Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-06-23
A. AND N. ANNUAL
SHORT COURSE
Changed From January to July 21-26
indications Good for Record At
tendance at Coming Session.

College Station, June 23.-Formal
of the fourth annual
farmers short course at the A. and
NJ. College, July 21.2G, inclusive, has
been made by e. j. Kyle, dean of the
school of agriculture, and who is in
charge of the farmers short course.
A neat folder containing review of
the work which will be offered and
to prospective students
has been issued by Mr.. Kyle and sent
to those interested. Followed as it is
by the Farmers Congress, July 2S,
20, 30, and the Farmers Institutes,
July 30-Aug. 1st, the short course will
have a record enrolment, according
to Mr.. Kyle. Arrangements will be
made with the railroads whereby stu
dents may obtain tickets good for all
of these conventions at a very low
rate. Announcement along that line
will be made later,
Students attending the short course
may take that work at a total expense
of SIS, including their railroad fare,
estimated at S. Board and lodging
may be had at $1.25 per day, totall-
ing $3.50. And an incidental fee of
$3.50 will be charged to cover the eX-
penses of the course Board will be
had at the mess hall with lodging in
the dormitores. These dormitories
are lighted with electricity and are
provided with sewerage and shower
baths on every floor. Sheets, towels,
etc, will be furnished by the college
Where the student does not take his
meals at the mess hall the charge for
lodging will be 25 cents day,
This year the course will be divid
ed into four distinct departments
These are the divisions of agronomy,
animal husbandry, dairy husbandry
and horticulture Heads of the depart
ments of the college will conduct the
work in these various divisions, in
surfing thorough instruction. While
the work will not be overcrowded,
thorough courses will be given in
those four departments within the sly
days of the course. In the agronomy
department live stock feeding, grain
judging and testing, farm leyelling
and terracing, soil fertilization, com
position of soils, tile drainage, farm
management farm machinery, farm
buildings, the growing of corn, COW
peas, cotton alfalfa, forage crops and
crop rotation, live stock breeding
silos and silage and other kindred top
les will form the subject of study.
The animal husbandry, division Of
soils. fertilization and the growing O.
corn, cowpeas, forage crops, silos and
silage and other basic subjects will be
taught just the same as in the agron.
omy division and in fact in all of the
other divisions. Purely technical sub
jects for consideration will be- Live
stock feeding and breeding, judging
beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep, hogs,
horses and contagious abortion, tuber-
culosis, unsoundness of horses and
garget
Purely technical subjects in the
dairy husbandry division will be milk
testing and record keeping, dairy
buildings, dairy machinery, butter
making, herd management, clean milk
production, judging dairy cattle, rela'
tive profits of various branches of
dairying, such as ice cream making.
butter making, etc. In addition in
struction on diseases of dairy herds
such as abortion, tuberculosis an6
garget will be given.
The horticultural division will offer
the same course along soils and soil
fertilization as the other divisions,
Farm management and tile drainage
also will be offered and the following
typical subjects will be taught: Plant
propagation, study of peaches and
pears, budding and grating, citrus
fruits and figs, grapes and berries
vegetable gardening, cover crops, or
chard protection, entomology, plant
diseases, tree surgery. Much of this
work will be done in the orchards.
All of the work will be of very
practical nature. Practice work will
constitute a big portion of the SEIZED
uled time. The college orchards,
dairy barns, fields, veterinary hospital
etc, will be available for use
Interviews published in various pa
pers following the close Of the short
course during the winter holidays also
are contained in the booklet sent out
by Mr.. Kyle Students who attended
the school last Christmas were loud
in their praise of the instruction
given.
At nights there will be lectures.
Two of these will be popular lectures
while the others will be strictly tech
meal. Other subjects to be discussed
at these lectures are Injurious In
sects, PLANT Diseases Texas Fe.
yer" and Hog Cholera
The short course will be conducted