example,
one lad of ~ years, taking an acre of
poor land in field which had never
been known to produce more than 20
bushels of corn per acre, made it
yield, in last year, 1O4 measured BUSH
els of corn.
The Boys Corn Clubs would be we'll
worth while, if their only result was
to stimulate better methods of corn
doing that, and more. They are
doing that and MORE. They are
the rising demand for the
teaching of agriculture in all the
rural schools of Texas; for the ere