The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-12-13
Corn and Poultry to Receive
Special Attention for
Two Weeks
LARGE ATTENDANCE
IS LOOKED FOR
Services of Experts SeCured--NeW
Man at the College

One OF the most radical departures
taken by the Agricultural College has
been the installation of corn school.
This work will begin January 2nd and
will continue two weeks. At this time
the farmers of South Dakota will be
able to leave home with less incon-
venience than at any other time dur
ing the year, and the college authori-
ties have every reason to believe that
there will be an unusually large at
tendance.
1t was the desire of those in con-
troll to secure the services of Prof. 2.
G. Holden, of Iowa, to direct the in
auguration of this work. Prof. Hol-
den is very we'll known throughout the
country and, without doubt, is the
leading corn expert in the United
States. He was unable to leave Iowa
at the time appointed, but has given
us much advice and will send one of
his best assistants, Prof. M. l.. Wilson,
to take charge of the work. Samples
of corn will be secured from various
sections of the state. All prospective
students are requested to bring with
them ten or twelve samples from their
own farm.
POULTRY SCHOOL.
nur;pp fboSo turo uaal,o n sor;os of
lectures on poultry will be given by
Mr.. Arthur A.. Brigham, now a resi-
dent of Maryland, but for many years
a resident OF Rhode Island and Massa-
chusetts. While Mr.. Brigham was
director Of the Rhode Island Expert
ment Station, be started the first
American Poultry School and took up
poultry Investigations.
Mr.. Brigham is graduate of the
Massachusetts Agricultural College
and also of the University of Goettin-
gen, Germany. For five years he held
the Professorship of Agriculture in the
Imperial Agricultural College at Sap
poro, Japan. For some years he has
been engaged in practical agriculture
in Massachusetts and Maryland. He
is unusually we'll prepared to give
practical instruction in poultry rails
ing. No man or woman, living on
a South Dakota farm can afford to
miss this instruction.
Last winter Mr.. Brigham delivered
this course of lectures at the Nebraska
School of Agriculture. These lectures
met with such great favor that he has
been invited to give a second course
this winter. The subjects of his lect-
ures are as follows.
CONDENSED COURSE IN POULTRY CULTURE.
Short Synopsis.
l. Basis and Beginning of Poultry Culture. |
Investment of Capital. Advantages and
Disadvantages of the Occupation. Pur-
pose and Preparation sf Poultry.
III. Housing and Fencing.
Location of Poultry Plant; Situation of
Buildings; Planning. Estimating, Con-
structing and Furnishing of Hen Houses.
Situation and Arrangement of Yards. |
Fences Shade, Control and Care.
III. Principles and Practice Of Poultry Breed |
ing. Breeding Factors in Poultry Pro-
pagation. Practice of Selection; Methods
of Mating; Line Breeding; Cross Breeding |
". Incubation.
Development of Embryo in the Egg
Hatching by Sitting Hens. Hatching by |
Machines Operation of Incubators.
Temperature. Ventilation, Moisture in
the Egg Chamber.
V. Brooding.
The Mother Hens and Their Broods.
Operation of Breeders and Brooder-
Houses Rearing. Care of growing
Chicks after Brooding Period. Seperat-
ing according to Sexes. Colonizing on
Free Range.
VI Feed-stuffs; Rations; Feeding.
Suitable foods for Fowls; Balancing
Rations; Methods of Feeding.
VII. Marketing.
Preparing for Selling. Fattening and
Finishing fowls. Killing, Picking, Ship.
ping; Methods of Selling.
VIII. Parasites and Diseases.
Prevention of External and Internal
Parasitic Insects and Organisms. Desire
tion of Disease Germs. Prevention of
Sickness by Sanitation. Symptoms and
Treatment of Diseases Of Poultry.
TX. Accounts, Records, Advertising.
< Methods of Management Of Fowls.
Systems of Poultry Management Simpli-
fed; Labor Factor. Care of Laying
Flocks. Colony Plan. Economies in the
Business.
REDUCED RAILWAY RATES II
Arrangements have been made with
he Western Passenger Association for {
! fare and one-third on the GER