Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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HIS is the day and age of the specialist. In any line of work or m business, the man especially well trained in some particular hne is the one whose services are in demand and who usually achieves the gi-eatest success. In these days of high-priced lands and serious difficulties in obtaining help upon the farm, the agri- culturist who would be most successful must be a specialist. The authorities of the Kansas State Agricultural College be- lieving that its students should have an opportunity to specialize along the line of agiicultural work for which each has a particular likmg, divided the agi-icultural work into the various departments we now have; each offermg a four years ' course in a particular line of work. Of these various courses none has been more popular among the students or appreciated more by the general public than the course in Animal Husbandry. That this work may be more efficient and practical, pure-bred herds of horses, sheep, swine, and the beef breeds of cattle are maintained for demonstration pur- poses. This department now owns fifteen pure-bred horses, one hundred pure-bred sheep, one hundred fifty pure bred hogs, and one hundred twenty-five pure bred cattle. However, the aim in maintaining these herds is quality rather then quan- tity, so that the students in their study of breed type and live stock production may have the best representatives of each breed with which to work, thus developing and encouraging higher and better ideals in their minds, toward which they may work when they return to the farm to take up the business of live stock production. This department also carries on a gi-eat deal of experimental work in the breeding, feeding and care of the various breeds of live stock. The student has an opportunity to watch and study these experiments. A gi-eat deal of information of inestimable value may thus be gained from such observation of the development and results of these experiments. As proof of the practical nature of the work in this department, it might be men- tioned that in the fall of 1909, at the International Live Stock Show, where compe- tition is open to the whole country, where practical feeders and colleges compete for honors, both the grand champion and reserve gi-and champion fat steers were fed, developed and shown by the Animal Husbandry Department of the Kansas State Agricultural College. This was a double honor never before won by any single breeder or feeder at one time. During the past year this department has won six championships and .seventeen first prizes. Under the management of Professor R. J. Kinzer, recently resigned, this work has been self-supporting. While the aim and purpose of this department is to train and equip the man who takes the course in animal husbandry so that he may go back to the farm and be a more practical and efficient producer of live stock, many other lines are open to the graduates of this course, such as government work, superintendents or managers of stock farms, live stock salesmen or live stock journalists.

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Dean Webster

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OSCAR C. CROUSE A Z Athletic Association Webster GEORGE E. DULL y. M. C. A. Alpha Beta Students ' Herald 16?—