The Aggie News, January 1929
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+ --+ mfCollwe, February 4 - 8. f Attend the Little Interm- $ THE ACGIE NEWS tional, February 8. $ 2 3 VOLUME V. BROOKINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA-JANUARY 15, 1929 NUMBER 2 State College Farmers Week, Feb. 4 to 8 MEMBER CLASS '15 Enrollment of Corn Developed by College WANTS REUNION Does Well In Northern Section li'AR!WRs WEEK STUDENTS ASSN. School of Ag. i OF THE SCHOOL The Aggie News and the class I Introduced into Walworth county WILL BE WELD of 1916: It was my privilege the1 (four years ago, the Alta variety first part of October to visit the l of yellow dent corn bred by the FEB. 4TH TO 8Tfl college experiment station has Riven such good results that its Agricultural interests of the state By :School of Agriculture. I found Everett Gillis. many changes had taken place on I popularity has already spread to will again be centered at State col- The Student's Aakociation of the the old campus and building in the \ most of the north central section ,leg0 when the annual edncational School of Agriculture is making last six years. The Old North ! of south Dakota and to several lprogram known as Fanners' Week and carrying out extensive plans building was standing there as of i counties west of the river. This,is held here from Febmary fourth for the term of 1928 and 1929. old and on the second floor I found year, according to rep* from to ninth, inclusive. Professor Kum- Many new ideas have been in- the office of Professor Scarbro of {that area, Altn again gave an ex- (kin announced today that plans for cluded in the program as odlined the School of A~culture. It was, 1 cclieni account of itself, most of this event are being formulatd last year, which denotes progress indeed, a pleasure to meet Pro- Ithe fields being ready for field se- Iand that the program is pretty and advancement in the social du- fessor Scarbro who has takm such leetion of seed by the fit week'well mapped out. cation of the A&-. .a great interest in the school and [of September nnd pduring an 1 Three parallrl pmgmm; are be- every shdent its students, so that it is becom- ,abundance of seed for next year. ing made out which will Cover prae- upon enrolling, IValworth county farmers report tically every phase of agriculture in pays a certain fee the ~~~d~~t~~ing a stronger institution each I These three a* Association for activities. The sum ye". I P. J. Scarhro 8 that barring some well adapted lo- this state. * is budgeted by the Board of Con- TO me the education of Our farm ical strains of Minnesota No. 13 and Farm propm, 110memaker's Pro- the ame of Rustler's White Dent and gram, and the Indian -ice Pro- trol, of mpresentatives boys and girls becomes a duty and The schools enrollment is fmm the four classes of the school. a sacred responsibility in the lead-! largest this year in the history,i -Northwestern dmt, Alt. is aPPar- mm. Several we1I-knoWn outside When school was:ently the only variety of dent corn speakers will b. here durin~ the F~ the Purpose of budpting enhip of our young men and wo- of the school. tomorrow. an1 to reach maturity in this gear's week. carrying out the duties of the As- organized in 1908 they had is I It has always been my dedm ,enrollment of 103. The. enroll-!unfavorable grow in^ season. I The fdrm sociation, the is George Huff of Selby, and hn-'around the theme of livestock Pro- each, division caring for thedivided; acti- / that the dass of 1915 issue an an- ! merit in 1914 - 1915 was 266. ~n nUal class letter. It serves dome- 1915 the school wduaW 52, ty Agent L. C. Lippet were re- duction to meet market demands- vities listed under its head and '"-,what that purpose of a prsonal I which was the largest class mdu- sponsible .for bringing Alta to A special feature will be the pre- They got,sentation of ''market outlook ma- der the suwwision Of a compebi letter in that it informs one just 1 aM from the three year course. their terntory in 1924. ent member of the board. seed directly from the State col- I terial" for products of South business a little of what his old class mates 'During 1919-1920 the record show8 The the issodat!onlare doing from time to time and I,an enmllmnt of 333, however, a lege experimental station at High- kotn. In these are Moded live- is pnutica'ly 'Overed Onder nlne'where louted. Through Mr. Smr-; I== percentage of this noup more and planted 21 acres on Mr. 