The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-13

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horticulture, and so on. In the schoo
all of the work is required, and ia
from being wholly technical it include.
history and civics, drawing and music
and much else of a general nature t.
MT the student not only for the dutie,
OF citizenship, but for social and home
enJoyments. Literary societies, debat
Ing societies and similar organization
offer supplementary work of a highl,
educational nature. Military tactics
are taught and full attention is given
to athletics and gymnastics.
In all of its departments the col.
lege has grown gradually but healthilv
and is coming into it's own as one Of
the leading institutions of the north.
west. Men who have received their
education here have won national
fame, like Professor Hopkins Of Hi.
nois. Minnesota has drawn upon the
Brooklngs institution heavily for men
to fll positions as agriculturalists in
Its many industrial high schools.
One Of the most important depart
ments of the institution, of course, is
the experiment station, where have
been worked out, and are to be worked
out the agricultural problems peculiar
to the state.
1T is in this department that have
been solved several very important
problems having to do with northwest.
ern horticulture. Here Professor N. E.
Hansen, putting into practice a new
theory OF plant hardness, has develop
ed Strawberries. rasnhArriAs---
northern winters without winter-kill-
ing. though unprotected by natures
blankets Of snow or artificial blankets
of straw or other covering. For such
work Professor Hansen is known all
over the United States and has fame
abroad.
Here, too, Professo" Hansen has de-
veloped alfalfas found by him on e v
eral expeditions to Siberia, and work
ed out a plan for giving the high and
dry lands of the west an absolutely
hardy alfalfa, developing a system of
alfalfa nurseries for economy in the
use of alfalfa seed and for the grow
ing Of additional supplies to hasten
the conquest of Dakota's uplands by
the greatest Of all forages.
working on the same subject, for
the establishment Of South Dakota as
an alfalfa state, is Albert N. Hume, OF
the colleges department of agronomy
AS ~agronomist, too, Professor Hume is
taking a broad view of the work before
his state. He says the big problem
is to discover a crop system that will
utilize to the best advantage the vary
ing rainfall and the different soils o.
the state. He sees the main outline o
this system in a cultivated crop o
some sort, followed by grain, and ther
by a legume. Such a system, witt
cattle, will go far toward solving Soutl
DakotaPs problems. But in actual
practice the system will have to b,
varied for the different parts of thu
state. Both rain and soil condition
vary so greatly.
"In the eastern part of the state, TO
example, there is need of phosphorou
in the soil, says Professor Hume. EA
perimerts at Brookings show tina
: PHOSPHORUS will increase the averag
!, yields of corn, wheat, barley, oats, an
: clover more than 81 per cent. SO tina
y the PHOSPHORUS is paid for in increa!
! ed yield by the end of five years, an
: half of the added fertility is still left /
i. the ground.
q "In the eastern part of the stat
however, the limiting elements is nc
! PHOSPHORUS, but rainfall. Here
different system must be adopted.
s "As a result, the broad conclusion
i reached that South Dakota not onl
n needs a mixed farming system, but
mixed farming system intelligent
placed.
among the things recently accor
plished by Mr.. Hume's department al
the development Of the Kubanl
durum wheat, giving a yield Of fo1
bushels to the acre better than the 9
binary wheat, and improvement