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STATE SCHOOL OF oRIcuLruRe
For Purpose Of Providing Practical
Education for Country Life

For Purpose Of Providing Practical
Education for Country Life
The course OF study adopted by
the Board Of Trustees for the State
School Of Agriculture, together with
the number OF hours per week in
each subject and a brief explanation
OF the work to be performed, is pre-
scented as follows
Course OF study-first year
FAN term-English, hours; farm
botany hours; farm arithmetic,
4 hours; stock feeding, 3 hours;
stock judging, hour; soils and soil
treatment, hours; shopwork. 2
hours; mechanical drawing, ! hour;
applied physics, hours
Winter term English, 3 hours;
farm botany, hours; farm arithmet-
ic, hours breeds and breeding, 3
hours stock judging, ! hour; soils
and soil treatment. hours; shop.
work, ? hours; mechanical drawing,
hour applied physics, hours
Spring term-English, 3 hours;
plant breeding and farm crops, 3
hours; farm arithmetic, hours;
breeds and breeding, hours; stock
Judging, l hour; shopwork, hours;
mechanical drawing, / hour; soils
and soil treatment, hours; applied
physics, 3 hours
Second year
Fall term-Englsh, hours: agri-
cultural chemistry, hours; dairying
3 hours landscape gardening and
| forestry, hours, farm insects. 2
hours; history and ciycs, hours;
farm accounts, / hour vegetable
gardening and fruit growing, hours,
shopwork, ? hours.
Winter term-English, 3 hours; ag-
ricultural chemistry, hours; dairy
ing, hours landscape gardening
and forestry, hours; farm manage
ment and farm economies. hours;
history and civics, hours. liant and
animal diseases, hours etabe
gardening and fruit grow (, hours;
farm accounts, / hour; s-opwork,
hours
Spring term-English, hours; az
ricultural chemistry, hours; dairy
ing, hours; farm bacteriology, >
hours; hygiene, hours; history and
civics. hours: vegetable gardening
and fruit growing, ? hours; farm ac-
counts, hour; farm mechanics, 2
hours.
Frequent practice in defamation
and debating will be required of all
students during both years of the
course
English
The work in English will supple
ment the work in the other depart |
ments During the first year the stu
dent will be taught to express him !
self clearly and accurately, both in !
spoken and written English, spelling,
punctuation, capitalization and let |
ter writing will be especially empha- |
sized
The work of the second year will |
be a continuation OF that done in the |
first. together with study of the |
more important American literature !
The principles of augmentation will |
be studied and much practice in de- |
batting and theme writing Will be |
required.
For those who have had advanced |
instruction, a higher source of essay |
work will be given, the themes for /
which essays will be taken from agri-
cultural subjects.
Farm Botany
The object of this course is TO
treat botany as the farmer should |
know it, that relationship of plants
to other forms OF life and TO each |
other, the life processes in the ger
mination OF seed, growth of seeding. |
and development of the plant. Spec !
ial attention will be given to the |
study of the botanical aspects OF farm !
crops and of typical forms of the low
er plants (bacteria fungi, etc.) with !
which the farmer needs acquant- |
ance.
Farm Arithmetic
The object of this course is TO
train the student so that he will be
able to solve the problems which
arise in the business of farming Ac-
tua farm problems, such as calcula-
ting fertility, computing rations, mea-
surfing and, learning forms used in
business transactions, etc, will con
stitute an important part OF the
work
Stock Feeding
Stock feeding will include a study
of the principles of animal nutrition,
a consideration of various feed STATS
and their adaptability to various farm
animals. The compromising of rat
ions for various purposes will be con
sidered and special emphasis will be
placed upon the relation of stock
feeding to soil fertility and to farm
economy
Stock Judging
This work will extend throughout
the first year and is intended to train
the student to know and observe
those points of conformation of the
animals which have a more or less
intimate relation with their useful
ness as profitable producers. Espec-
ial emphasis will be laid upon the
study of the dairy COW, both by score
card and by comparison.
Soils and Soil Treatment
In the study of soils and soil treat
ment, instruction will be given in or
igin of soils, and various methods by
which soils are formed; classification
and mechanical composition of soils,
the effect of texture of the soil upon
temperature, weight, movement of
the water aeratiOn feeding area of