The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1914-11-20

Columbia, Nov. lS-HOW to set up
the frame of building, how to mix
concrete, how to Judge live stock and
corn, how to make good butter, how
to treat stock diseases, and the chow
to" of 4 hundred other farm Jobs is
taking the time of the short course
students in the College of Agriculture
of the University of Missouri Every
thing they are taking is as interesting
as important. That the courses are
valued by the men taking them is
shown by the fact that of the 1919 stu
dents enrolled in the first term, 81
have been here before
There is also short course Tor
women. Around big U-shapcd table
you may see them studying the proper
methods OF food preparation. On in
dividual stoves they experiment in the
cooking Of foods. In other classes they
learn how to plan and serve meals.
There are classes in canning and pre-
serving, dressmaking, buttermaking,
and poultry raising.
The most interesting course, some
Of the men say, is shop work. we'd
ing and tempering is taught IN making
ordinary hay hooks, links, punches and
cold chisels. In the woodwork depart
ment the students are we'll along in
framing building.
In the soils department the stu
dents are experimenting with fertilizer
on soil that has been taken from their
own counties. Here are plants grow
ing in every kind Of Missouri soil, un-
der every condition, with every prac-
teal kind Of fertilizer. The nome mix
ing of fertilizer is taught SO that L
saving of - to 20 per cent can be
made on the fertilizer bill.
In the large new Judging pavilion
the students are studying and iudg
ing the best prize stock in the state.
Short course men have done so we'll
in the past that first place in the Mis-
souri, State Judging Contest held re-
Gently was won by Ray Howell of hol-
liday, Mo, 4 short course graduate.
The trophy Of the American Saddle
Horse Association was won by BaX-
ter Hall Of Clarence, Mo-. also a short
course man.
Making good butter is the most
particular Job l have ever tackled"
said one of the men the other day
The dairy department is particular
about using the best methods, just as
it is particular about the care of its
prize dairy herds.
In the veterinary laboratory the
students treat injured and diseased
animals sent for treatment by farmers
near Columbia The man who has COM
pleted this course is fully able to
handle all ordinary stock diseases.
II IL IN DttltO tHCtI 1OV l!itlt SUI
dents will enter the second term of
the short course. At that time, Jan
uary i, the special courses in dairying
and poultry raising will also begin.
Columbia, Mo, Nov. 18-"Pig for
Every Child will solve more of the
farm life problems than the man look
ing through purely scientific glasses
may realize. Secretary Mayes of the
State Board of Agriculture is guilty
of coming that homely phrase. He
says "Give every child pig and let
that pig belong to that child in fact,
not a play pig" The practical Pig
Club in every farm home will buy
more ponies and books and new
clothes and benzine buggies and send
more boys to agricultural college than
all other clubs combined. The lad and
lassie with money in the bank and a
patch of pigs at home is not so anxious
to run street cars and limousines and
dandle away their lives down hard
streets that lead to Nocount Avenue.
Tho hoy who sticks to the hog game
is headed down Prosperity Avenue