Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1916-04-20
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heat and laundry.
Scholarships are given to high school
s udents. one scholarship to be award
"a to the best student at each accred.
tied school,
Modern dormitories provide accom-.
mOdations for cadets.
Students are required to wear reg.
lation uniform.
A smaller percentage OF the student
body Is absent from duty on account
OF sickness than in the United States
Army.
A new and strictly modern hospital.
under care OF a graduate surgeon and
two trained nurses. makes the care OF
the sick a simple matter.
A thirty-one piece band plays for
drills and parades and leads the reg
iment TO meals.
The main experiment station is To-
Gated at College.
A director. forty specialists. en-
gagged In research work and seven
clerical wCSkers are maintained at
this station.
Feeding and breeding OF farm ami
mails soil building and crop tests are
conducted at the station.
There are eleven experiment sub
stations located in different sections
OF the State, These stations make
adaptability tests, introduce new crops
and study local problems.
The experiment station system pop
ularized Sudan grass in the United
States.
The history. control and eradication
of plant diseases. destructive insects
and diseases OF livestock are the sub
ject Of investigations.
The College hog cholera serm plant
last year distrIbted $4,000 doses OF Sc
run. saving the hog growers OF Texas
100000, according to their own fig.
res
! Vaccination to prevent Texas fever
was found effective and first used by
Or. Mark Francis. professor OF veter.
mary science at the College and vet.
erinarian to the experiment station
The use OF this vaccine has reduced
the loss OF cattle shipped below the
tick line from IS per cent to saving
of IS per cent.
The extension service numbers an
army of 2S field specialists engaged
In carrying the scientific truths de-
veloDed at the College and experiment
station to the people OF the State.
Work along the following lines Is
conducted comparatively with the
United States Department of Agricult.
ure:
Boys and Girls Club work In corn,
cotton. pig and baby beef clubs and
canning and poultry clubs-llOO0
/. members.
=. County demonstration agents in az
riculture. 1903 In number.
Domestic science, work with won.
ems clubs.
Hog Cholera-demonstrations and
lectures In prevention and control.
Field work In horticulture, dairy
husbandry. animal husbandry, general
agriculture, marketing and organiza-
tion. rural credits.
The extension service also will keep
negro demonstrators in the field this
year.
Last year forty.five local short
courses for farmers and farm women
were conducted in different sections
OF the State.
Each summer a farmers short
course. one week in length, is con
Quoted at the College.
A short course in highway engineer
ing ls given during the winter months.
In writing to the College address the
following;
For information concerning entrance
requirements. courses offered. etc,
The Registrar. College Station, Texas.
For information along the line OF in
ycstigation by experiment station
workers and the bulletins published
at the station, The Director OF Exper.
lment Stations
For information on extension work,
for lecturers. demonstrations and ex.
tension bulletins. etc, The Director OF
| Extension Service
For general information. Or. w. r.
Dlzzell. President.