Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-04-25
NEW COURSE IN AGRICULTURE,

oy the board OF administration, which
takes charge July l. One is the COM
oination of the agricultural college
experiment farm and the branch nor
NAL school at Hays. The other is an
entirely new course in agriculture at
the agricultural college, in reality an
agricultural high school.
The board, after its meeting with
Governor Hodges, gave out the fol-
lowing announcement Of its plans:
The board Of administration has es-
taolished a new rule in reference to
purchases made for the various edu.
cational institutions. Several of the
institutions require boiler and heating
equipment, and there is a large heat.
ing plant to be established at Pitts.
burg, and the board has decided to
Ouy all Of tbs equipment for all of
the schools at one time. They have
also decided to buy the equipment for
manual training and domestic science
under one bid and have called upon
the heads Of the various Institutions
tor an estimate Of the amount of ma.
terial' equipment and supplies, in
Guiding brooms and floor cleaning
chemicals, that they will use during
the next year, and they will buy
this material, equipment and supplies
on competitive bids as soon as they
take charge of the institutions, and
before the opening Of another school
year.
The board, at its meeting at Man.
haitian, reelected President Waters
as president Of the Kansas State Az
ricultural college, and Chancellor
Strong as chancellor of the univer-
sity. They also accepted the resig-
nation of Professor Pickens, as head
OF the school at Hays, and they will
attempt to combine the work of the
experimental station with its short
courses in agriculture, at the Hays
experiment station, with the work Of
the State Normal, at Hays; and have
also arranged to have the alfalfa on
the normal lands taken care of by
the agricultural experiment station,
thus making a great saving to the
state. The agricultural college will
assist in the management Of the
lands belonging to the normal school
the normal school having about
$500 acres of land, and the agricul-
tural college about 1000 acres, all a
part of the same tract.
These two institutions have hereto
fore been under separate boards,
who made their separate visits out
of there, an" had no cooperation
whatever from each other. The new
board insists that both schools be-
long to the state and should work to-
gether for the states benefit and
not for their individual glory.
DR.. Butcher, the new head of the
State Normal school, will also be at
the head of his training SCHOOL,
method followed by the best normal
schools of the country. The offices
of vice-president and president Of
the training school at Emporia were
abolished, because the board felt that
there were too many offices.
The board, in Connection with the
president, at Manhattan, established
an agricultural school which is dis,
tinct from the college in that each
years work is practical and separate
and it admits from both grade and
rural schools. Its aim is to train for
practical work instead of preparing
to enter any academy or college.
For the men, there is practical
work in agriculture, farm mechanics
and farm repair work, and the only
cultural studies carried through the
course are English and mathematics
and both branches are carried from
practical standpoint. instead of nal
ing any great work.
The new school will be handled by
the teaching force, farms and herds
and poultry equipment that are al
ready there, and any young man OF
woman who can have just one years
practical work, will be given the bes'
possible chances at the agriculture
college from now on.
For the girls, in this agricultural
school there is training in agricul
ture, orcharding, poultry, domestic
science and domestic art, and al
with relation to practical work il
the home, instead of entrances int
colleges or teaching.
This school will be open this com
ing year and small pamphlets giving
an entire outline of its work ant
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