'stock and kindred tnodUet.. pou1. heads Or divisions and is compOs-lbro we could =cure our class wnr Huff's farm near Sitka. It yield- try and -, and vain. ed of: 1-basketball, which students who took covers change of names and add==. a pa* of their work in the school. ed almost 50 bushels per acre that The Co-o~enti~e Gmras the budgeting of the for Through this source of being in year and won the 10-acre corn South Dakota, fie Ddm acti~typwhich Our enrollment for 1928-1929 is bas-itOUCh with one another we could as follows: Fmshmen, 90; wphb growing test, in Walworth county. AoTstein, Gurnsey. ket trips the state Poalt~As- to other'~ometime in the near future (say moRs, 72; juniors, 69; Fmm this field of 21 acres the for and this coming summer) plan a class 61; swcial students, 2 or a tobl of variety has mwn in popularity the Baby Chick As- sweaters for the playem earning ranion to be held at some central until it is now produced on almostlsociation. will hold their annual them under the 294 studenb. e hi^ dvesus 25% of the point. I think now with good inctease in total enrollment all the farms in northern IValwnrth business meetings On Thursday, stitution of the Associatione This roads and our automobiles county and has spreari to Campbell, I and on Thundas cvenin~a Farm- 1 laat our r,ro~lment war year a very schedule of,could get away from work and war- four,h lnrpr. than be rames has been amnged for the ry for at least a couple of days gear. our senior ,.lass is AgRies and under the instruction vacation. I, for one, would try to est in the history of the of the coach, the players should be them. college as Master Farmers, a title ,which is conferreti upon farmers Alta has who have been particularlv sue- con. h cesdul in their line of work. The records program will end with the Little ~i~.j International Livestock S h 0 W. been which is sponsored by the A& club of the college. The Homemakers prOgl.am is t.6 feature "health in the home" and -anationally known speaker who is a licensed physician, will speak. Dr. Caroline Hedger will Rive fo* College Enrotlment Inter-Academy addresses dealing with health, and the child. At this promm dele- are awarded sweaters under the and its future progress. frm the various Home EX- Association's rules, requiring a westin Histor@ Debate Held i,, An Alumni 1 bnsion clubs of the state will be certain score to be shot in the An *lUmni Member' Has h~crea~edAhnoat 50 Per Cent Students of the Schml of A@ P~M~~ matches. 3-Inter-academy de- Mrs. Grace Lindsey Steinhoff, Miss Clan Sntter, poultry ed- bate. The most promising debat- 101 No. Moore Street, I* Past Five Years Many Tram- culture are showi~considerable) interest in inter-academy debating. 1 itor of the magazine 'OThe Fam- ers in the student body are chosen Ottumwa, Iowa. Wife" will be toastmistress to represent the school in the de- jndning from the present inter- er's est and enthusiasm shown, the at a banquet for the wo- bate teams which compete with I The largest collegiate enmllment men. Miss was :in the histov of the college has school should have a good team. teams from other sdhoois. he Farm Economics I extension specialist here. board member in charge of this !been reported by college officials. Friday, December 7th, try-outs ;poult~ Dept. Makes Study were held and a squad of eight several of the state division arranges with the coach in I ~t the opening of the second week the charge of debating for trips to a substantial were chosen from a group of ap-lawarded of Combine Uses of school, then proximately twenty students. The H~n'm'nakemin c*"~eratiOn with other schools. Also submit recom- ilWrefW0 over last asenroll- "The Farmer's Wife." This title is lment and late arrivals increased following people made the squad: mendations to the Board of Con- quite similar in simificance to that trol for standard School of Api- That large-scale cutting withlthe lead over last year. ~d~i~cunningham, conde; Verne. Sallqoist, '29, ~ihhcock;lof culture me~lals,which are awarded hawestcr - thresher combines is 1 Fimres covering the five year The Indian Service program will Ward Parsons, '29, Miller; Walter l to every debater on the teams who one of the principal causes of ex- 'period since President C. W. figs- many aearian fea*es' makes a creditable showing. iceas moistore of cmbm&ICY has directed the instihtion dis- Sl~um, 29, Glenham; Carml Breese, '29, Danforth: Kemneth Hel- them swine p*- 5.-4r0ps and juddng is -in was point& out today by G.,close the fact that the collegiate duction, poultry ~roductioh field a new activity just starting last Lundy, of the department of farm enrollment has increased almost 50 sel* '21, ~~~f~~~l;perry D~~~~~, '29, Roscoe; John BalTon, '29, ~lk-, C~OP~, ve~etable and fruit gt.o*ng, year but pined a foothald and is economics.