The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-01-25
ANNUAL SHORT COURSE
Will Open Monday and Continue
for Six Days.

| completed Tor the best course ever
held in Mahaska county. Fine corps
of instructors from ,Ames will have
charge OF the work The work this
year will be something new and some
thing different from that given the
past two years. r., .,.@ ...'
When is it given? .rf ..
All next week.
How is it given?
| BY the cooperation of the Ames
people with 500 Mahaska county peo-
pie. ..- ..s
i Why is it given? ...
| So that the people of Mahaska
county, in both town and country,
may increase their yearly earnings
and profits that they may have bet
ter roads, better schools, better
churches and better homes, that they
may become better acquainted and
thus nelp each other do the common
things of today betlvt than they were
done yesterday.
Prof. Van M. Storm, of Ames, has
ltbeen in the city the past few days
making the final arrangements for
what he expects to be one of the
best courses held in the state this
year.. This morning Prof. Storm said,
II am we'll pleased with the situation
here in Oskaloosa. The different com.
mittees are all handing in excellent
reports and see no reason why the
short course this year won't be 4 re
cord breaker"
Prof. Storm said further, During
the last six years we have held 1OS
very successful short courses and
when we started holding these short
courses in the different parts of the
state they were attended almost al
together by farmers, but more and
more each year the business men OF
the towns and cities have come to
realize how important a factor agri'
culture is to their own needs and
welfare, so that today we find in our
classes not only the farmers, but
bankers, lawyers, merchants, manu-
~
people who depend upon Iowa and
her resources for a living"
As an example of how short
course should be attended Prof.
Storm told of a Domestic Science
class which Miss Knowles had few
weeks ago in one of our neighboring
towns. mis- class which Miss Know
les will not forget very soon was at
tended by town ladies and country
ladies', old ladies and young ladies'
rich ladies and poor ladies, and school
teachers and school girls. With an
attendance of this kind every class or
! type of women is represented and ii
shows that they are all working to-
gether with a common end in view.
This year Prof. R. K. Bliss, assisted
by R. A. Cave and S. B. Martin, will
conduct the stock judging classes
In this department, on Monday, there
is to be an entirely new feature,
which is a class of blemished or I'M
sound horses. Horses having such
blemishes as ring bone, side bone,
bone and bog spavins, stringhalt, par
rot mouths, blindness, bad wind and
heaves, will be in the stock-judging
ring for your Inspection and Prof.
Bliss will point out each blemish, tell
what causes it; how it lanes the
horse; how it may be detected, and
will tell of cures, if such blemish
can be cured. At other places this
class has proved to be one OF the
very best parts of the short course
and is always well attended. This
one class is well worth the price of a
season ticket Prof. NJ. l.. Mosher,
assisted by J. 3. Woods and r. E.
Gregg, will have charge of the corn
and grain work. He will specialize
this year on oats, grass seeds and the
rotation of crops.
Miss Knowles will again teach the
Domestic Science classes at the M.
L. church. Miss Knowles is recog-
nized as national authority on all
subjects pertaining to Domestic
Science and it is great opportunity
for the people of Oskaloosa to be
able to meet and to be instructed by
one who is at the very head of her
profession.
Mr.. Joe Naylor will conduct the
boys classes, which are to be held
from 4 to o'clock each afternoon.
These classes are for boys who can.
not attend during the day, but who
want to get some of this practical
work. The class is generally made
up of boys from the eighth grades,
high schools and colleges.
The exhibit car will be unusually
good this year. 1t will show the re.
suits of experimentation in rotating
crops, exhibits, depicting the effect
of tuberculosis on stock, the stom
ach worm, liver fiukes, cholera germs
etc. There will also be displays OF
corn bi-products, cereal millings and
dairy test associations.