anaheim-gazette 1910-05-05

STATE INSTRUCTION FOR FARM STUDENTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL FARM AT DAVIS, CALIFORNIA College of Agriculture for Conducting Experiments and for Giving Instruction for Students — Regular Course for Three Years Does Not Fulfill Requirements for Entrance to College An act of the legislature of 1905 created a commission to select, and provided money to purchase, a farm for the University of California, to be called the university farm, and to be used through the college of agriculture for conducting experiments and for giving instruction to students in agriculture. The commission finally selected a farm of 780 acres of fine valley land near Davis, in Yolo county, which was purchased in 1906. Davis is thirteen miles west of Sacramento, and ten miles south of Woodland; it is at the junction of two branches of the Southern Pacific railroad, one leading into Oregon, the other to the east. The farm adjoins the town on the west, and lies along the north bank of Putah creek. Various divisions of the college of agriculture and agricultural experiment station are using portions of the farm for experimental purposes and to grow/feed for stock. The divisions of horticulture and viticulture have fifty acres planted or to be planted in trees and vines; the division of animal industry has eighty acres seeded to alfalfa and twenty acres more under preparation, also several acres in maize and stock beets. half story building (36x150 feet) and accommodates sixty students. There are also two-room suites with private baths, for the use of the matron and an Instructor. Modern conveniences in the way of heating, lighting and ample bathing facilities have been provided throughout; and with its large living room and comfortable furnishings the dormitory life is attractive and homelike. The dining-hall was completed during the fall. It is large enough to accommodate 125 boarders, and its plan will allow it to be greatly enlarged as the number of students increases. The kitchen is thoroughly equipped; adjoining it are refrigerating room, storerooms and laundry. Over the dining-room are several sleeping-rooms. The building has a steam heating system. A water and sewer system has been installed on the farm at a cost of $20,000. The water supply is pumped from a deep well into a 30,000-gallon tank at an elevation of sixty feet. Six inch pipes carry the water to all present buildings and on lines to supply many future buildings, and to fire-hydrants at necessary points. The disposal of sewage is by means of septic tanks from which it is pumped over an aerator and then applied to the land for irrigation. Six and eight-inch sewer pipes lead from the buildings to the septic tank, with concrete manholes at convenient intervals. This system has been planned and constructed with extreme care, to the end that all occupants of the farm and attendants upon the schools may be assured of sanitary surroundings. The University Farm School opened for instruction to regular students in January, 1909. Its purpose is to furnish a technical training in agriculture to those who do not wish, or who do not feel able, to pursue a college course. The regular course is Various divisions of the college of agriculture and agricultural experiment station are using portions of the farm for experimental purposes and to grow/feed for stock. The divisions of horticulture and viticulture have fifty acres planted or to be planted in trees and vines; the division of animal industry has eighty acres seeded to alfalfa and twenty acres more under preparation, also several acres in maize and stock beets. Under a special state appropriation cereal investigations are conducted up on fifty acres. The U.S. department of agriculture is conducting irrigation investigations upon thirty acres, in methods of applying water. About 8 acres are being fitted for experimental work by the poultry division. On several small areas eucalyptus trees are planted, variety tests of maize are under way, and Egyptian corn and other summer crops are grown. The larger part of the Farm is in hay and grain and is used experimentally as the needs require. For purposes of instruction in agriculture a number of buildings have been erected on the farm since its purchase, while others are being added as need arises and funds are available. The creamery (60x80 feet) is completely equipped for instruction in all branches of dairy industry. Heat and power for the machine are supplied by a forty-horsepower boiler. On the first floor, besides the engine-room, are rooms for separating, churning, cheesemaking, and for bottling milk and cream. On the second floor are a large milk-testing laboratory, the lecture rooms and offices of the dairy division, and the general administrative office of the farm. The horticultural building (60x80) is completely equipped. It contains large well-lighted laboratories for entomology, botany, chemistry, and soil study, as well as for horticulture and viticulture. A large assembly room, classroom and offices occupy the rest of the building. A greenhouse and plant propagation rooms adjoin the building on the south. The pavilion (60x80 feet) is a one-story octagonal building, with tiers of seats around a tan-bark ring. It is used for stock-judging and also as an auditorium for general meetings. Its seating capacity is about 600. The dairy barn consists