Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-27
AMEs ExTENsloN DEPARTMENT
70 CONDUCT abort couRsEs
IN EIGHTY COUNTIES.
PLAN STATEWIDE SERVICE
DURING WINTER MONTHS
Large and "small' Courses 70 BE A..
ranged For-coursss for Many coun.
ties Heretofore Neglected One. Halt
Of Number Now Arranged othsrs to
30 Booked at State Fair.

Special to Times Republican
Ames. July 27.--Iowa State College
expects to take its work to the people
Of Iowa in a larger way than evei
during the coming season. The extern
sion department is planning to conduct
more than eighty different shor,
courses. ranging in length from two
days to week. dealing with agricul-
ture and domestic science ana reaching
more than half Of the counties Of the
state.
About one-half Of these courses have
already been arranged for. AS far al
possible the others will be booked by
the time Of the meeting Of the short
course managers and officers Of Iowa
at the college building on the state
fair grounds in Des Mofnes, Tuesday
afternoon, Aug. ~. At this meeting.
Director w. j. Kennedy, Of the extern
sion department. will give general in
structions as to the short course for
the coming year.
Large" and small" Courses.
The extension department expects
to conduct about twenty to twenty
i've large short courses" and ten to
fifteen small short courses" each con-
tinuing q week and giving instruction
In both agriculture and domestic SCI
ence: also about fifteen two-day short
courses In livestock and farm crops,
and about thirty domestic science
schools lasting week. The large and
small short courses differ in the equip
ment furnished by the college and the
number OF instructors furnished, and
also in the cost to the local associa
ton. For the two-day courses, no
guarantee is asked The special domes-
tic science schools are conducted chief
ly for the benefit Of the women and
girls Of towns and cities.
Enter New Districts This Year.
Director Kennedy has adopted this
general policy with reference to short
courses this season: AS far az possible
he is giving short courses to commun-
tiles which held a short course last
year, for the work IL planned as a
two year work; then preference will
be given to counties that have not had
short courses at all. Counties which
have had three or more short courses
will get consideration as applicants Of
the other classes are disposed Of
Since 1895. when the first short course
was held at Red Oak. the extension de-
partment had held a total of 104 Of the
week-long schools OF agriculture. They
have been held in forty-eisht counties.
Some counties have had as high as six
different courses. some five and so on.
I'VE are anxious now to get into the
fifty or more counties in which no
short course work has been DONE" said
Mr.. Kennedy. These include the fol-
lowing: Adair, Adams, Appanoose,
Audubon. Benton. Boone. Bremen, Blu
chanan. Butler. Calhoun. Cass, Cedar,
Clarke. Clayton. Clinton.
Davis, Decatur. Des tMoines, Dickinson,
Dubuque, Fayette. Franklin, Greene,
Hancock, Howard. johnson,
Jones. Keokuk. Lucas, Lyon. Madison,
Monona, Monroe. osceola. Pocahontas,
Polk, Ringgold. Sioux. Tama, Union,
Van Buren,, Wapello. Wayne, Webster.
some Of them are already provided
for in the coming year. AS many as
possible Of the others as ask for. short
courses and put up the customary
will be taken care Of"