Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1893-10-27
WINTER COURSE OF STUDY.
A Special Winter Term at the State Agri-
cultural College.

| COllege nave decided 10 offer short
winter course, beginning Nov. q, '93,
and continuing until Feb. Is, 1894, for
the benefit of any young farmers or
Others, who cannot attend during the
regular sessions Of the college.
The course of instruction, and the
daily programme will be as follows:
8 to 10 A. NJ, daily, Arithmetic and
Book eeping.
10 to IL A. NJ, Monday, Wednesday.
and Friday, English Composition.
10 to II A. NJ, Tuesday and Thurs
day, Plant Diseases and Injurious
| Insects.
II to II A. NJ, Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday, instruction in Gardening
and greenhouse work.
III to II a. NJ, Tuesday and Thurs
day, lectures on Stock-Breeding.
! to g p. NJ, Monday, Wednesday.
and Friday, lectures on General Agri-
culture.
lto5P. NJ, Tuesday and Thursday,
instruction in Dairying, theoretical
and practical.
to p. NJ, Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday, Veterinary Medicine and
Surgery.
TO II A. NJ. on Saturdays. the care
repair and use of farm machinery.
EXPLANATION OF THE COURSE.
The instruction in Arithmetic and
Book Keeping will aim TO give skill
in ordinary business calculations. and
in the keeping of accounts.
The instruction in English COmpO-
sition will be directed towards facility
| in writing correctly ordinary and busi-
ness letters.
The subject OF Plant Diseases will
be treated in such way as will enable
the student to recognize them, and to
apply the proper remedy.
The common insects Injurious to
fruits, vegetables or forests will be
studied with reference to their form,
color, and general appearance, their
habits and modes of carrying on their
harmful work, and the best means of
destroying them, or of protecting
growing plants from their ravageS.
The instruction in Gardening will
cover methods of propagating and cul-
tivating the standard garden vege-
tables, plans for home gardens, and
illustrative exercises in the green
house in methods in budding, graft
ing, seed sowing, and the care of USE
The instruction i'm Stock Breeding
will be discussion of the principles
and methods involved In breeding for
special points" or qualities, in
domestic animals,-or the means by
which different breeds of animals
have been produced, and by which
they are preserved and improved.
The instruction i'm General Agricul-
ture will cover the principles of stock
feeding, the properly balanced ration
for fattening, for growth, for work,
and for milk. giving the results of eX-
periments in this country and abroad
The different breeds of domesticat-
ed animals will be studied with re-
ference to their fitness for different
uses, while the adaptability of differ
ent crops to soil and climate, the rota-
tion of crops, methods and times of
seeding, and of cultivation, will be
carefully considered,- with refer
ence to carrying on the business of
farming, in general, in profitable
manner.
The instruction in Dairying will
cover practical lessons in selecting
care of dairy utensils, and of all the
appurtenances of well appointed
dairy.
How to make good butter and
cheese, on the farm, in the factory and
certain and most economical way, will
be the end aimed at in the instruction.
A dairy building we'll equipped with
the most approved modern machin-
cry and apparatus, and furnished
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dairy cows, will be made use of as the
means Of illustrative instruction. The
methods of testing specimens of milk
for the purpose of determining their
value for butter or cheese, and the
method Of ripening cream so as to
make butter OF uniform quality the
year round, will be taught and illus
trated in the most careful way.
1t is hoped and expected that the
dairy school will be influential in
promoting and encouraging the dairy
industry of the state, and thus giving
to the people of the state another
most profitable employment.
The instruction in VeterinOry Med
icine and Surgery will include study
of the ordinary animal diseases, their
causes, symptoms and treatment, the
uses and abuses of medicines, the laws
of animal hygiene, the practice of SIM
pie surgical operations, and especially
the care and treatment OF young ami
mails and of animals in pregnancy and
at parturition.
A well equipped Veterinary Labora-
tory will be in constant use, and such
clinical practice as may be available
will be given.
Every Saturday such students as
desire it, will have an opportunity to
learn in the most practical way how