of a main hay and feed portion (41x166) and two wings at right angles there-to (each 41x105). There is a concrete floor throughout and concrete manger, holes at convenient intervals. This system has been planned and constructed with extreme care, to the end that all occupants of the farm and attendants upon the schools may be assured of sanitary surroundings. The University Farm School opened for instruction to regular students in January, 1909. Its purpose is to furnish a technical training in agriculture to those who do not wish, or who do not feel able, to pursue a college course. The regular course is three years, and does not fulfill the requirements for entrance to college. After finishing the course in the school, however, a student can usually make up the remaining college entrance subjects, if he wishes to do so, by spending a year or two at an accredited high school. The course of study includes all the important branches of agriculture and which are followed in this state. The chief object of the course is to give the student an acquaintance with the natural laws on which agriculture now rests, so that he may cooperate with them when dealing with farm problems. A large proportion of the work is done in the laboratory, field and shop. Most of the time is spent on agricultural subjects; but English, history and mathematics are studied throughout the course. In the third year students are permitted to select the branch of work in which they are especially interested, for more thorough study. The school year is divided into two terms of about four months each. The first term begins early in September and runs until Christmas; the second term begins early in January and closes about May 1st. Instruction begins promptly at beginning of each term, and all students are expected to be present on the first day and to remain until the close of the term. Each student should have two double blankets, two pairs of sheets, three pillow cases, and hand and bath towels. Most of the beds are three-quarter width. Laundering of the bed linen and towels is done by the school Napkins are furnished and laundered for boarders at the dining-hall. Students residing in the dormitory are not expected to leave the building without permission after 7:30 p.m. From 7:30 until 9:30 p.m. students are expected to remain in their rooms for study. Rooms and halles should be quiet at all times, especially during the study hours in the evening. Students of the farm school are expected to abstain from the use of tobacco on the farm; gentlemanly The moral is for those able to keep their many years unless they indeed; and for teachers long time in one school to see these results of to be really a part of Rome is not built in... plant propagation rooms adjoin the building on the south. The pavilion (60x80 feet) is a one-story octagonal building, with tiers of seats around a tan-bark ring. It is used for stock-judging and also as an auditorium for general meetings. Its seating capacity is about 600. The dairy barn consists of a main hay and feed portion (41x166) and two wings at right angles there-to (each 41x105). There is a concrete floor throughout and concrete manger, and gutters. The east wing has stanchions for fifty-two cows, while the west wing is fitted with small stanchions for calves, and with ten box-stalls for cows at calving and for the bulls. The central part of the main barn is reserved for hay storage, while in the ends are driveways, feedrooms, a machinery room, and three sleeping rooms for attendants. Near the dairy barn a large horse barn and a sheep barn are completed. All the stock barns are located in this vicinity. The veterinary clinic is also a new building. It is fitted with operating room, anatomy room and laboratory, lecture rooms and offices. A stable for animals receiving medical and surgical attention forms a wing at right angles to the main building. The seedhouse is located on the cereal experimental tract, and is especially designed to meet the needs of the division of agronomy. This building has been doubled in size during the present year. Incubator, brooding, and laying houses are being erected to accommodate the work of the poultry division. It is expected that much experimental work will be carried on at the farm under appropriations made for poultry investigations. The dormitory is a two and one-napkins are furnished and laundered for boarders at the dining-hall. Students residing in the dormitory are not expected to leave the building without permission after 7:30 p.m. From 7:30 until 9:30 p.m. students are expected to remain in their rooms for study. Rooms and halls should be quiet at all times, especially during the study hours in the evening. Students of the farm school are expected to abstain from the use of tobacco on the farm; gentlemanly conduct is expected from all. The dormitory and dining-hall are under the care of a resident matron, who acts as hostess. A commodious living-room with a large fireplace forms the gathering place for all dormitory residents. This room is comfortably furnished with an abundance of easy chairs, large reading tables and piano. It is hoped that the social life of the school, centering about the dormitory, may be a pleasant and valuable means toward the education of all its students. An athletic association formed by the students of the farm school is affiliated with the Sacramento valley