Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1912-01-11
chas. Knight Accepts New Position.


numerous friends of Charlie" Knight,
son of John Knight of this city;
1.-The rumor that Prof. C. S. Knight
of the agricultural department of the
University of Nevada, would not take
up his duties with the Institution next
semester, was confirmed last Saturday,
when his resignation reached the hands
of the board of regents.
THAT not only the university, but
the state also, will lose the services
of man who can i'll be spared, is a
fact that is potent 70 every one con-
nected with agriculture in Nevada.
But one industry, and one which has
assumed large proportions of import
ance of late, and which will continue
to grow, will be well served by the
severance of Prof. Knights connec-
tons with the university, and that is
the growing of sugar beets. 1t is to
the end that the successful culture of
beets for sugar making be more extern
sively followed, that Prof. Knight has
accep.ed the position as chief agricul-
turist with the Nevada Sugar company,
with headquarters at Fallon.
&C. s. Knight came to the University
of Nevada in August OF 1909, as assist
ant in agronomy, and at that time
there was but one student in the agri-
cultural college, and up till then, one
enrolment for each semester 1t was
but a short time before people began
to see that the agricultural standard
at the university was one that should
meet more than ordinary consideration,
and it must have been gratifying to
Prof Knight to see that in the short
two years and a half that he was CON
nected with the college of agriculture,
the number of students had increased
| from one to twenty-one, and two men
had graduated, both of whom are hold
ing good positions, one with the United
States government and the other with
stock corporation.
at was Prof Knight who formed the
Agricultural club, which now has a
membership of twenty-six. and an
active membership of twenty-one.
This club has for its motto, more
Farming and Better Farmers, and its
object is to encourage the investigation
of scientific agriculture and to promote
its application.
During his term at the university,
Prof. Knight has done an immense
amount of work at the experiment sta
ton and at the present time there are
seventy-ive varieties of sugar beets
being experimental upon in cultivation
and irrigation. The knowledge thus
gained gives him quite degree of eff
ficiency in taking up his new position.
1t is barely year since the University
of Nevada published a bulletin, the
work of Prof Knight, entitled, "The
Sugar Beet industry IN Nevada, and
which has been great help to beet
growers Of Churchill county
Knight will be missed in athletic
circles too, more particularly on the
diamond He is a pitcher Of the first
class, and it was mainly due to his eff
forts as a coach, and as pitcher Of the
team, that the varsity was enabled
to put up such good performances
against the universities Of Stanford and
California as they did last spring.
Prof. Knight held the position OF
superintendent Of the state dry tex.
perimentaD farm, the results from
which are known to the farmers Of
this state and other states, and in the
last two years, il was bis privilege e
reai papers at the Dry Farming con
gress at Billings, Mont, and Colorado
Springs. He is a graduate Of the uni
yersity Of Wisconsin, and occupied
position there after graduation. Theme,
he went to the Manhattan Agriculture
. college Of Kansas, where be held tn
position Of assistant professor IN agron
omy till 1903 when he came to Nevada.
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