Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-01-11
Go FARMERS WILL
MEET At MADISON
FOURTH ANNUAL TEN DAYS
COURSE IN AGRICULTURE,
To Be Held Feb. Sis at State
University-Improvement of the
Dairy Herds. Drainage. Horse
Raising and Good Roads to Be
Considered.

Madison, Wis.,, Jan. 5.-Methods of
improving the 100, 600, dairy herds of
Wisconsin that furnish milk to 5000
cgeameries and cheese factories the
drainage of swamp lands, the making
o. good roads, horse raising, the care
OF orchards, will form the chief sub
jects of discussion at the forth annual
farmers course to be held at the col
lege of agriculture of the University
of Wisconsin Feb. 5-15. From pres
ent indications from 500 to 600 farmers
will avail themselves of the oppor-
tunity to get the latest information
in agriculture. Last year 40 were
registered a marked increase over the
proceeding year. The course is in
tended for farmers over twenty-five
years of age who are unable to avail
themselves of other instruction in
agricustuarl methods. No fees or
charges of any kind are made by the
university for this course,
The special feature of the farmers
course this winter will be the con-
sideration of methods of improving
the 100. 900 herds of dairy cows that
furnish milk to 5000 creameries and
cheese factories. Methods of improv-
ing the dairy breed by substituting
registered, pure bred bulls for the
scrub bulls now used will be consider
ed. Demonstrations of the milking
machines which have been installed
in the dairy barns will form an in
teresting part of the instruction IN
dairy methods. tuberculosis in dairy
herds, with post norton demonstra
tion of the presence Of the disease in
cows and the method of applying the
tuberculin test, will from another
important part of the work for those
interested in dairying.
Professor A. S. Alexander will con-
duct the work in the raising Of horses,
and will lecture on draft hroses, types
and breeds, methods of exam ming
for soundness, and similar topics.
The operation of the new stallion
registration law. and the possibility
o. developing Wisconsin as great
| horse raising state. will be discussel
Improved varieties of barley and oats
IL Wisconsin farms will form the sub
isct of instruction by Professor K. A.
lac8re, and will be illustrated by
Samples and stereopticon slides of in
pfoved grams. Professor E. P Sand
s,an will present the subject of the
laying out of orchards and small fruit
| gardens, and the selecting, planting
End care of fruit trees The need of
land drainage in Wisconsin, the profits
o. drainage as based on data gathered
from farmers, and the cost of drain
ing marsh land as compared with the
benefits, is another practical topic
| to be considered.
The aim of the ten days farmers
course is to give busy farmers the
maximum amount of the instruction
in the maximum amount of time.
The programme, which is now COM
pieUe, provides for lectures, demon
sirations an practical work from 8
O. clock each morning until 9 o'clock
ct night. All the resources of the col
lege of agriculture will be placed at
the disposal of the farmers and dairy
men of the state who take advantage
f the means of instruction thus pro-
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