interscholastic athletic association. Base ball, basketball, and athletics are practiced, and contests held, on the farm and elsewhere, with other schools belonging to the association. A limited opportunity to earn part of their expenses by work on the farm may be offered to students who are thoroughly in earnest, and good workers. In general there is not enough work which can be done conveniently by students to supply the demand for it. Students should not come to the school expecting to earn a large proportion of their expenses. Very much time spent in this way must defeat its own end, by taking too much of the student's interest INTEREST TO EDUCATORS Pupils Should Learn to Stand Alone, If They Would Succeed State School Superintendent Hyatt favors us with a leaflet from which we take the following points of interest: The boy or girl who dares to stand alone, who dares to disagree with the crowd and who can stand right up for the unpopular side is well worth the intelligent attention of the teacher. True, this child is troublesome and disagreeable, perhaps. Often he is mistaken and unwise and bull-headed and on the wrong side. One is tempted by night and by day to sit down on him hard. The other children are so much pleasanter to deal with, they are so much more docile, they accept the teacher’s good rules so easily and agree so nicely with what one knows is right. But a great people must have Leaders as well as Followers; and the pig-headed one who stands up for what he believes against the whole crowd makes a safer leader than any of the docile ones who accept every dictum as gospel and question it not. Be wise, O Teacher. Don’t try to root out an independent spirit, mistakting it for a hateful weed. Watch for it as a rare flower, appreciate it and train it to wholesome growth. The right way to light a schoolroom is to have all the windows close together on the left of the pupils, placed in the rear part of the left wall. These windows should be separated by the narrowest casings possible; they should extend up as close to the ceiling as possible; and they must equal in glass area at least one fifth of the floor space. In front there should not be any LADY SO.D LIQUOR; JAIL Mrs. Measor of Delhi Runs Up Against Law’s Majesty Mrs. Katie Leasor is serving a sentence of 100 dys in jail for falling to be good. Shelives at Delhi, and was some time ag arrested on a charge of selling liquor. She was fined $100 by Justice Smithwick of Santa Ana, and a 100-day jail sentence withheld pending her god behavior. She promised to be good, but seems forgot it as soon as she was out of sight of the austere justice. Word came to the ears of Snta Ana officials that Mrs. Measor was again selling liquor at her Delhi jint, and officers swooped down upon the place one night last week and gathered in a miscellaneous colledon of booze hoisters, including Kati. She was hailed into court, and the sentence of 10 days in jail imposed upon her. It’s reported she will try for a writ of habeas corpus, and in the meantime Delhi remains dry. FRESH AR IN SCHOOLS Oakland Schol Director Has Sound Idea on Subject Oakland, My 3.—“Fresh uncooked air in constat supply will build up the children in the schools who are delicate and make the robust ones more vigorous,” says Dr. H. K. Foster, director of the Oakland school department o health development, in discussing pins for new fresh air school buildings in this city. “In the wntry east,” Dr. Foster states, “children are warmly clothed and taught a rooms that have one or two sides open to the weather,and not only thrive in health but make better progress in their studies. Some of the children who are making these The right way to light a schoolroom is to have all the windows close together on the left of the pupils, placed in the rear part of the left wall. These windows should be separated by the narrowest casings possible; they should extend up as close to the ceiling as possible; and they must equal in glass area at least one fifth of the floor space. In front there should not be any opening whatever to admit light, neither window nor door nor transom—hardly even a keyhole. The windows should all have blinds for regulating the light. Venetian blinds are best, for they admit light without letting the direct rays strike the eyes. Ordinary blinds may be arranged in two parts, so that the lower sash may be shaded, while the upper is open to the light. The reason for wise care in managing the light of schoolrooms is that children must always sit in one place and are not free to move so as to adopt themselves to changing conditions of light. It is a horrible thing for school trustees or teacher to ruin the sight of a helpless child for life. Yet it has been estimated that a bushel of eyes are damaged every year by the defective lighting of schoolrooms. Frequent changes in teachers and superintendents cause much loss of educational energy in California. No one can do his best work in a single term. The experience that a teacher builds up at the expense of the people is very valuable to the people, and should not be thrown lightly aside. The acquaintance with the different children and people, the knowledge of their peculiarities, the familiarity with the regular routine of work, are all of cash value to the schools; but it is all lost with every change. Sometimes these changes are the fault of the employers, sometimes