Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 15, 1925, Page 45

25 tion rican | tha ralty SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1925 GYMNASIUM (¢ MAJOR ASSET Many Departments to Benefit From New Improvement. (Continued from Page Six} With John Corbett as director of physical training, William Lee as trainer, and G. R. McConnell and mes Lynch as boxing and wres- tling coaches, respectively, it looks as though the University would rank high tn conference sports this season. Already a victory of the Varsity over Montana and the splen- did showing of the freshmen on the gridiron last fal! augur triumphs ahead. Reorganization of A. 8. U. W. fi: nances, and a material strengthen. ing of the student committee are other things that augur well for col. lege athletics in the year ahead. In addition to carrying more sports, notably boxing, in which the Unt. versity team won the conference championship last year, the commit- tee confidently expects to cut a $5,000 deficit by 50 per cent by the end of the year. In one department, that of debate, the University has made a record that would be hard to equal any- where; a record that was rocently capped by the notable victory of Ralph Conwell and Herbert Wood- man over two of the best debaters of Oxford University. Both of these brilliant young Englishmen were seasoned debaters with enviable rec- ons at home and abroad. For the success of the home team, and earl. fer successes scored both by the men's and the women's teams of the University, a large measure of credit is due Debate Coach H. H. Higgins. Since he joined the University fac- ulty two years ago the debate teams of the University have lost only four out of thirty-seven debates, and the women's team for three years has been uniformly successful, vic- torious in every debate. The suc- cessful tour of the men’s team last year in which it invaded Cadandian territory and the strongholds of de- bate teams on the Pacific coast, is to be duplicated in effect this spring by the undefeated women's team. This remarkable record in debate, approached by few colleges or un. iversities in this or any other coun- try, holds a suggestion of big things for the future that are even bigger than the record debate. What the debate team has done on a ground- work of good material and coaching the University should be able to do in others lines. There {s no good reason. why this splendid state insti- tution, waxing greater every day, should not soon excel in scholarship and athletics, as the debaters have excelled. Here is the debate record, as published recently in the Brand. ing Iron, official organ of the stu- dent body: Debatea Schoot Colorado College Denver University Colorado Aggies Colorado Teachers Colorado University Utah University Nevada University Colo. Woman's College Nebraska State Normal Pomona College Montana Uniersity Montana Aggies Gooding College College of Idaho Whitman College College Puget Sound Unity. British Columbia Pacific University Linfield College Wiltamette College College of Pacific Univ. Southern California California Tech Brigham Young Univ, Oxford University 2 EJ OM HOM ee to tO pt tO to to OF te RS eh ler Any TS Ar IR ed [orp ° e 8 Extension Department How the extension service, a uni. versity department maintained as a three-fold partnership of federal government, state and county—how this department and the College of Agriculture are giving invaluable Service to the farmers and ranchers of the state and to the student far- mers and the canchers-to-be would provide material for a book far more readily than it fits into a brief and hastily prepared newspaper ar- Ucle. Control and operation of the eight state farms placed in the hands of the university by the state legislature of 1923 is merely one of the important duties shared by the university with the extension ser- vice. Due to lack of funds only those farms at Archer, Lyman and Tor- rington were actively operated last year, However, the other five are held in readiness against the time when funds are available. Data compiled by John Hill, dean of the College of Agriculture, and director of the experiment station and by W. L. Quayle, director of state farms, shows that the exten- sion service promoted the following industries: Certified seed potatoes from noth- ing to a total of $327,000 in five years, or $65,000 annually. Turkey raising from nothing in 1919 to $500,000 crop in 1924. Increased acreage of corn from 96,000 acres to 165,000 acres in four years. Improvements in lUvestock: (1) Increased in four years, hogs, 20,- 000 head; dniry cattle, 5,000 head; number of farms assisted in obtain- ing pure-bred livestock, 10,006. Egg production increased by $360,000 in six years. In 1924 the following enterprises were carried on by it: 1,195 bo: and girls enrolled in club work. Gave individual instruction