Semi-weekly herald., 1908-11-26
FARMERS
COURSE
Experts to
Visit Durango in
February

1he Colorado Agricultural college
| Fort Collins, plans to hold twenty,
| four farmers short courses during the
winter of 19os'O9 in as many different
places in the state.
The college will send from ten to
fourteen lecturers to each short
| course. and the subjects discussed will
| be those Of greatest interest to the
| farmers of the locality where the short
course is held.
Each course will continue from Mon.
day morning until Saturday afternoon
with morning sessions from . o'clock
| until noon. afternoon sessions from
1870 to 4:30, and evening SESSIONS be
| ginning at 1880.
Program.
Practical instruction win be given IN
| crop growing; the selection, breeding.
| feeding. and management of live
stock; dairyng; irrigation, drainage
| and dry-land farming; farm methods
| of seed breeding; orchard and small!
fruit growing and gardening: plrnt
| diseases; prevention of insect depre.
| dations: diseases of and accidents 10
farm animals; poultry and SQUAD rails.
ing; Bookkeeping. Special attention
will be given to potato growing
All these subjects can not be treated
| during one short course The commit
tee at each place is asked to indicate
what tops they want most fully dis
cussed
Four popular evening LECTURES of in
terest to the community WIN be given.
One OF these will be accompanied by
$50 stereopticon views.
Cost.
To secure a farmers short course
one hundred farmers have to sub
scribe, each agreeing to attend and
to pay fee OF two dollars. Also,
suitable hall, with heat and light and
blackboard, must be furnished free
The college pays the expenses of
its instructors and furnishes free the
programs and the badges Which admit
subscribers to the course.
The local committee appoints a door
keeper and collects the fees, turning
over a check for 5000 to the conductor
of the short course 1t is customary
to charge so cents a day for those
who do not take the full course.
In some places where man sub
scribes for the course the members
of his family are admitted free.
Before the close of the short course
the conductor should be furnished with
the name and postoffice address of
each member.
All money above 5000 belongs to the
local organization. Each committee
Is urged to secure at least $50 to 200
subscribers. This will provide sur
plus fund for the local committee with
which to pay for the hall. music and
incidentals, and will widen the in
fluence OF the course.
Wherever stock judging is given the
local committee should arrange to
have suitable animals on the grounds
at the hour called for in the program
Evening Lectures.
The evening lectures are Of general
interest to the whole community. and
the local committee usually engages
the largest hall In town and invites
the public to attend. Sometimes they
are made free and sometimes a small
fee is charged by the local commit
| tee.
High Schools.
At most places where farmers short
courses have been held the boys In
| the high school and the eighth grade
have been assigned by the school
board to take the work, their teach
ers attending with them and giving
the pupils examinations at the close
of the course, the grades being re
corded with the other grades OF the
pupils. No tuition is charged school
boys attending these courses.
| One short course last winter added
at least 100000 to the income of the
farmers this year In the locality where
| the course was held.
All farmers and business men who
can should attend.
Make the week one In which every
one in the community. without ex
ception, is studying, thinking, and talk
ing about the subjects discussed.
The above is from a circular sent
out by the agricultural college received
by the Durango committee which has
arranged for one Of these farmers
courses commencing the Sth day Of
February. The COMMITTEES looking after