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Old 02-11-2024, 12:23 PM   #150
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Originally Posted by Buehler445 View Post
That stopped being relevant prior to 1920. Hilariously the wheatbelt (which Wichita is in the heart of) was opened up in large part due to mechanization. Hilariously, WSU chose to focus on the remaining manual part of the procedure. In case you don't know, shocks of wheat were put together by manually cutting down a wheat crop with a scythe and manually bundling it into schocks, so they could be stored and wait for a threshing machine. That was fairly short lived until mobile combine harvesting operations came. But nonetheless, the important part of the procedure is the mechanical threshing, and WSU chose to focus on the manual, least progressive part of the whole protocol. Well done.

Fast forward a century and there is no agronomy at all and the mechanical engineering department offers nothing specific to agriculture. All this for a land grant university. So your mascot is just trying to fake it's connection with agriculture. Nice.

KSU doesn't try to fake a connection to Agriculture, because it, you know, has one. Consistent with it's charter as a land grant university.

But yeah, keep educating us on Agriculture and your mascot. Thanks for that.
Cool story bruh. All I said was it’s not a bundle of sticks it’s a bundle of wheat.

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