in 1924 to 4,120 women in a campaign for better home condition: ‘West of Casper, near the crossing of the Sweetwater river by the old Oregon trail Mes Independence Rock, where the hundrds cf Pioneers ys stopped to mend their outfits and rest after a weary trek across the plains. ge meeting in Wyoming, participated in by a group of Masons who were travelini The anniversary event of this meeting was celebrated a few years ago by the Wyoming Grand Lodge, oration of the event. who rushed to California, Utah and the northwest !n early da: On the top of this mommoth pilé washeld the first Masonic lod, into the setting sun early In the 50's, which unveiled a bronze tablet on the rock in commem: Reached 7,000 men in demonstrat- ing better farm practices, and by Personal instruction. 14,130 men and women adopted better practives advocated by the extension service. 48,635 men and women reached in demonstrations, personal instruction and other meetings, Co-operated {n 17 counties in ro. dent control campaign. Prepared exhibits in 15 counties for State Fair. Valuable Service Shown Other valuable service shown: Archer developed rust proof wheat and distributed seed in {ts neighborhood which increased the wheat yield in 1923 eight bushels per acre The same increase in the en- Ure spring wheat area in Wyoming would have meant an increase of 1,- 280,000 bushels in 1923 and would have added $768,000.00 to the wealth of the state. Archer demonstrated S{berian wheat grass which has produced annual average of one’ ton of fine hay per acre on dry land for a pe- riod of six years. Archer demonstrated that the wu of improved methods of culture {; creased winter wheat yield 8.3 bush- els per acre. A similar increase in the yield oh the winter wheat area of Wyoming in 1923 would have amounted to 124,000 bushels, worth $74,200, Archer demonstrated the value of the sunflower silage. Torrington tested hundreds of va- rieties of corn and potato seed for farmers. Torrington raised corn producing 121 bushels of corn per acre {n 1923. Torrington proved conclusively that Wyoming corn produces better and cheaper feeding results than Ne- braska corn. Don’t Do You Know? Over $2,000,000.00 was paid for L by Wyoming people during 1928? You Think We could use that $2,000,000.00 in Wyoming? Why Not Help to build the Home Company? We have some securities left. If interested, write us YellowstoneNational Lifelns.Co. ZUTTERMEISTER BUILDING CASPER, WYO. ife Insurance Che Casper Daily Cribune JIMPROVEMENTS KEEP PACE WITH GROWTH OF SCHOOL PAGE SEVEN re Provide an exceptional assortment| frist division but for the illness of of sheep. ® key man, and actually did upset Several fine flocks of chickens/the dope by taking second placo and a flock of turkeys have been added to livestock quiet rencently; a modern poultry plant is now one of the features of the farm, as is a Parisitology building conducted by Dr. J. W. Scott, whose contribu- tons to knowledgs of the diseases of farm animals are familiar to experts in his line of work throughout the nation. The wisdom of adding fowl to the livestock of the farm has been repeatedly confirmed, most re- cently by the state-wide attention commanded, aspecially among farm wives, by the egg-laying cont Judging Teams Advance. Several charts showing progress and performance of livestock judg- ing tears at Denver, Kansas City and the Chicago International have been prepared by Profesor Fred Hultz, head of the department of Animal Husbandry at the Univer sity. Supplemented by other data| amply demonstrated in the fact th theso charts are an illustration of] the twenty-one breeds of livestc the fact that Wyoming has climbed|!n 1924 are just one more t in two years from a humble place| double the breeds boasted by t ° near the bottom of the list to a| livestock farm in 1922. In a sé Position only one-third from the top| progress of the livestock farm and that, too, in keenest competition | marks final transition from oper at Chicago with twenty-four teams! range conditions to systematie pro representing a vast area extending | duction of quality stuff. from the high plateaus of inland| Here are a few outstanding and egainst the entire fleld in individual compettion.