Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-01-03
Farmers and Housekeepers' Course.


year some 900 young men and
women from Wisconsin farms, in
the latest developments in practical
and scientific agriculture, Dean w.
A. Henry of the Univereity of Wis
consln college of agriculture has
completed plans for another ten
days farmers and housekeepers'
course IN February in order to ex-
tend the work of the college if pos
sible to every busy farmer and
farmers wife or daughter in the
whole state.
Tie course will open February 6
and continue to February Is, most
OF The lectures and demonstrations
beng given in the main building Of
the agricultural college and in room
80 OF south hall, which is head
quarters of the home economics de-
partn1ent of the university. Most
Of the time will be devoted in in
strucIon and discussion of ques-
lions pertaining to horse raising
and land drainage in the farmers
course, and to questions of house
hold economy and sanitation in the
housekeepers' course.
The program for the farmers
course includes an attractive and
instructive series of evening lectures
by President G. r. Van Hise and
other members of the university
faculty on the structure of the
soil, forces of nature, the planning
AID planting or home grounds,
creamery dividends and draft
horses. The regular daily con-
ferenceS will include discussion and
demonstration of soil fertility,
manures, drainage, feeding of farm
animals, tuberculosis in cattle, the
proper care of milk, tests Of dairy
cows, inspection of feeding stuffs,
alfalfa growing, corn judging, the
breeding, judging and handling of
cattle, sheep and swine with study
of the carcasses, and special de-
monstrations on the breeds, types,
points and soundness of horses,
with Judging and examination Of
horses by DR.. A. S. Alexander.
There will be a special conference
of farmers and breeders on matters
pertaining to the horse breeding
i;-austry of the state, and pro-
fiGable course in dairy methods and
Ex-Governor w. d. Hoard Will
give the address at the opening of
the hOuselIeepers conference. Other
speakers of special interest, beside
the faculty of the home economies
of the university, in
clude Mrs. Gertrude Sober Church,
ormerly of the household science
of the University Of
Illinois and a speaker at last years
conference in Madison; w. d. Frost
of the department of bacteriology
of the University of wisconsin,
state chemist Richard Fischer; Mrs.
J. S. Donald of Mt. Horeb; George
M. Wagner of the university de-
partment Of zoology; Dr.. Mary B.
White, Madison Emil P. Sandsten,
horticultural department of the
university; Miss Katherine Mac
Donald of the Wisconsin Free
Library commission, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Clarke Hardy, associate editor
of The Farmers Voice.
The programme has been SO
planned that farmers can leave
their homes Monday, February 5,
and return Saturday, February II,
having spent ten entire days at the
university without being absent
from home more than one Sunday.
There are thousands of farmers
who can leave their homes for but
a short time, and the course is ar
ranged especially for such as desire
to learn more concerning their
vocation. The attendance at the
last conference was twice that of
the conference of the previous year,
and the attractive programme, to-
gether with the increased interest
in the university awakened through
out the rural districts of the state
by the growth of the agricultural
college, gives warrant for anticipa-
ton of an attendance of at least
300 farmers and their wives or
Good board and com
Portable rooms close to the agri-
cultural college are easily obtained.
and the railroads have offered
reduced rates for the occasion.