Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-11-15
SCHOOL COURSE
WILL OPEN DEC. MATTER BE-
LOW CONTAINED IN PAMPHLET
BEING ISSUED

The short course at the high school
for young men and women who are un-
able to attend school during the entire
term will open Monday, December Q.
The aim of this course will be to give
those who attend practical education
that will make the work on the farm
more pleasing and profitable to them.
Students will be offered work in agri-
culture, wood work, cooking, sewing,
English, arithmetic, bookkeeping, civil
government and commercial law. =
| The work in agriculture will be un-
der the direction of Griffith Richards
of the agricultural department.. Miss
Abba Richard instructor in domestic
science, will have charge of the work
in sewing and cooking and Edward
! Scibness, director Of manual training,
; will instruct the boys in wood work.
Any person Is years of age or over
may attend this course. No require.
ments as to previous schooling will be
made. No student will be required to
pay tuition.
| Civil Government
In the work in civics, after brief
review Of the structure Of the Ameri.
can government, the time will be de.
oted to showing how the government
of the United States, local, state and
national, is growing and changing.
Special emphasis will be placed upon
the present day development of our
government in order tnat the pupil may
have greater interest in and better
understanding Of the large political
questions which are Of vital Importance
to every American citizen. Such topics
as direct primaries, initiative and ref
erendum and recall, railway regula::
tion, conservation, development Of tho
rural schools, state roads commission
government for cities, etc., will receive
special attention.
Commercial Law
The work in commercial law will be
of an elementary sort. It will be
closely related to the work in business
arithmetic and bookkeeping. Farm
ing is first Of all business. No man
can succeed as farmer unless he is
also a good business man, and every
good man is throughly familiar with
the fundamental laws of business. It
will be impossible to cover the whole
field of commercial law but special at
tention will be given to contracts and
negotiable paper. Instruction will be
given relative to the value of and in
drawing up drafts, checks, promissory
notes, etc. go ~
Arithmetic and Bookkeeping
The work in arithmetic will be re-
view and drill in the arithmetic of the
common school, emphasis being laid
largely in the work on bookkeeping OF
farm accounts. This will be made as
practical as possible, the aim being not
to make book-keepers out Of the stu
dents but to teach them enough of the
principles Of bookkeeping so that
they may keep regular and systematic
accounts just as any business mar
would do, however small his business
Agriculture
The work in agriculture will be con
fined to dairy farming and raising
Of potatoes will be emphasized. Tht
details of the work will depend almost
entirely upon the ability of the pupils
The facts of agriculture are spreai
through so many and such widely diff
, ferent fields, and are so numerous, thai
one cannot hope to grasp all Of them
An attempt will be made to teach .
, Few OF the fundamental laws that un
derlle the important practices of agri
, culture through work in the laborator,
! and discussions in the class room
( Ihese laws can only be treated in gen
, era!, but it must be kept in mind tha
each farmer must know his own LAM
and methods before he can secure salts
! factory results with the, greatest Ger
, tainty and also at the least cost Tin
aim Will be to teach the Fundamental
: principles that person must under
3 stand to become successful in the farm
), ing profession. No theories will b
! discussed unless the practical side i
, shown and the cost Of the variou
operations taken into consideration.
f The agricultural department of tn
, high school has obtained large sunpl,
of agricultural material, includin
g BOOKS and bulletins, from the Unite
= states department of agriculture an,
from many colleges. Samples of prize
winning grains have been secured from
9 the exhibitors at the fairs and will b
studied in detail.
Any farmer wishing to have h s mill
=. and cream tested for butter fat, or hi
: grain seeds tested for termination 0
weed seeds, may have this done bv tn
agricultural department. of the iittl
Falls high school free of charge.
. First Year Course
Soils-Work on soils Of this county
: elements in the soil, uses Of green ma
= nores, barnyard manure, effect on Of
OF grain farming and stock farming.
CroPs-Testing grain for weed seeds
termination, corn and grain judging
selection of seed.
Forage Crops-Alfalfa, clover, vetch
rape, cowpeas. How to eradicat
= weeds.
' Horticulture-Apples and plums
{ planting, grating, propagation, prun
ing methods; strawberry and bus]
E fruits, same outline as for apples an,
|. plums. &sS
Entomology Sprays and sprayin.
for the important local insects. Test