New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-12-08
UNIVERSITY FARM SCHOOL
KEEP OPEN HOUSE FOR
THEM SOON.
ELABORATE PLANS MADE TO EN-
TERRAIN AND INSTRUCT THE
VISITORS.

opportunity Tor the farmers OF Mime
sofa to get together in order to acquaint
themselves with the progress being made
in the business of farming and for an
exchange of ideas.
All other classes of business men get
together frequently for exactly similar
purposes. Why should not the farmers?
In the course of the week, will be offered
discussions and demonstrations such
as will help the farmer to solve problems
of the kind he comes face to face with
almost daily. These among other things,
will deal with:
Agricultural engineering. - Con-
crete construction, drainage, gasoline
engines, plumbing, and roads.
Dairy and animal husbandry.-
Types, care, feeding, diseases, and pests
of dairy and beef cattle and of hogs,
horses, and sheep; milk-testing, cow
testing, community breeding, and
creamery management.
Farm crops, farm management,
and soils.-What farmers make and
how they make it, what makes farm
pay, farm accounting and the taking of
inventories, corn varieties and types,
seed corn selection and judging, the
value of homegrown seed, cooperative
experiments, crop rotation, the arrange
ment of the farmstead, live stock in it's
relation to farm management, how to
save on farm labor, soil fertility.
Horticulture, botany, and entomo-
logy.-Orchard cultivation, plant pests,
vegetable seed testing, planting, pruning,
seed selection, plant diseases, farm tree
planting, supplemental irrigation, in
secticides and fungicides, spraying, and
windbreaks.
Poultry and Bees.-Poultry housing,
feeding chicks, natural incubation and
brooding, killing and picking, breeds of
poultry, poultry ailments and pests; the
bee farm, bee strains, bee location,
sources Of honey, hives and tools, spring
management of bees, swarming, comb
and extracted honey, wintering bees,
feeding and robbing, marketing honey.
Veterinary science.-Lectures on the
treatment of diseases common among
farm animals.
All the work of the week will be in
tensely practical. 1t is study, but study
made easy and clear because it deals with
concrete things such as the farmer is in
daily contact with. It is the kind of
work that adds to ones experience and
makes his work at home count for more
in acutal dollars and cents.
me-maker's week is for the women
of Minnesota, whether they come from
the farm, the town, or the city home.
It will offer talks and demonstrations
such as cannot fail to be of immense
value to any housewife. Mrs. Harriet
L. B. Darling, who has won a national
reputation by her lectures on home
problems, will be among the speakers.
Morning lectures will outline the
principles involved in problems of foods,
of the handling of the family budget, of
the care of the sick, and of house-planning
and equipment; and afternoon demon
strations, which will include, for example,
the preparation of typical meals, will
make practical application of the prin-
ciples discussed in the morning.
A summary of the things on the pro-
gram for Homemaker's week follows:
Principles of nutrition.-A dis
cussion of foods and of the use of each
in nourishing the body; of digestion and
the taking up of the various elements
into the bodily system; of the foods
needed to maintain the body; of the
protein needed by the body; of the COM
parative cost and value of typical foods.
The cost of food and the family
budget.-The cost of food in relation
to the income; the preparation of typical
meals for specified cost; the foodstuffs
consumed per capita; the energy value
in different foods.
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having to do with the care of children.
House-planning and equipment
Discussion OF the specially needed things
in laying out and furnishing the home.
Household sanitation.-Food pre-
servation, contamination Of milk, water
supply, sterilization, disinfection.
Home care of the sick:-Household
equipment for illness: care of the. sick
room; observation and care of the patient.
In addition there will be general
lectures and entertainments of great
interest.
Conferences, also of great practical
value, will be features of Farmers and
Home makers' week. Among these will
be represented the interests of the follow
ing:
i Farmers clubs.
| Livestock breeders associations, in