Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE mtrn WILSON HALL The College of Agriculture is composed of ten departments and furnishes full four-year collegiate courses in the following groups: Farm Crops; Soils; Animal Husbandry; Dairy Husbandry; Poultry Husbandry; Horticulture; Landscape Gardening; Plant Pathology; Forestry; Range Management; Agricultural Journalism; Farm Management and Farm Business; Agricultural Engineering. Short courses in agriculture, eight weeks in length, are offered each year beginning after the holidays. Two and four weeks’ courses in gas engines and tractors and two weeks’ courses for creamery men also are given at this time. Twenty-four

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Dear Alumni and Former Students: More and more college people are coming to realize that for the welfare of their Alma Mater it is of fundamental importance that they keep in touch with its activities. It is axiomatic that this should be so, for if those who have been intimately associated with the college are not interested in its growth and develop¬ ment, it is hardly to be expected that those who have never been within its walls will concern themselves with its problems. Particularly is this true for state institutions in these times of unusual financial depression. Every year the State College of Washington sends out into the world a large number of graduates, and every year at least twice that number leave the college, for some good and sufficient reason, never to affiliate with another institution. It is safe to assume that over 75 per cent of these former students are loyal “cougars” to the same extent as the graduates, in that their interest and loyalty is centered in the one college they have attended. Many of the most loyal and enthusiastic workers the State College of Washington has in the different communities of the state are those who from the force of circumstances were never privileged to receive a degree. Upon the devotion and loyalty of the alumni and former students the College must at all times depend. This is a state institution, but there are many of those who love it. They feel and know that they are a part of it, and that it in turn is a part of them. They are reflecting in their lives the ideals that they received while in its atmosphere. Should danger threaten the College they would unhesi¬ tatingly hasten to its support. Today there may be no danger, yet tomorrow it may come like a thunderbolt from a clear sky and a permanent injury be effected before the loyal forces of the College could be rallied to its support. Realizing this fact, alumni and former students are more and more inclined to keep in touch with the activities of the College, know its progress and its problems. The importance of this awakening cannot be over-emphasized. Cordially yours, HARRY M. CHAMBERS, Alumni Secretary. Twenty-three

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NO. 1—The experimental lots in the lamb feeding experiments, conducted at the Irrigation Branch Sta¬ tion at Prosser, 1921. NO. 2—Feeding 1,650 in a feeding experiment at the Irrigation Branch Experiment Station at Prosser, Washington, 1922. General view of feed lots and some Station Buildings. NO. 3—Making Better Wheats. Experimenting with varieties of wheats in the cereal Nursery at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Pullman. NO. 4—Threshing experimental variety plots at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Pullman. NO. 5—Making Silage from sunflowers grown at the Experiment Farm. An agricultural experiment station as a part of the College of Agriculture is maintained at Pullman with branch stations at Lind, Waterville and Prosser. The Dean of Agriculture is also the director of the station. The majority of the teaching staff of the College of Agriculture are members of the experiment station staff. The College of Veterinary Science and the Departments of Zoology, Entomology and Botany also are represented. In addition, three branch station superintendents, three chemists, one specialist in soils and three crop specialists devote full time to the experiment station work. Between fifty and sixty specific projects and problems are being studied by the station. Twenty-five