Bisbee daily review., 1913-09-14

 OPENING DAY


 TUCSON, Sept. 12-Monday. Sep tember 18th. is registration day at the University of Arizona, at which time students new and old will be well eomed to the campus and apportioned to the various courses of study in which they are interested. From cor respondence thus far received a gen erous portion of the agricultural stud ents is expected,
 The course of instruction published in the catalog comprise a wide variety of subjects applicable to different de partments of agriculture and animal industry. Those courses, in particular, relate to the principals of plant cut. ture, farm crops, live stock judging. uairying, market gardening, plant
 breeding, dryfarsning. soil physics, soil fertility, history of breeds, poul- try husbandry, pomology, citrus fruits veterinary physiology, animal dis eases, animal breeding. foods and feeding, small fruits and farm man agement-an array of offerings which will to some extent meet the wide range of demands made upon the in. stitution by the agricultural students cf the Southwest.
 Facilities for agricultural instrue- ton at the University have been added during the vacation period, A new pump house and machine shop on the university farm is nearing completion. Main structure shelters the new Fair banks Morse oil bErning engine. and also affords repair shop and shelter for the farm tools. It's dimensions are 35z50 1t, with a fire proof construc- uon of cement, brick and steel. This building, which houses the pumping machinery, for the farm is, as its importance iustifies, of solid and per. manent construction.
 The workmen's cottages will add to the comfort and, therefore. to the ef- fectiveness of those employed in main. tainins the farm.
 Additions to the dairy herd of value of about S2. 400 have been made. These additions comprise eight cows of different breeds. which will serve as living subjects of study by the classes in dairying. Three of these cows are imported Guernseys from the Islands made famous by this breed. three are Alrshiros, one is a Jersey and one a Holstein. These animals are all registered and are a choice lot
 The agricultural courses at the University are fortuuite in the person nei of the Instruction secured for the year. Professor N. NJ. Wilson, for several years a member of the expert ment station stock and familiar with live stock conditions in Arizona, has moved from Phoenix to Tucson to take charge of the classe sin animal hus- bandry, as well as to manage the live stock interests of the institution at large. Professor Wilson has just returned from a years leave of ab- scnce at the University of Illinois. where he pursued advanced course of instruction and secured his Masters degree in animal husbandry.
 Mir Stanley F. Morse, a graduate of the Bussoy Institution, which is the agricultural department of Harvard University, takes of th agricultural class work. including uch subjects as dry-farming market gardening and farm management. Sir. Morse is man of wide experience, having served as a consulting agricultural engineer in connection with railroads and other large landed interests Iii the South- ern states and in Mexico. Mir. Morse has had a great deal Of experience in | organizing farmers. association for the purpose of securing the various ad- vantages incident to such organiza- tons.
 | Professor W. Fl. Lawrence is to 1 teach classes in Pomology. Prof. Law ! renee comes from the apple growing | districts Of eastern Washington and i is a specialist iE apple culture. He expects, also, to develop class work | sub-tropical fruits, including citrus
 fruits, dates, figs, olives. etc. Profes sor Lawrence, also, is a man of sev eral years experience both in the edu
 cational field and in practical farming
 Dr A. B. VinsOn and Mr. J. C. Uphof
 of the experiment station staff, srt