of the employees. In either event usually nothing is gained—the new position is about the same as the old,and the new employee has about the same ability as his predecessor. So it goes on, world without end. The moral is for trustees and people to keep their school employees many years unless they are very bad indeed; and for teachers to stay a long time in one school, long enough to see the results of their work and to be really a part of the community. Rome is not built in a day. Anaheim beer 90c per doz.; Los Dr. Foster states, "children are warmly clothed and taught a rooms that have one or two sides open to the weather,and not only thrive in health but make better progress in their studies. Some of the children who are making these records werelaggards under the five-hour foul-air egime. "It costs little or no more to build fresh air school rooms than to build the conventional dead-air sort. Until such time as bonds are voted for permanent buildings temporary one-story structures will be erected in different parts of the city. All that is required is a room open on one or two sides, with perhaps a glass roof. The open sides may be protected by canvass to be used only in case of severe storm. "Fresh air and light are nature's disinfectants and disease germs cannot live in them. What is of even more importance, they give strength and vigor to the living cells, thus increasing the resistance of the child so that he does not easily fall a victim to disease. Here in sunny California it is certainly the height of folly to deprive our children of the two things which go so far in the building of life's foundation. "Fresh air in schools is largely the outcome of anti-tuberculosis campaigning. The fact that light and abundant fresh air aid cure where medicine fails to cure is breaking down the deadly old prejudices which favor lifeless, baked air, fouled perhaps by other breathings. When the fresh air sentiment gets into all the homes,thetheatres, the moving picture shows, the churches, the shops and offices a large proportion of the white crusaders will be looking for new fields to conquer." RIPLEY IN LOS ANGELES Head of Santa Fe Looking Over Company's Property on Coast E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe railroad, is in Los Angeles for a week's stay previous to his departure for Chicago. He has vacated his winter home at Santa Barbara. During his stay in Los Angeles he is at the home of his son, F. G. Ripley, of 2505 West Adams street. Mr. Ripley's stay here will give an impetus to the several lines of expenditures being made by the system in the new employee has about the same ability as his predecessor. So it goes on, world without end. The moral is for trustees and people to keep their school employees many years unless they are very bad indeed; and for teachers to stay a long time in one school, long enough to see the results of their work and to be really a part of the community. Rome is not built in a day. Anaheim beer 90c per doz.; Los Angeles beer $1 per doz. For sale by the California Wine Co., Conrad Bros., proprietors. from the work of the school. The rent of rooms in the dormitory ranges from $4 to $6 per month; most of the rooms are $6. The cost of board in the dining-room is $18 per month. No rebate can be made for meals missed, unless the student is necessarily absent for a week or more; in such cases the loss will be shared equally with the student. The board and room rent are payable monthly in advance. Tuition in the school is free to residents of California. Students from other states pay a fee of $10 per term To help meet the cost of materials actually used by the students in the classroom and laboratory, an incidental fee of $5 per term or $10 per year is charged.. In addition to this, each student is required to pay for the breakage of scientific apparatus used in any course. Head of Santa Fe Looking Over Company's Property on Coast E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe railroad, is in Los Angeles for a week's stay previous to his departure for Chicago. He has vacated his winter home at Santa Barbara. During his stay in Los Angeles he is at the home of his son, F. G. Ripley, of 2505 West Adams street. Mr. Ripley's stay here will give an impetus to the several lines of expenditures being made by the system in the west and on the Pacific coast for betterments. He will review the progress made on the contracts for double tracking the system west of Albuquerque, the installing of the telephone system to replace the telegraph for train dispatching, the work that is being done in reducing grades and straightening line, and will put his final OK on the plans for the big new machine repair shops to be built at San Bernardino. "We are caring for more traffic and spending more for betterments on the system than in any previous year in the history of the railroad," said Mr. Ripley. "We have $30,000,000 to expend for betterments and the program provides for the expenditure of approximately $7,000,000 west of Albuquerque this year." Something special every day on our line of buggies. Look them over before you buy elsewhere. Wm. F.Lutz Co., Santa Ana. 3-17tf Besides Carrying a Complete Line of Sherwin-Williams Paint The highest grade of Family Paint to be had, we have just added a complete line of Best Medium Price Paint we could find. 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