The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-21

The School of Traction Engineering
Will open its eighth summer session
June 2, 1914, at the North Dakota
Agricultural college. This course is
already we'll known, but to those who
are not familiar with the work Civ
en-, the following information from the
official circular will be of interest:
w have at the present time a revo-
luton taking place in the methods of
farming, a revolution Of no less i'm
portance than the revolution which
the manufacturing industry expert
enced when the steam engine was in
troduced in the last century. The ap-
plication Of steam and gasoline en-
gines to farm work has assumed pro-
portions which justify and demand
that provisions be made for the prop
er training Of men to operate these
engines.
The our in traction engineer
ing aims to do this in as short a
time as is consistent with success. In
the fOu weeks hat the student spends
here in school, he spends his entire
time in getting at the principles of
operation Of the steam and gasoline
engine and combines this with prac-
tice OF a large number of engines in
the laboratory and in the field. A
man will have tn opportunity of IA
miliarizing himself with as many types
Of engines in this short time as the
average engineer will operate in a
lifetime. The course is made as prac-
teal as possible ~embodying only such
things as can easily be grasped and
thEose things which are of special
benefit to the engineer in the field.
Steam Engineering.
THE course in steam engineering is
limited to a considerable Of the trac-
ton engine and only such subjects
are taken up as will be of the great
est benefit to the man who wants to
run an engine in the field. In the lee
lures, which are given in the forenoon,
the various parts of the engine are TAX
en- up in order and discussed in a clear
and simple way, constant use being
made of models and parts of engines.
Sectional samples Of ~injectors. pumps,
lub~ricators, oil pumps, valves, etc, are
at hand by which these parts can
easily be explained and readily under
stood.
I'm the afternoon the students are
given such work as setting valves,
babbitting. setting tubes, lacing belts,
etc.
Steam Engine Field Practice.
In the field practice the student is
given the opportunity Of handling a
large number of engines under work.
ing conditions. The student here gets
the practice in guiding the engine on
the road as we'll as lining up to the
separator. He also gets the expert
ence in watching the fire, the pump,
the injector and the fabrication sys-
tenn of the engine. The adjustment of
bearings and the general care of the
engine are continually pointed out by
the instructors in charge, the whole
object of this training being to make
a man conscious of the responsibility
he assume in taking charge of an en-
CINE.
Gas Engineering.
Gasoline engines are coming into
more and more general use every day
and it is but a question of a few years
till we will find a gasoline engine on
every farm. The uses to which the
gasoline engine can be put on the farm
are many and as a consequence we
find a great variety of engines on the
market ranging in size from the small
one horsepower engine for running the
cream separator to the 80 horse power
traction engine for threshing and
blowing. Realizing the Importance Of
this new prime mover, we aim to give
our students exceptional opportunities
for becoming proficient in the hand
ling of gasoline engines.
1.-The course of instruction in gaso-
line engineering is carried out along
the same lines as the course in steam