Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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o ■ 1 §CH 001 or AGRICULTURE' t cfjool of Agriculture Jfacultp Dean Arthur Burton Cordley, M. S. Professors Emile Francis Pernot, M. S. Fred Leroy Kent. B. Art. Claude Isaac Lewis, M. S. A. James Dryden Chari.es Edward Bradley. M. S. Henry Desborouch St udder. B S James Withycomde, M. Agr. Instructors George Robert Hyslop. B. Sc. Charles Arthur Coi.e. M. S. Krwine L. Potter, B. S. Arthur L. Peck. B. S. John Colburn Bridwell, B. S. Assistants Ralph Wii.uer Allen. I?. S. Miss Laura Hill. B. S. Clarence Cornelius Vincent, B. S. Claude Clifton Cate. B. S Otto Gerald Simpson. B. S. Fred Clark Ewing. B. S. Fred L. Griffin. B. S. Glf.n DeHaven. B. S. Miss Helen Holgate. B. S. 29

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Mr. Bridwell Mr. Ilyslop Mr. Cole Mr. Griffin Mr. Simpson Mr. Cate Mr. Kwiug Mr. Peck Prof. Bradley Mr. Allen Mr. Potter Mr. Dcllavcn Mr. Vincent Prof. Pernot Prof. Scudder Prof. Ix'wis Dr. Witbycombe Prof. Cordley Prof. Kent

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£fje department of ggronomp On tlic recommendation of President Kerr, tliis deparinient was established by tlu Board of Regents in July. 1907, and work was started in September of ’.lie same year. Although tlu department worked with limited room and equipment, the class rolls for the first year record a total (exclusive of the short course), of 183 students, receiving instruction in ten different courses. During the present college year the department moved into the newly completed Agronomy Building. Here the finely lighted rooms of the first floor have been so well and so rapidly equipped as to afford facilities for this line of work that arc second to none. Instruction now given regularly in some fifteen different courses, added to as many more courses on special subjects offered to advanced students, completely covers the field of this basic science of agriculture. The purpose of this department is to give its students such mastery of all subjects relating to the soil, field crops, farm mechanics, and farm management as will fit them for the highest type of practical farming or for successful careers in professional agriculture. Enrollment: Men. 353: women. 0. Short Course enrollment: Men. 30; women. 0. Department of SUmmal Sjusbantirp The work in Animal Husbandry is not surpassed by any in its interest to tile student. The registration increases just as fast as arrangements and equipment can be made adequate for handling the classes. The following subjects are covered : Practical care on range and farm, feeding, breeding, judging, marketing, breed history and veterinary science. The class room work consists of lectures, text liook and library study, based on both scientific investigation and practical experience. Judging is taught by actual practice with the animals, supplemented with a limited number of lectures. This work is not only popular with the students and of great practical value, but is unsurpassed as a training of the |»owers of observation and judgment. A number of new courses will be added next year, and the amount of live stock on the farm very much increased Enrollment: Men. 140; women. 0. Department of Dairp 2;usbanbrp Dairy instruction lias l»ecn a feature of the curriculum of the courses in Agriculture at the O. A. C. since the beginning of the school year. 1895-0. at that time a special instructor being engaged. At first the instructor's time was largely employed in other lines of agriculture, but with the begin ning of the school year 1907-08. the Department of Dairy Husbandry was established, being part of the scheme of reorganization of the School of Agriculture. For some years past a special instructor has been engaged during the Short Course instruction, and this year a regular assistant was assigned to the department. Dairy instruction was formerly a required subject in Agriculture and Domestic Science, but at present is offered only as an elective, being required only in the Elementary and Sophomore years in Agriculture. Enrollment: Men. 85; women, fi. Jjorticulturr Horticulture is the most intensified phase of agriculture in our state. It is our richest advertiser, and is destined to supply our richest agricultural products for the world’s markets. The Department of Horticulture is one of the oldest in this institution. From one instructor, offering three courses, its efficiency has increased to a force of six instructors, offering thirty-three courses. The aim of this department is to train specialists for professional or practical work in fruit growing, truck gardening, landscape gardening, and floriculture. In addition to the collegiate courses, a six weeks' winter course is offered. The department is doing all in its power to meet the many problems of the state, and accordingly is conducting many lines of experimental and practical work. Enrollment: Men. 130: women, 1.