Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-19
LEARN PRACTICAL FARMING.

tle oth udy Vi Jan. loJO. nc couiee
is designed for the sons of farmers who
are unable to leave the farm except in
the winter season. The cost of the
course has been brought down to the
level OF the public schools. There is
no charge for tuition, no fees OF any
kind for the use of laboratory or chem
icals or apparatus. There is Com
mons Hall on the University grounds
at which good table board can be fur
nished at cost. The rate ranges from
81 80 to 81 Is per week. In private
families board with room can be OBJ
tanned at from So 30 TO 81 30 per week.
Those attending as students will be car
ried for half-fare on the railroads. The
circular sent out by Prof. Cooke gives
synopsis of the course. In looking
il over we find that most matters of in
terest to farmers viii be treated. Under
the head Of Dairying there viii be thir-
ty-three lectures, in which the princi-
pies Of the handling Of milk and its
manufacture into butter and cheese
win be taught. At the Experiment
Station is new dairy house and stu
dents will have an opportunity to go
through the whole process of butter
making from the milk until the butter
is ready for market. Stock Feeding
will be treated in thirty-three lectures.
There are important problems connect
ed with the economical feeding of farm
stock and these viii be taught and il
lustrated by the use of the laboratory.
The Structure and diseases of domestic
animals viii be taught in thirty-three
recitations relating to diseases and in
twenty-five relating to bodily structure
Of domestic animals. There are with
in easy reaching distance OF the school
some fine herds of cattle, and students
will have an opportunity to visit these
herds with their instructors and study
different kinds, together with diseases
and remedies. Fertilization and Guilt
walton of Farm Crops will be treated.
This includes the handling and apply
ing of manures, composts and absorb
ents, action of lime on crops, green ma
nuring, value of clover in rotation,
cultivation of barley, oats, hay-felds
and pastures. 1t will thus be seen that
the course marked out is an attractive
and popular one. Although these top
les may have been treated hundreds of
times in lectures and newspapers, there
are hundreds of young men to whom
they would be new or act as stimulus
to greater care and industry should they |
listen to them again, delivered in a pop
nlar manner and with the aid of the
best appliances for illustrating science
in our modern lecture rooms.
We wish to commend this winter
course of lectures to our young farm
,rs and to those young men who pro-
pose to become farmers. There are
iome. no doubt, who would like TO a.
,ail themselves of this opportunity and
,annot. there are others who can and
will not. There are still Others who
ire Indifferent about the matter. They
ave not got rid of the old contempt for
,ook farming. While we believe that
a1mers of any age or the most extend
d experience might derive profit from
hese lectures, the young men viii have
he largest opportunity to put to prac-
cal use the lessons learned. The ben
fits to be derived are both direct and
ldirect. The indirect benefits come
ON association, a widening of ones 3
ORION of knowledge, and though but }
tile attention be paid to instruction re-
lived after ones return to the farm,
D impression has been made that can
Of be shaken off. 1t would be almost v
seless to attempt to name all the direct b
,nefits. We call attention TO only
w. These lectures will set young Z
rmers to thinking about their busi- !
,ss. 1t is to be expected as a rule
at the awakening Of thought viii a. p
AIKEN interest and interest viii lead to y
ider study, a more exact knowledge, ,
ID a deeper love for their work. The ',
ason we have so many poor farmers Of
because men dislike farming, and n