Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1919-09-25
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addresses, in talking part in plays and
other forms of public entertainment. |
Such training is quite essential to the
boy or girl who wishes to become II
lender in their community, as with IL
ready knowledge of parliamentary law
and confidence in themselves before
an audience, they can make themselves
u power in their community,
Music.
A department of music is maintained
for those who wish to prepare them
selves along this line in connection
with their other work. A band, or
chestra and Il glee club are maintained
to which many of the students belong.
Commercial and Business Course.
A commercial course has been adj
ded which includes bookkeeping, COM
mercial law, shorthand, typewriting,
accounting, grain grading and testing.
All kinds of accounting will be taken
up but special attention will, be given
to elevator accounting. which will be
made possible through having the
courses in grain grading and testing.
There are exceptional facilities along
these lines as llle state grain grading
laboratory ls,located ut the college.
Other Departments.
Departments of biology, Of English
and philosophy of history, of social
science aud the modern languages are
also maintained.
Physical Trainings
The physical well being of the stu
dent is also being looked after in the
athletic department, where boys and
girls have to take part in exercises
that lead towards. IL proper physical
development. Those who have special
ability along some line as football,
baseball, basketball have IL chance to
enter one of these tennis and represent
the college in its contest with other in
situations in the state.
The Experiment Station.
The experiment station, which Is a
part of the Agricultural college, car
ries on inyestigational work in soils
and crops, live stock, dairying, chem
istry, horticultural, farm management,
marketing, poultry, veterinary, plant
diseases and plant breeding. Most of
the investigators in these lines also
teach. In this way the students are
tgiven the benefit of this investigatiOnal
work and students frequently select as
their problems for specialization, sub
jects being investigated by the station
workers.. Students working to help
pay expenses in college are given en-
ployment in those departments in which
they wish to specialize as fur as pos
sible and in this way come in close
touch with the station workers. The
station farm of over 700 acres is also
well equipped with machinery and
live stock for carrying on the modern
farming. There are also substations
that are under the direction of the
investigators Of the experiment sta
ton. The students often have an op-
pOrtunity of assisting in the work at
these substatiOns. Demonstration farms
are established over the state. The
students have first-hand information
as to the results in all these lines of
work.
4 Extension Division.
The work Of the extension division
is carried on by county agents, home
demonstration agents, boys and girls
club leaders and experts The mis-.
sion Of the extension division is to co.
operate with farmers on their farms
as far as possible in making the farm
more profitable and more attractive
The work includes improvement OF
live stock; rotation Of crops, demon
stratiny new crops, potato marketing
and animal plant disease control, less
ening drudgery in the home through
labor saving devices, etc.
Through the visual instruction sery
ice the extension division sends on,
/ slides for stereopticons and motion pic
ture films. These are furnished fret
to schools, clubs and other Organiza
4 lions.
The North Dakota Agricultural col
lege is very comprehensive in thu
service that 1t renders the state. Thu
people Of the state can make mucf
greater use of this institution, that II
organized to. serve the people Of til.
state as has been so well exemplifiet
under the leadership Of Dr.. u. H
Worst, formerly president, and DR.. e
F. Ladd, president at the present time
State Treasurer Obert Olson. wht