Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-10-28
Short Courses In Agriculture.
INFORMATION REGARDING THOSE GIVEN
AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY.

SnOrt courses IN agriculture.
INFORMATION REGARDING THOSE GIVEN
AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Announcement is made of the short
winter courses in agriculture to be given
at the University of Maine during the
coming season. These courses are in
General Agriculture, Dairying, Horti.
culture, and Poultry Management.
These courses offer students an oppor.
tunity to pursue short but intensely
practical course of study 10 the princi.
Piles and practices of modern agriculture.
ARRANGEMENT OF COURSES.
For the convenience of those who may
desire to attend lectures upon wider
range OF subjects than afforded by a
single course, the courses have been so
grouped that general agriculture and
dairying will occur at the same time and
hese will be followed by the courses in
horticulture aud poultry management.
This arrangement will allow the stu
dent to attend some of the principal lee
lures given outside vi the course in
which he is registered.
This plan has been followed for sever
al years and the results have been SO
satisfactory that the same scheme viii be
continued the present year.
DATES FOR HOLDING CoURs Es
The courses in general agriculture
and dairying will open Monday evening,
January 5;b, at 80 O'clock in WiDslow
Hall and continue for four weeks.
The courses in horticulture aud pnui-
Try management will open Monday ,ven-
;ng, +, bruary 2ud, and continue for three
weeks.
REGISTRATION.
The registration of students will occur
January 5 aud February End at the
flee of the Dean of the College, Win
SLOW Hall, where students should report
immediately upon arrival.
CERTIFICATE.
Upon the completion of one OF the
Short Courses IN a satisfactory manner,
the student is given certificate stating
nc Course pursued.
SPECIAL LECTURES.
During the Short Courses one or more
special lectures will be given each week.
These lectures will deal with such i'm
portant subjects as agricultural econom-
lcs, agricultural education, road build
ing, farmers cooperative associations,
rural credit, boys and girls agricultural
bot
other forms of agricultural extension
service. Included in the list of speakers
for the special lectures will be success
full farmers, experts in various lines and
lecturers connected with the University
ADMISSION.
Any person fifteen years of age or
over will be admitted 10 the Short
Courses without examination. 1t Is
very desirable, however, that theCOllege
of Agriculture shall have as accurate in
formation as possible concerning the
number of students who will attend the
courses in order tha, satisfactory accom-.
modations may be provided.
EXPENSES.
No tuition or fees of any kind are
charged. Board and room can be Sc
cured for 81 so to S5 90 week. Stu
dents are not required TO purchase text
books. In the course in \dairying each
student will be expected to provide him
self with two white suits. These suits
will cost about one dollar each and can
be obtained here in Orono if the student
desires.
A list of boarding places will be sup
piled students on their arrival, or accom-
modations will be engaged in advance
for those who make application.
DIRECTIONS FOR REACHING oRoNo
Orono may be reached by the Maine
Central and Bangor & Aroostook rail-
roads. The Bangor Railway and Elec-
trio Company run cars directly through
the campus which may be taken at Ban
gor, Orono, or Oldtown. At Bangor the
electric cars pass the railroad station at
five and thirty-five minutes past the
hour; at Oldtown they pass the station
at twenty aud fifty minutes past the
hour.
COURSES.
The courses in dairying and general
agriculture are designed to give butter
makers, milk dealers, milk producers,
and general farmers as thorough training
as possible in the four weeks. The
work is exceedingly practical and is of
such nature that those who take the
courses can put the principles learned
into practice Immediately on returning
TO their business.
The object of the short course in fruit
growing is to present through lectures,
demonstrations, aud laboratory exer-
cises the most approved modern orchard,
small fruit, gardening and Horticulture
practices and methods.
The course in poultry management
aims to give special attention to the vari-
Gus breeds and varieties of poultry,
housing, incubating, brooding, feeding
of chicks and adult birds, killing aud
packing of poultry for market, and
other phases of the poultry industry
that will be of value to the practical
poultryman.
EQUIPMENT.
The equipment of the various depart
ments will all be available for short
course work.
The dairy building is equipped with
The necessary machinery, apparatus, and
appliances for undertaking the practical
demonstrations. Here the student tests
and separates milk, prepares starters,
ripens cream, churns, prepares the but
ter for market the same as in CONNER
cial plant, under the direction of compe
tent Instructors. The dairy herd is com
prised of the four leading breeds and
numbers about sixty head. The aver
age milk production of the herd 10 very
high. The feeding and production re-
cords are available for Instruction.
work in the short courses. The othel
live stock upon the farm consisting o.
horses, sheep, and swine offer splendic
Opportunities for the student to familiar
ice himself with the d fferent breeds ant
types.
chinery buildings are well equipped fo
the use Of short course students.
The horticultural laboratories and th'
greenhouses furnish teIcellent Opportu
nifty for demonstration work accompany
ing the various lectures in the course II
horticulture. All the facilities OF tn
department are placed at the disposal o
the short course students In such man
ner as to make the course Of creates
material value.
In the poultry course the incubato
buildings, the brooder house, the fatten
ing house, together with the stock con
sistiug of three hundred laying hens rep
resenting four breeds are available TO