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

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Agricultural research, extension and resident instruction are supervised by Glenn H. Beck, dean of the College. Ag student increase tops land-grant enrollments Largest numerical enrollment increase in any of the 68 land-grant institutions was recorded by the College of Agriculture. With a 23 per cent enrollment jump, Agriculture also made a larger percentage increase than any of the other University colleges. Heading over-all College administration for the fifth year was Dean Glenn Beck. Coupled with its expanded enrollment was a consolidation of facilities. The departments of dairy and poultry science, which had func- tioned as individual units for more than half a century, were united. Kansas Board of Re- gents action placed the former units, both housed in new Call Hall, under a single ad- ministrative head. Agriculture ' s research activities were mag- nified by completion of plans for establish- ment of a Water Resources Research Institute on campus. The Institute, to be operated by K-State and the University of Kansas, would study problems of water resources. Included in the research would be studies of the hydro- logic cycle and of conservation, use and ex- pansion of state water supplies. To the extension service fell the duty of con- ducting a state-wide inventory of forestry resources. Research findings revealed poten- tial forest crops for state production. College of Agriculture Depart- ment Heads Top Row: Thomas B. Avery, Poultry Science; Rufus F. Cox, Animal Husbandry; Robert P. Ealy, Horticulture; Her- bert C. Knutson, Entomology; and Howard L. Mitchell, Bio- chemistry. Bottom Row: John A. Nordin, Agricultural Economics; Charles L. Norton, Dairy Science; Stuart M. Pady. Plant Pathology; John A.Shellenberger, Flour and Feed Milling Industries; Floyd W. Smith, Agronomy. 22

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Through use of simple props, students present a class demonstration of science for the elementary school. In preparation for teaching, each student develops and pre- sents a project for the grade with which he hopes to work. 21

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State-wide extension programs in agriculture, home eco- Duane C. Acker, assistant dean and director of resident in- nomics and 4-H club work are directed by Harold E. Jones. struction, co-ordinates nine Agriculture departments. Baked in a commercial oven, loaves of bread are tested for baking in the laboratory used by the world ' s only four-year doneness. Students analyze the quality of Kansas flours by university curriculum in flour and feed milling technology. 23