Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-12-14
WINTER SCHOOL
FOR FARMERS
Short Course at State College Will
Open on January 9th.


The program for the Short Winter
Course for Farmers, which opens at
the State College on Jan. 9th to con-
tinue ten weeks has been completed,
and shows the best list of lectures and
practice periods yet arranged, with a
number of special lecturers to assist
the regular college staff.
The Short Course is designed to
meet the needs of farmers, both young
and old, who may desire to spend a
short time at the College in the study
of various agricultural subjects. and
yet are unable to spare the time for a
longer course of study. This Winter
School comes at time of the year
when such men can most conveniently
leave home, and the course offered
gives the opportunity to become famil-
lar with the results of the latest in
vestigations in agriculture and to study
the application of scientific research,
to the work of the farm.
The time devoted to this course is
necessarily limited, but the studies
and practice work are planned to give
the largest opportunity and amount of
information and training.
1t is proposed that the forenoons for
five days in the week will be occupied
by lectures and recitations as in the
College Courses, and the afternoons
and Saturday forenoons will be devoted
to laboratory, or practice work. These
practice periods will occupy one and
one half hours each day. thus provid-
ing that two of these may be held each
afternoon. Under this organization
| the entire Course will consist of 200
lecture periods, and 12O practice per
iods.
While this course is planned to cover
two ten-week sessions, given in two
consecutive years, the subjects are so
arranged and scheduled that the stu
dent can really elect the subjects
grouped together under any one divis-
ion, and thus be able to take all the
lectures, for both the first and second
year. This is thus arranged in order
to accommodate many who are interested
in only one particular line, such as
fruit growing or dairying. A student
who thus wishes to specialize could
gain very comprehensive knowledge
of his speciality, in the short time of
one terms attendance.
The subjects taught in this school
will be grouped under the following
four general lines, and the time allotted
to each is shown in the outline which
follows: Soils and Field Crops; Fruit
Growing and Gardening; Live Stock
Management; Dairying.
There are also several special groups
which will occupy from one to two
weeks each as follows: Poultry and
Egg Production: Bee Culture and Hon
ey Production; Flori culture; Forestry
and Tree Planting Many studies
bearing a close relation to some of
these groups as we'll as others which
are more general will be arranged
throughout the course and form part
of it. In addition to these certain
courses intended to acquaint the student
with the use of the English language
and to extend his knowledge of mathe-
matics will be given which all stu
dents are expected to follow. The
second years work will differ from
the first in the more advanced nature
of the work undertaken. Older men and
those having had some practical ex-
perience in some special line of farm
ing may be able to combine the two
years work along this special line into
one term. but the average young man
would do we'll to follow the full course
of studies as outlined, returning the
second year to complete the more ad-
vanced work.
FIRST TERM-Ten Weeks
240 Lectures.