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* HE IRRIGA T10N A GE. 



cultural course must be at least 16 years 

 old and pass examination in English, geog- 

 raphy, physiology and hygiene, history of 

 the United States and England, Greece or 

 Rome, plane geometry, elementary algebra, 

 and either Greek or Latin, and French or 

 German, or advanced mathematics. 



It is pretty much the same with all the 

 other agricultural colleges. The student 

 gets practical instruction and assists in 

 practical work, obtaining at the same time 

 the benefit of experiments made for the 

 purpose of improvement in cultivation 

 and in the quantity and quality of farm 

 products. There is the same enthusiastic 

 and, in some respects, extravagant devo- 

 tion to athletics that obtains in other col- 

 leges, and there are musical, literary and 

 social societies with more or less of clan- 

 nishness and secrecy. There are college 

 papers and annuals, in which some serious 

 journalistic work and not a little lampoon- 

 ing is done. The students are leading 

 earnest and useful and happy lives, and 

 they are judged by the same moral stand- 

 ards as are men and women throughout the 

 country. They do much severe mental 

 work, and enjoy the sports and recreations 

 of college life to the full. 



With an institution of this sort in 

 almost every State in the Union, the 

 American farmer of the near future ought 

 to be at the head of the procession of those 

 who feed the world. Chic >go Tribune. 



efficiency of the Correspondence Courses 

 in Agriculture. 



WINTER COURSES DISCONTINUED. 

 On account of insufficient appropria- 

 tions by the Legislature, the trustees of 

 The Pennsylvania Sttote College have 

 been compelled, along with other meas- 

 ures of retrenchment, to discontinue for 

 the present the twelve-weeks Winter Lec- 

 ture Course in Agriculture and the Cheese- 

 making Course. The Creamery Course 

 Avill be given as heretofore, beginning 

 January 3d, and the work of the regular 

 ' four-years' course and of the special one- 

 year course, will go on as usual. Special 

 efforts will also be made to increase the 



SUGAR FACTORY. 



If the Pecos Valley Beet Sugar Com- 

 pany were not doing business in Carlsbad 

 there would not, on the 15th of every 

 month, during active operations, be paid 

 out to labor in the company's factory 

 $6000; there would not be paid to farmers 

 for beets shipped $10,000; there would 

 not be paid to the railroad company a 

 large sum for freight on beets in and sugar 

 out; these sums would not be distributed 

 among the people and the trade of Carls- 

 bad and vicinity if there were no factory 

 here. Farmers would be denied a cash 

 market for a very profitable crop, and agri- 

 cultural endeavor would be forced into 

 another line of effort. But Carlsbad has 

 the factory, and the result is that the sums 

 mentioned will be paid out on the 15th of 

 every month during the campaign. Farm- 

 ers are guaranteed a crop that can be 

 raised and sold with certainty and profit, 

 and the agricultural and trade interests 

 are founded upon a substantial and un- 

 changing foundation. 



This is what the factory means to Carls- 

 bad at the present day, and with enlarge- 

 ment of operations its influence upon the 

 property of the town and country will in- 

 crease. Ten thousand tons of beets will 

 be harvested this seaon. Next year the 

 tonnage will be doubled. Every fanner 

 raising beets this year will plant again, 

 and plant increased acreage, while the 

 abrogate nu.nber of growers will be 

 laruely increased. It will be as easy a 

 matter to secure double the acreage the 

 coming year as it \vas to secure the pres- 

 ent planting this season. 



W. \\. llolalnnl, of Los Angeles, Cal., 

 says of Pecos Valley and iis sugar factory: 



Twenty-six years ago I began the study 

 of soils in connection with the subdivision 

 of railway land grants. It was most nat- 

 ural in the work engaged that I should 

 carefully note the character of crops pro- 

 duced on certain s-oils and the conditions 



