Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-18
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WASHINGTON, d. CA plan
whereby ten or more farmers or farm
women can form home classes in agri-
culture or domestic science and receive
the textbooks, lectures, lantern slides,
laboratory and cooking equipment
necessary to conduct them has been
devised by the U. s. Department Of
Agriculture in cooperation with agri-
cultural colleges of certain states.
j. The object of the plan is to make
accessible at home, to men and women
attend the regular courses at the col
leges, practical short courses in agri-
culture and home management special
ly adapted to their districts. These
courses, which will consist of Is to 20
lectures, and will consume five or more
weeks, can be arranged to suit the
spare time and convenience of each
group of people. ...-... -.
The courses to be offered at first are
poultry raising, fruit growing, soils,
cheese manufacturing, dairying, butter
making and farm bookkeeping; and
for the women especially, courses in
the preparation, cooking and uso of
vegetable and cereal foods. The de-
partment viii supply lectures and Ian
tern slides covering these subjects,
and the states which have agreed to
cooperate in the plan will lend to each
group laboratory and cooking appara-
tus valued at 800 and reference IL
brary. The textbooks and lectures will
he made so complete that each group
can safely appoint one of it's members
as study leader to direct the work of
the course. -.
When a group has decided to take
up the work the state which cooperates
sends an agent with the department g
representative to organize sample
class and assist the leader whom they
elect in laying out the work and in
showing him the best methods of pro-
cedure. The classes commonly are
held from 500 to 1900 in the morn
ing and from loo to 400 in the after
noon, two or three days each week. The
sessions are not held every day, so that
the members will have time to attend
to their farm duties in between the
sessions, as well as before and after
ne CIdSSeS
meet commonly at the most convenient
farmhouse. During the morning hours
text book work is done. In the after
noon laboratory work is conducted,
and the women who have elected to
take the domestic science courses have
practical lessons in cooking.
As soon as a class is established, the
state organizer withdraws to start a
class in some other district. The work
thereafter is left in charge of the lead
er, who receives assistance by mail
from the college or the department in
carrying on the work.
As there is no regularly paid instruc
tor, classes can be carried on all over
the state as rapidly as the college Or
ganizer can visit the groups, and as
quickly as the laboratory sets supplied
by the college become available. The
local leader will preside during the
reading of the lectures and references,
for which full texts and lantern slides
are supplied by the department. He
will also be responsible for the labora-
tory equipment. Every one who COM
pletes the course will receive a certi-
fcate from the state college.
Not all of the states have yet
agreed to cooperate in this plan. Last
winter experiments along these lines
were carried out successfully in Penn