The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-08
LARGE ENR0LLMENTS
IN FARM COURSES
FROM ALL OVER
STATE ENROLL IN SHORT WIN
TER COURSE AT MADISON.
Many Train For Dairy WOrk-Eight-
cen Counties Employ Agricul-
tural Representatives.

A number Of young men of this
section Of the state, are planning to
enroll for the Short Course in Agricul-
ture, which, on December First, opens
its tlfrty-first consecutive Germ of
fourteen weeks instruction in better
farming methods, at the College of
Agriculture, University of Wiscon-
sin, Madison.
According to reports from ID. II.
Otis, in charge of the course, already
there have been received application
from a total of forty-five prospective
students, living in thirty different
counties of the state. This number, of
course will be increased steadily be-
tween now and the opening of the
term.
1t is thought that a large majority
Of the men who completed their first
years study last winter, will return
for the second term of the course
In an effort to make the course of
even greater value to young men and
ing in the art and science of farm
ing as practiced in Wisconsin, the
course has been strengthened and i'm
proved during the past year. Stu
dents will have a better chance to
select work in which they are most
Interested, and new instructors and
equipment have been added to render
more direct service to those who
attend
Owing to the big demand for train
ed poultrymen, arrangements have
been made whereby courses in poultry
husbandry may be taken throughout
the entire Short Course, instead of at
restricted periods as heretofore.
Most of the following students who
attended the Short course at Madison
for the first time last winter expect
to complete their studies this year:
Walter Abendroth, Waterloo; Sam
Tuition, Glenn Holcombe, Royal Nor
they, Palmyra; Raymond Bridge, Lake
Mills; Leslie Klement, Ray Nelson
Fort Atkinson; Louis ]. Lange, Water
town.
George Fleming, ,Jr., jefferson and
III. c. Macy, Fort Atkinson, have ap-
piled for admission to the first year
of the course when it opens in Dec
ember.
Dairy Course Opens.
In order to give students chance
to vote at home on election day, the
winter dairy course at the University
of Wisconsin opened one week later
than it's usual schedule. Last week
an advance enrolment of 130 men had
been made. OF these, only two are
from outside Of Wisconsin, one being
from Indiana, and the other from
Louisiana.
One new instructor, d. F.. Mattson,
formerly with the Indiana State dairy
inspection service at Purdue Univers-
ity, has been secured to carry on the
work in city milk supply and ice
cream making, until recently in charge
of A G. Baer, now with the Oklahoma
College of Agriculture The course
opened Wednesday, November 8, and
will last for twelve weeks.
Agricultural Representatives.
Bayfield,, bayfield, will be the
eighteenth county in Wisconsin to en-
ploy an agricultural representative to
aid its farmers in successfully carry
ing on their work. The appointment
Of V. E. Brubaker, a native of Ohio,
has been recommended by the COM
mittee having this matter in charge.
Mr. Brubaker is a graduate of the
College of Agriculture, at the Ohio
State University, where he specialized
in horticulture subjects. Immedi-
ately after graduation, and for a
period of years, he was employed in
the Growers Service Department Of
the H. j. Heinz Company. He will
give special attention til problems
of the fruit growers of the Bayfield,
Peninsula, this being one of the lead
ing fruit raising sections OF the state.
Other Wisconsin counties employ
ing representatives are Ashland, Bar
ron, Burnett, Douglas, Eau Claire,
Polk, Portage, Price, Rusk, Sawyer,
Taylor, Villas. and Walworth.