University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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(Lift MntJ lnnh Agrtrultural lExprnmrat tattnn Director: Mr. H. J. PATTERSON. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. S. S. Buckley, D. V. S., Veterinarian. J. B. S. Norton, M. S., Botanist and Pathologist. T. B. SyMONS, M. S., Entomologist. C. p. Close, M. S., Horticulturist. N. ScHMITZ, M. S., Agronomist. Geo. Edw. Gage, Ph. D., Biologist. Chas. O. Appleman, Ph. D., Phy siologist. Roy H. WaiTE, B. S., Associate Poultr man. THE charter given our college by act of legislature in 1856 was for An Agricul- tural College and Model Farm. This Model Farm, the first of its kind m our country, was the beginning of what is now the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. Later, by the Hatch Act and the Adams Act, appropriating money for its use from the National treasury, this Station was given a status as a national as well as a State insti- tution. At first the Experiment Station was a department of the College, and managed as such, but it has been found that such close association was not advantageous, so the tendency has been for the College and Experiment Station to manage each its own affairs, tho both are under the same board of Trustees. The work of the Experiment Station may be broadly divided into the two branches. Investigation and Instruction. The investigation is of those problems whose solution may mean a lowering of the cost of any farm product. The Station uses a farm of nearly three hundred acres for this work, and there are few better managed experimental farms in the country. While, by the very nature of the work, the farm cannot be made to yield a profit while under experiment, yet the question of cost is never lost sight of. Instruction is thru various means. The most important of these is the bulletins, which give the results of experiments, or distribute timely and useful information. These are 11

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Calentiar 19 01 1910. Third Term. Tuesday, March 29th, 1 P. M. — Third Term Begins. Monday, May 1 6th — Submitting of Theses. Friday, June 1 0th — Final Meeting of Trustees. Sunday, June 1 2th — Baccalaureate Sermon. Monday, June 1 3th — Class Day. Tuesday, June 1 4th — Alumni Day. Wednesday, June 1 5th, 1 1 A. M. — Commencement Day Exercises. 1910—11. First Term. Tuesday, September 1 3th, and Wednesday, September 1 4th — Entrance Examinations. Thursday, September 1 5th, 1 P. M. — College Work Begins. Wednesday, December 2 1 st, noon — First Term Ends. Wednesday, December 2 1 st, noon, to Tuesday, January 3rd, noon — Christmas Recess. Second Term. Tuesday, January 3rd, noon — Second Term Begins. Wednesday, January 4th — Special Winter Term in Agriculture Begins. Wednesday, February 1 st — Filing Subjects of Theses. Saturday, March 1 8th — Second Term and Special Winter Courses in Agriculture End. Third Term. Monday, March 20th, — Third Term Begins. Wednesday, April 1 2th, noon, to Tuesday, April 1 8th, 1 P. M. — Easter Recess. Monday, May 1 5th — Submitting of Theses. Sunday, June 1 1 th — Baccalaureate Sermon. Monday, June 1 2th — Class Day. Tuesday, June 1 3th — Alumni Day. Wednesday, June 14th, 11 A. M. — Commencement Day Exercises. 10

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ser.t to any address upon application. At present the mailing list contains over 25,000 names. Another irr,portant means by which the Station distributes information is by letters written in answer to specific inquiries from persons over the state. On several occas- ions, also, the Station has sent educational exhibits which makes the round of the principal fairs of the state. The interest of the Experiment Station for the agricultural students arises from their numerous walks over the Station grounds with Professor Taliaferro. How well we remember those trips! The professor would have us follow him thru the experimental grounds, delivering a running, or rather a walking lecture as we went, to those who kept beside him. Now and then he would stop, wait for the stragglers to catch up, then he would discourse at length upon something of especial interest in some experimental plot. The professor ' s constant warnmg, however, was Hands Off ! to those who wished to lay inquisitive fingers on Station property. Several of us can remember yet, what happened to us when he plucked a turnip which was perhaps an inch in diameter. Notwithstanding such little differences as this, we learned much on these walks. More irrportant than any facts that we absorbed, however, was the training we had in the art of observation. Without such a farm as this to be used for illustrative purposes, our training in these principles would have been much less complete. 12