Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-01-01

Practical demonstrations in lieu of
class room lectures and text book as
signments will be the keynote of the
approaching Winter School for
Farmers at w. S. c. and the
change, which is in line with the
agricultural demonstrations" which
are encouraged throughout the
United States by the recent Smith
Lever legislation, will be very
marked. In earlier stages, the in
struction included In farmers win
ter schools In Washington as well as
other states. was much the same as
that offered to long-term students.
so far as method is concerned. 1t
consisted OF lectures, in which note
taking, and text book assignments
were leading features.
The more recent movement in ag-
ricultural extension does not entirely
dispense with the formerly used
methods; but it recognizes a new
principle, learned after years of ex-
periensce namely, that tho quickest
and most effective way to reach the
farmer is the appeal not wholly by
oral argument, but by showing him.
Students of the approaching Winter
School at Pullman will therefore be
invited to forego the luxury of steam
heated class rooms, and in lieu
thereof will attend class in the stock
pavilion, the poultry house, the bull
barn, the farm machinery building.
the dairy barn, the milk house, the
seed curing room, the hog houses,
and, when the weather is not too
near the zero point, out in the or
ehard where pruning will be taught
A herd of % dairy cows Is being
groomed for the approaching occa-
sion, and their performances will be
one of the valuable, practical lessons
which will be offered to dairymen.
Angel, quite properly, is the best
one in the herd She is now in her
ninth month of milk, and the first
three months gave as high as 81
pounds daylight pounds consti-
tuting a gallon; and is now giving
65 pounds a day. Her milk tests
Y per cent butterfat Idle White
is a big Holstein, fact somewhat
belied by her name-for she Is not
white, but black. She is giving SIS
pounds of milk daily and it runs a
little richer than the milk of Angel.
Pieterje gives 45 pounds of milk
day, and has run within a hair of
this production every day for nine
months, rain or sunshine notwith-
standing She is two-year-oid
heifer of the Holstein breed Ouch
ess and Copia, Holsteins, are giving
60 pounds q day.
Gertie is the best Jersey in the
bunch. She is a two-year-old, gives
80 pounds of milk day, which av-
erages a little under seven per cent
butterfat.
The heavy producing cows are
MIXED three times daily--at four in
the evening, at midnight, and at
eight in the morning. Two students
who are earning their way through
college sleep in the dairy barn and
get up at midnight to do the milking.
The others are MIXED twice daily
at four in the morning and four in
the evening. The grain ration of
the cows consists of oats, barley, and
bran in equal parts, 10 pounds daily
OF which is fed to the Holsteins and
five to eight to the Jerseys. They
are given corn silage, of which the
Jerseys get 30 pounds daily and the
Holstens 40, and. in addition each
cow Is given all the alfalfa hay she
can clean up, the amount running
from 10 to Is pounds daily.
The above system of daily manage
ment supplemented by the necessary
lectures, explanations. and demon
STATIONS will be laid out in practical
terms for the benefit of the Winter
work of which includes
equally practical demonstrations IN
dairy manufactures-ice cream. but
ter. cheese, and so on. On an equal-
ly practical basis will be the work ID
other phases of animal husbandry
The hog houses are well stocked with
pigs of several breeds and Of all
ages. There are Poland Chinas,
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