The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

X y. Moore began experimenting with
what are now known as pedigree
seeds. The crops OF corn. barley,
wheat and oats were not satisfactory
Indeed Wisconsin was not corn
state and her grain suffered from rust
and other diseases BY a process OF
selection and elimination. the seed
corn and barley OF Wisconsin dissent
mated by the university has become the
standard of the North west Car loads
are shipped TO Russia and TO South
Africa and over the country, and the
value o: the crops has been increa sed
TO the people of Wisconsin in the ag-
gregate about Sl0.000,00O annually.
PediSreed wheat and oats are also be-
lnis distributed to great advantage.
In performing this great service to
the state, Professor Moore has organ
i"cd what is known as the wisconsin
Agricultural Experiment Associations"
when now numbers among the gradu-
at"s OF the university. who are expert
meuting OF their farms in collabora-
ton with him. 1000 men, whose pedi-
gree seed sold this year for $500, 900.
There Is also a young peoples corn
and grain contest. Twenty thou
sand youngsters throughout the state
are growing grain and competing for
prizes Ia many cases subscribed for
prcciate the true meaning and great
value TO The community Of the move
mont. Tho youthful victors in the con-
test receive each year q weeks inStruc-
ton at tire university in seed Judging
Flfty-three attended last year.
Again. in the University OF Wiscon-
sin there are about 5000 students
This includes 100 who are taking the
agricultural course III the various de-
partments. The University OF Wiscon-
SIN offers all Of the advantages which
are TO he hId in either the V. i. l. or
the University of Virginia and besides
offers 10 women the opportunity to pre-
pare themselves for the increased bur
den which they have TO bear in an age
of militant industralism The pre-
eminent service, in my opinion, which
this university renders is in what is
known as the extension division" 1t
offers opportunity to those who other
wise would be without hope. \ corps
OF professors and instructors form
classes in distant ana remote localities
IN the state among those who would
study, but who are obliged to labor.
Courses Of engineering, lectures on
steam boilers gas engines. shop mathc-
MATES books ana data encouraging
public discus sions upon topics of To-
cal OF national interest social centres.
utilizing the schoolhouses. all under the
university, have added 5000 of the bone
and sinew Of the country to its staunch
supporters who wonder at the great
work that is being done for the masses
OF the people. The fame of this extern
sion work has gone abroad.
The CITY club of philadelphia, a rep
rcsentativc civic organization of that
city, viii this month conduct an eXpe-
Gition OF representative men and wo-
men from Philadelphia to Wisconsin.
the purpose of which is best described
/ In their bulletin: The purpose OF this
/ expedition is to study carefully, and
win The guidance of the faculty of
The University OF Wisconsin. the re-
markable educational venture and tri-
umph that the university has wrought
through its extension division In
I Wisconsin,. better than anywhere else
~ the world. perhaps the educational
institutions OF the people. and the gov
eminent OF the people. are securely as
sociated FOR the public welfare. They
are writing new chapters in the his
tory Of democracy in Wisconsin,"
The appropriations for the V. r. ].
and the University Of Virginia total
$4,000. according TO Judge Williams.
Wisconsin appropriated last year for
her university about S1.300.00O, which
VIII he increased this year 10 $780,
0oo. of which the agricultural depart
lment Will receive FOR its operating OK
tpoGscs about s50o.o00
I1ila!9 To- Times.