- It is worth noting, too, that the Wyoming man lost first Place by a narrow margin of only two points out of a possible 250 in the beef cattle division—an almost perfect score, Progress of student and farm are rather strickingly set forth in a able prepared by Mr. Hultz. This shows that Wyoming was represent- ed at only one show !n 1922, that at Denver, as compared with repre- sentation last year at Denver, Kan- it. sas City and Chicago. In 1924 the University won two championships two first prizes, four second prizes, two third prizes, one fourth, on fifth and one seventh prize, as co pared with a total blank two years before. And the increase of stock has kept pace with the increasing competence of the student judges, as Sowa Sas PUES GURL Lander developed fizteen reliable, hardy varieties of excellent fruit. Lyman demonstrated that sweet clover pasture increased milk pro- duction 15 per cent and doubled car- rying capacity of farm. The state farms sell $5,000 worth of produce per year. Other farms have equally valuable experiments now under way whose results cannot be known without longer experience. Farming Demonstrated Operated also by the university are. the horticultural experiment farm at Lander, the industrial school farm at Worland, the latter in co-operation with the State Board of Charities and Reform, and the stock farm and the agronomy farm at Laramie. Both of these latter are models of their kind and are becom- ing more favorably known each year through practical successes and through the showler laurels won at fair and stock show. The county agent and the home demonstration agent have brought the extension service into even closer and more in- timate contact with the people of the rural districts. Through these outposts of intelligent progressivism in livestock growing and agriculture the work of the extension service has been carried into nearly every county of the state. ‘The University stock farm has es- tablished an astonishing record in the last few years for growth and accomplishment, the most recent and perhaps the most notable ex- ample being the purchase of the stud of purebred Percherons from the famous herd of J. O. Singmaster and Son. Comprised in this stud is @ stallion of the very best blood and quality and four brood mares com- parable in all particulars with the Canada to teh tidewater of Virginia. | significant facts as set forth In competition at Chicago this| notes by Mr. Hultz The Percherons are an important| Wyoming for the purpose of exper- year Wyoming was seriously handi-| 1923-1924—Univeristy of Wyoming acquisition from any one of a num- er of angles. In the first place they Provide the one element for student study in which the Univeristy has been weak— a heavy draft animal ‘ssepsing the ideal points of such. imentation in the building up of a better saddle and light draft horse. ‘Then, too, there is a standard bred stud. capped by the iliness of one of five principals constituting the regular team. Despite this {t won second place tn the division of fringe states, the term “fringe used by Mr. Hultz to distinguish “border” states like judging teams at big shows have been placed ofe or more t@nes above teams from the following schools: Colorado, Iowa, Purdue, North Da ota, Texas, Michigan, Pennsylvani New York, Massachusetts, Virginta In the beef cattle department are Then, too, the progeny of these| the Shorthorns and the Herefords,| Wyoming from the great livestock | West Virginia, Guelph, Alberta mightily muscled kings of draftdom| with a few Angus for experimenta-| states of the middle West where | Manitoba. will play an important part through-|tion in feeding, Holsteins and| purebred cattle has been judged,| Livestock shown in’ 1922 at Den out the state a little later on in| Guernseys comprise the dairy divi-| corn-fed and coddled for many years. | ver, aix lambs, in 1924 at Denver building up blooded herds of a high-| sion. Some fine specinn of the] Besides experience, these middle| cattle, sheep and hogs. Won the ly desirable type. The farm also] Duroc and Poland China are found| western states also have the assets | following prizes: boasts a thoroughbreed stud shared] in the hog division, while Ramboul-| of older and larger institutions. Yet Two champion, two first prizes by the federal government with! lets, Corriedales and into (Cont'nued on Page Bight) Shropshires Wyoming might have broken The Majority of High School Graduates Attending Universities and Colleges Have Chosen The University of Wyoming Because | 1 The University of Wyoming is the only Institution of its rank placing special emphasis upon the study of WYOMING economic and social problems, 2 The University of Wyoming charges the smallest pos- sible tuition fees and living expenses are kept com- paratively low, 3 The University of Wyoming ts noted for the demo- cratic spirit of its student and faculty bodies. im im a Ae 4 The University of Wyoming offers, on a single campus, courses of instruction in five great colleges— Law, Engineering, Agriculture, Education and Lib- eral Arts, renin vy ’ § The University of Wyoming is a member of The Asso- ciation of American Universities and its credits are ac- cepted anywhere in America or Europe. 6 The University of Wyoming, through the new gym- nasium, now gives special attention to the physical development of ALL its students. The University of Wyoming Over 100 Per Cent Increased Enrollment in Five Years. ‘An Even More Rapid Growth During the Next Five Years