The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-09
FARMERS URGED TO
STUDY At PURDUE
Winter Course at University
Will Bring Added Re-
turns from Farms.

Wayne county farmers will be in
terested in the announcement of Pur-
due university that it's winter courses
in agriculture will open January 20
and continue to March IA. The courses
of study comprise work in general az
riculture, animal husbandry, dairy hus-
bandry, and home economics and agri-
culture. The tuition is free to resi-
dents of Indiana.
In the forword of the announcement,
the faculty says:
Farming offers excellent opportuni-
ties for young men and women who
wish to fit themselves for the complex
business of successfully operating and
managing a farm. No other industry
business or profession requires as
wide a range of knowledge as Agri-
culture. The unskilled, uniformed
farmer is bound to be crowded out by
more efficient farmers in the future
Increasing land values, decreasing soil
fertility, high cost of labor and produc-
ton, and the competition for markets
all make thorough training, skilled
management and salesmanship neces-
sary qualifications for the successful
farmer. The problem of making the
farm pay is not simple one. Soil fer
tility must be improved and main
tanned; improved live stock in greater
numbers must be kept on farms; crop
yields must be increased; insect pests
and plant and animal diseases must be
controlled. The country must be
made a better place in which to live by
means of better homes, better roads
and better educational and social ad-
vantages.
THE successful farmer must under
stand the principles of agriculture as
we'll as the best practice. He must be
able to understand and apply methods
of permanent soil improvement; selec-
ton, improvement, production, har-
vesting and marketing of all kinds of
crops; selection, improvement, man.
agement and sanitary care of live
stock and poultry; production of clean,
wholesome milk and butter; planting
and care of orchards, small fruits and
garden crops.
instruction.
"The Institutional corps consists of
men chosen from the best institutions
in the country for their knowledge and
ability to teach scientific agriculture
In thorough, practical way.
1.-THE instruction consists of lee
lures and laboratory exercises conduct
ed by men and women who know the
scientific as well as practical agricul-
tural and household problems. The
winter course students deal with the
practical everyday problems of the
farm in the classroom and laboratory,
study soils, the movement of water
and air in soils, judge grains, handle
and judge live stock, practice grating,
budding, and pruning, judge fruit and
vegetables, make up mixtures for
spraying, test seeds for purity and
termination, adjust and operate farm
machinery, separate and test milk,
make butter and ice cream, operate
knowledge Of these various materials
and operations.
-Four distinct plans of study are
offered, viz, General agriculture, ami
NAL husbandry, home economics and
agriculture. These courses of eight
weeks are purposely given during the
winter months at a time when young
men and women can be spared from
the farm. Students are advised to
take the course in general agriculture
the first year and return and take one
of the other courses, which are more
highly specialized the second year.