Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-11-15

ment of milk, feeding Of silage.
Farm Mechanics-Constructio of
probable hog houses and other simple
buildings. Road buildings and mainten-
ance of good road.
Second Year Course
Animal Husbandry-The body Of
domestic animals with special attention
given to the dairy cow types, judging
and selecting Of dairy cattle. Manage
ment, stabling and improvement Of
dairy herd. Testing for butter fat
production. Keeping dairy records.
Feeding the balanced ration. Princi.
Piles Of handling milk, including milk
ing, milk and it's composition, separat-
ing, churning and testing.
AS hogs are necessary to 60 with the
dairy, special attention will be given
them. Breeds, types, feeding rasions
for young pigs and fat hogs, diseases
and management will be studied.
Sheep-Proper buildings, feeding,
trimming, diseases and treatment. =
Poultry houses, feeding and
| care.
The work given the second year will
be more advanced and specialized.
Cereal and Forage Crops oats
wheat, barley and rye will be studied
in detail. Their adaptation to soil and
climate, preparing Of seed bed; methods
Of seeding, scoring and judging grains.
Soiling and silage crops will also he
studied. Weeds.
Farm Engineering buildings,
farm conveniences, drainage.
Horticulture-Laying out orchards.
Trimming, pumping and grating.
| Wood Work
The manual training shop at the Lit
tie Falls high school has been enlarged
so that now it includes a good sized,
fully equipped bench shop, finishing
and mechanical drawing room and a
machine room.
The machine shop now contains two
large turning 1athes, power grind
stone, a circular saw and jointer,
driven by electric motors.
The course is tw0-year one so the
class will be divided into two sections.
The first year men will be taught the
proper care and use of tools, elemen-
tary wood work, the different joints
and their uses, carpentry or cabinet
work and the correct way to stain and
finish pieces. The second year men
will be instructed in lathe turning and
advanced cabinet work or carpentry.
They will be allowed to select whatever
articles they wish to make as far as
their ability will permit.
The reading of working drawings
and the elements Of mechanical draw
ings will be given all the students TAX
ing the shop course.
A selection from the following list
will be allowed and each student will
be permitted to do as much work as
he can do and do correctly:
Milk stool, nail box, saw horse, saw
buck, bread board, broom holder, sleeve
board, eveners, wagon pole, step ladder
hatchet handle, hammer handle, iron.
! ing board, fork rack, clothes chest, neck
yoke, work bench, wheel barrow wagon
box, tool chest, kitchen table, Kitchen
cupboard.
In cabinet work selection can be
made from the following:
! Foot stool, jardinere stand, book
rack, magazine rack, pedestal, desk,
piano bench, rocking chair, mission
chair, morris chair, library table.
| Domestic Science
! Cooking. ~
l. Food classification.
! 2. Composition of most important
foods as cereals, vegetables, eggs,
milk, meat.
3. Uses of foods to the body.
| 4. Cooking of starch; cream Of
wheat, rice, potatoes.
!, $. Cooking Of albumen; soft and
hard cooked eggs, omelet, baked Gus
tard. -
! 6. Study Of agents, batters and
doughs; griddle cakes, corn cake, gra-
ham gems, ginger bread, baking pow
!, der biscuits, sugar cookies, steamed
brown bread, doughnuts, puddings,
/, cakes. ~ .%zsa
J T.. Study of yeast; white bread.
] 8. Principles of meat cooking.
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