Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1893-10-26
STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
OF sOUfH DAKOTA.
A Special Winter Course.


the benefit of any young farmers or
others, who cannot attend during lthe
regular sessions of the college.
The course of instruction and the
daily programme will be as follows:
8 to l0a. M, daily, Arithmetic and
bookkeeping.
10 to II Il. ~, Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. English Composition.
10 to ii Il. m., Tuesday and Thursday,
Plant Diseases and Injurious Insects.
II to l2 a. m., Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. instruction in Gardening
and greenhouse work.
II to IL a. m.. Tuesday and Thursday,
lectures on Stock-Breeding.
1 to Up. m., Monday. Wednesday and
Friday. lectures on General Agricul-
ture.
to 2p. NJ, Tuesday and Thursday,
instruction in Dairying, theoretical and
practical.
2to p. m., Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. Veterinary Medicine and Sur
gerry.
8 to IL a. M, 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
tho knaDipor nf 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 a 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 grow
ing plants from their ravages.
The instruction in Gardening will
cover methods of propagating and cul-
tiyating the standard garden vege-
tables, plans for home gardens. and
illustrative exercises in the greenhouse
in methods in budding, grating, seed
sowing. and the care OF useful and
ornn,panf,I pIuntc
The instruction in Stock Breeding
will be a discussion of the principles
and methods involved in breeding for
special points, or qualities, in do
mestic animals,--or the means by
which different breeds of animals have
been produced, and by which they are
preserved and improved.
The instruction in 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 domesticated
animals will be studied with reference
70 their fitness for different uses, while
the adaptability of different crops to
soil and climate, the rotation Of crops,
methods and times of seeding, and of
cultivation, will be carefully con-
sidered,-all with reference to carrying
on the business of farming, in general.
YroAfo1,1a roonror
The instruction in Dairying will
cover practical lessons in selecting and
managing dairy stock, the use and care
of dairy utensils, and of all the ap-
purtenances of a well appointed dairy.
How to make good butter and cheese,
on the farm, in the factory and in the
creamery, in the best, most certain and
most economical way, will be the end
aimed at in the instruction. A dairy
building well equipped with the most
approved modern machinery and appa-
ratus, and furnished daily with milk
from twenty-five fine dairy cows, will
be made use of as the means of illus
trative instruction. The methods of
testing specimens of milk for the pur-
pose 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 Illustrated in the most
careful way.
1t is hoped and expected that the
dairy school will be influential in pro-
noting and encouraging the dairy in
dustry Of the state, and thus giving to
the people Of the state another most
profitable employment.
The instruction in Veterinary Medi-
cine and Surgery will include a 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
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 de-
sire it, will have an opportunity to
learn in the most practical way how
to set up, adjust, repair and care for all
kinds of farm machinery.
GENERAL INFORMATION.
Students entering this special winter
course may take the whole, or such
part or parts of itas they may prefer
and If they choose, they may give
special and entire attention to some
one or more of the subjects offered.
A nominal tuition fee of one dollar
will be collected as required by law.
Few books will be needed; but such
books and stationary as may be re-
qnired will be furnished at cost by the
college.
Board can be secured at from SO to
$3.50 per week.
All instruction will be given by ac-
cnmnJic n afl an,l cEiJIof3 fnanhnrs in tho