Agricultural School Active
During the past week, Dean R.
L. Watts attended the annual meet
ing of the Connecticut Vegetable
Growers’ Association where he
made several addresses.
The Experiment station is plac
ing an exhibit at the National Corn
Show held at Dallas, Texas, Febru
ary 10 to 27. Practically all of the
states in the Union will have exhib
its at this meeting. Professor F.
D. Gardner, of the Department of
Agronomy, is vice-president of the
organization representing Pennsyl
vania and will act as one of the
judges in placing the corn from the
eastern zone.
The Lancaster County Tobacco
Growers’ Association will hold a
meeting and exhibit on February
10. The college will be reptesent
ed by Mr. E. K. Hibshman and
Professor W. H. Darst, who will
judge the corn.
Professor M. S. McDowell, bead
of the Department of Agricultural
Extension, addressed the annual
meeting of the State Board of Agri
culture at Harrisburg on January
28, his subject being "Carrying the
College to the People”.
The School of Agriculture, in co
operation with the Lehigh Valley
Railroad, will operate an education
al train over their railroad lines in
Wyoming, Bradford and Sullivan
Counties from February 10 to 17.
No formal lectures will be given
but the car will contain exhibits
showing how to select and care for
seed; how to test seed for germina
tion; and the treatment of diseases
that develop in the plant through
seed, 'two men from the college
will accompany this car to meet
the people and discuss these
questions informally.
Foresters in the Adirondacks.
The senior Foresters, under the
direction of Professor R. R. Chaf
fee, are in the Adirondack Moun
tains of New York state on the
annual lumber trip. This trip is
taken each year by the seniors in
the department of forestry for the
purpose of visiting and studying
lumber mills, logging operations
and wood utilizing industries.
Many places of interest will be
visited on this trip.
In Pennsylvania the State Forest
Nursery at Asaph; the Basket
Factory at Gaines; two lumber
mills, stave and heading mill, the
tannery and factories producing
hubs and novelties at Galeton; the
novelty factory at Telescope; the
woods operations of the Central
Pennsylvania and the Emporium
Lumber Companies at Walton, and
also the wood distillation plant; the
chemical factories and pulp mills at
Limon Run, and the paper and
pulp mills and the hardwood mills
at Austin will be visted.
In New York State they will visit
the basket factories at Penn Yan,
which are the largest in the country;
the forest nurseries of the New
York State Department of Forestry
at Saranac Inn; three sawmills of
Sherman Lumber Co., and the co
operage plant at Tupper Lake; the
sawmill of the Emporium Lumber
company at Conifes. They will
then spend three or four days on
the Cold River in the Adirondacks
as the guests of the Santa Clara
Lumber Company, making a study
of the logging operations of that
company which are carried on
throughout the winter over ice
roads. The trip will occupy about
two weeks.
A Forest Arboretum
The trustees of The Pennsylvania
State College at their recent annual
meeting set aside permanently a
large tract of land on the college
campus for the gradual develop
ment of an arboretum. The tract
reserved for this purpose lies to the
Each bite tastes better than the
others. This is what you will hear at
the Baked Ham and Baked Bean Sup
per given by the ladies of the Lutheran
Churcli on Thursday evening, February
12, 1914, and this is what you always
hear of our Samoset Chocolates.
Graham on the Corner.
south of Lover’s Lane and to the
west of the Forestry Woodlot, ex
tending to the old locust hedge, and
comprises some 50 or 60 acres.
The arboretum is to be in the
nature of a working arboretum of
woody plants for the use of the
Departments of Botany, Forestry
and Landscape Gardening. It is
planned to gather together in this
arboreuum the woody shrubs snd
trees indigenous to the state of
Pennsylvania. No such collection
now exists and from a botanical
standpoint such a collection will be
of of great value to botanists every
where. In addition all trees both
native and foreign to the country
that can be grown in the climate of
Pennsylvania will be planted. It is
planned to plant such trees as will
be of value for forest plantings in
clumps of a quarter acre so that
the trees will be grown under forest
conditions and develop the form of
bole and crown characteristic of
forest grown trees. In addition
these trees and all others will be
grown as individuals so as to bring
out the natural form and beauty of
the trees when grown in the open,
which makes them of value in
decorative work. In this way the
interests of the different depart
ments will be taken care of. Many
experiments will be carried on in
connection with the arboretum and
data taken on the growth and
development of the trees, their
value for forest and decorative pur
poses, and their suitability to the
climate of Pennsylvania. Planned
as it is, on so extreme a scale, there
is no question but that this arbor
etum will in time take its place
among the other famous tree gar
dens of the country.
Track Meet.
A strong team has been entered
in the John Hopkins meet next
Saturday evening. Coach Martin
planned the entries so that each
man will run in two events but a
fresh man will run in each event.
Captain Keyser will run the mile;
Leyden, the mile and half mile;
Entwistle the half mile and quarter
mile; Michener the quarter and 220
yard dash; White the 100 and 220
yard dashes; and Hammett the 100
yard dash and 100 yard hurdles.
A New Fraternity,
A charter has been granted by
the National Fraternity Beta
Samach, to the local Nehemiah
Club. The installation will take
place on April Ist, 2nd and 3rd.
Visit the Rooms
State College Billiard
and Bowling Co.
Up to date Tables
Up to date Alleys
Robinson Block
and
Under the Movies.
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Students’ Supplies
Prescriptions a Specialty
STATE JEWELRY
Whitman and Huyler Chocolates
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Miss Margaret Lacey, an actress
of some reputation will give a
monologue in the Auditorium on
Saturday evening on the play
"Every Woman.” The perform
ance will be of unusual,,interest.
The New Spring Hats
are here. A variety of extreme and conservative shapes,
Some clever new innovations that are distinctive and bound
to be popular as well as the more conservative styles. A
selection sufficently large, it affords a choice of securing the
proper shape and proportion —suitable and becoming for
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All the Standard Makes
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In madras and silk and cotton mixed materials. Some with
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New Neckwear at 50 cents and $l.OO
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A full assortment of (Allege
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