Oxford Democrat., 1912-06-11
Summer Extension Work.
FREE LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS
BY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE.

dress all communications TO college, OF
Agriculture, Orono, Me.
The lectures are as follows:
Live Stock:
Care and Management of Dairy
Cattle
2-Local Breeders Associations-How
to Organize
3-Rearing of Draft Horses on Maine
Farms
4-Sheep Raising for New England
5-Swine Rearing and Feeding
Dairy Products:
6-Care of Dairy Products and it's
Relation to Their Value
Home Butter Making
S-Relstion of Cow Test Associations
to Dairy Profits
Fruit:
9-Fruit Growing in Maine
lO-Fruit Handling and Storage
ll-Insect Pests and Fungus Diseases
l2-Orchard Renovation
13-The Young Orchard
Poultry:
l4-Causes of Failure in the Poultry
Business
l5-Care aud Management of Turkeys
l6-Egg Production
r-Insects and Diseases Affecting
Poultry-How to Eradicate Lice,
Mites and Other Pests
lS-Poultry Breeding
19-Poultry Feeding
20-Poultry Housing
2l-Poultry Producers Associations
Value and How to Organize
Farm Crops:
22-Corn Growing in Maine
2S-Farm Crop Improvement
24-Forage Crops
25-Small Grains
26-Soil Fertility and How to Maintain
Ii
27-The Hay Crop
2S-The Potato Crop and Its Improve
ment
Farm Management:
29-Concrete Construction
S0-Drainage
3l-Farming for Profit
32-Records and Accounts
S3-Surveying and Scoring Farms
34-Systems of Rotations
S5-Early Fall work
General:
36-Agriculture in the School
37-Boys' and Girls Agricultural
Clubs
3S-Cooperation in Farm Business
39-Cooperative Marketing of Farm
Products
4O-Economic Distribution Of Food
Products
4l-The Demonstration Farm and
What Ii Means to the Farmer
42-Whars Needed for the Develop
ment of Maine Alphabetically
Demonstrations are as follows:
LIVE STOCK
|. Demonstration of Scoring Farm
Animals.
With an increased demand for more
and better farm animals there comes
desire TO know them better and to be
able TO study them individually and col
lectiyely. This would enable one to Sc
lect and mate more carefully. ibis dem-
onstration will take the scoring aud ex-
planation of the use OF the score caro-.
Also those present can do scoring If they
desire. Breeding problems will also De
discussed. This demonstration should
be given at q farm or in locality where
several animals can be provided to WORK
on.
2. Demonstration Of Stock Feeding.
More and better live stock, also high
priced feed stuffs bring problems TO the
dairyman and stockman. This demon.
strstion will take up discussion OF
feed stuffs and some of the feeding prob
lens. The relation between the cost OF
feeding and the production will be COM
pared and discussed.
9. Demonstration of Milk Testing.
This demonstration Is Intended to
teach the use and manipulation OF the
Babcock test as means OF knowing
what amount of butter fat the individual
cows in a herd are producing and the
relative profits returned by each COW:
There should be milk and cream on band
TO conduct the test, also means OF sup
plyiug hot water. This Semonstration
is not intended as a means whereby a
few individual herds can be tested, or 10
test cream that is sold at creameries,
bat is to show those present now 20 90
the testing themselves.
POULTRY
4 Demonstration in Fattenipg, Kill
ing, Preparing and Packing OF Poultry
for Market.
(. Demonstration in the Selecting,
Gambling and packing Eggs for Market
and for Hatching Purposes.
q A Demonstration in the Mixing OF
Feeds.
7. A Demonstration. in the Scoring
and Judging of Fowls.
g Demonstration in Orchard Spray
ing.
Q. Demonstration in Orchard Reno
vation.
10. Demoustratioa of Apple Packing.
FARM CROPS
n Demonstration in Potato: Grow
ing, and Judging. ca
II. Demonstration in Corn: SEED
Selection and Judging.
1S. Small Grain Growing and lm-
provement.
IA. MEADOW auu @SsoA9
ment.
SOILS AND FERTILIZERS
Is. Soil Observation-Disclosures o'
Crops-Green Manuring.
t6. Demonstration In Home Mi1i"s
of Fertilizers.
FARM MANAGEMENT
n Demonstration In surveying AND
Scoring Farms. , .J
Is. Demonstration in Records and
no. Demonstration in Drainage.
30. Demonstration In Concrete Con
struction.
SUMNER COURSE:
The Summer Course in Agricuituro
Social and Rural Economics will opel
N oudsy evening, July Sth, and continue
for two weeks. Tuition Is free ana .n'
onlv expenses attached to the course
are railroad fare, board, and room
Special announcement OF this course vii
| be scot on application.
/ For information concerning any Oh sn'
regular courses apply TO
Leon 8. Merrill, Dean
College of Agriculture,
i University OF Maine,
Orono, Maine.