Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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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

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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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COLLEGE OF HOME ECONOMICS iflfi ij n 111 1 ■ 111 mm i i v (F ! r If (f v. JHKVPGEaamM; Up ISPL VAN DO REN HALL T HE College of Home Economics endeavors to help prepare women to meet their responsibilities as wage-earners, home makers and good citizens. The courses of instruction given in this college are planned to meet the needs of four classes of students: (a) Those specializing in other lines of work, but desiring a knowledge of the general principles and facts of home economics as a part of a liberal education. (b) Those who wish to make a specialty of home economics for the purpose of teaching the subject in secondary schools as well as teacher training under the Smith-Hughes act. (c) Those who wish a knowledge of the principles underlying household administration and institutional management. (d) Those who desire to make a detailed study of home eco¬ nomics in its relation to the arts and sciences which are fundamental in the management of the home. Twenty-six