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

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1ANY people believe that the College ' s greatest service to the State is its program of research which started at Kansas State as field work on the College farm, but has expanded rapidly in the last 50 years. In 1950, for example, 85 per cent of the corn acreage in Kansas was in hybrid varieties developed largely by agricultural researchers at the College. These strains have increased income from corn by $21 million annually. Victoria blight has been conquered by Chero- kee and Nemaha oat varieties developed at K-State, a victory which adds $5 million annually to farm income. Developed in the last decade, have been Pawnee, Wichita, and Comanche wheat varieties, whose resistance to disease and drouth have added $60 mil- lion yearly to farm income. Kansas cattlemen, for another example, have increased beef production by 26 mil- lion pounds a year through feeding methods developed at Kansas State. Blackleg, which once decimated Kansas herds, has been all but eliminated by a vaccine developed by College researchers. Although the research is carried on through the Agricultural Experiment Station, it entails cooperation with the departments of physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, zo- ology, entomology, and the schools of home economics and veterinary medicine. The Engineering Experiment Station has also contributed to the State by means of longer life for highways through testing and improving highway materials. New uses for Kansas agricultural waste products and natural resources have been developed. Time and motion studies conducted at the College have increased efficiency in institutions, in industrial processes, and in the homes of thousands of Kansas housewives. Research at Kansas State College has meant a happier, healthier people in a better, more prosperous State.