Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-01-15
CORN-DA|RYS SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE Is GOOD AND
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN
IN THE WORK
SCHOOL FOR LADIES POPULAR
Closest Attention is Given to In
ctructors in the Various De-
partments of Home
Economics

The Joint Corn and Dairy School
and School of Home Economics,
which is being held in this city this
week under the patronage Of the
state, in cooperation with Rusk
county, and which is being we'll at
tended, bids fair-in the Importance
of the instruction received there
from, and it's evidently purposed
practical 2pplication-to become a
historic event in the development of
farming and farm life in tn seotion.
The Corn and Dairy department of
the school divided itself into two big
units, namley: "Cows and. Dairying,"
by T. H. Scribner, of Rosendale, who
made such a good impression in his
talks at the recent state dairymen's
convention in Ladysmith, and Corn
in it's Various Phases, by ThCs. l..
BeWick of the department. Of a3ron-
omy, of the State College of Agri-
culture.
Mr.. Scribner showed how to weigh,
sample and test milk, and how to
keep the milk sheet and determine
what COWS We're yielding dividends
and what ones were mere boarders.
Milk was tested for such persons as
saw fit to bring samples to the build
ing. The feed and care Cf COWS, so
as to produce the largest possible re
turn at the minimum cost, received
much attention Perhaps the most
impressive work offered by Mr..
ScribnCr was the Instruction in judg
ing and scoring dairy cows, and prac
tice in doing the same. The cow
Judging exercise was carried on at
the KinyOn and Scott barn, at least
fifty farmers participating in the
demonstration. Cows, for the pur-
pose, were brought in by A. A. Had
den, Lester Corbett, John Ryall Mr..
DucklOw and others.
Mr.. Bewick opened his work in the
study Of corn, by exhibiting many
samples of Golden Glow"-Which is
extensively raised in the north half
of the state, and a few samples of
'Silver King" which is the staple
corn for southern Wisconsin. He
very clearly impressed his auditors
with the chief characteristics of the
former and then supplemented his
instruction with a corn Judging ex-
ercise which occupied almost the en-
tire afternoon of Wednesday. A no
ticeable thino, in this Judging ex-
erciSe was the fact that men of So,
and boys OF IS sat side by side ap-
plying the instruction that they had
received, and all showed ability to
judge with g large degree of efficien-
cy. Messrs. Scribnor and Bewick
commented to the effect that the
school and Judging were the bcst they
had known this winter.
Many farmers responded to the in
vitatiOn, extended on the opening
day, to bring in their seed corn, and
the percentage of termination was
ready to be determined Thursday.
Much attention was given to the
question CT pl@ntiIy in drills and
hills, and concerning the number of
grains to the hill width Of rows, etc.
Incidentally it was brought out
that Wisconsin raises more corn to
the acre than either Illinois or Iowa;
and also that the average yield per
acre, for the entire state, is over 40
bushels, which is Is bushels more
than the average 10 years ago. In
doubtedly this is due to the dssem-
ination of scientific knowledge con-
corning farming, and better practice
resulting therefrom And the end
is not yet.
The Home Economics School
The Home Economics department
of the school is conducted by Misses
Elizabeth Kelley, Anna Fund and
Cora E, Binzel, of the State Univer-
sity. There was no session of this
department Tuesday forenoor, the in
structors meeting with the Corn and
Dairy School. In the afternoon, Miss
Kelley spoke on the Relation of
Food to the Health of the Body Be-
ginning with infancy, she showed
how food influenced one, in each
period of development for good or
i'll, to old age, physically. By a
striking parallel, she showed also,
by illustrating, that the same influ-
ence obtains in ones deuelonment