New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-01-02
1UNIV BR Eek
FOR FAR n Err FOLK
Mr.. HUsBANDMAN AND BETTER
HALF HOLD IMPORTANT
MEET THIS WEEK
STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
OFFERS THEM VALUABLE
ASSISTANCE


University Farm at St. Paul. It is
the 4th annual Farmers and Home
makers week. Beginning with Mon
day the sessions will last the entire
week.
Programs for Men.
No charge is made for the studies
or meetings to those who register.
The only expenses are those for trans
portation to and from the University
Farm, and for room and board. Any
man or woman interested in farming
and the betterment Of rural life or
the improvement Of the home is welcome
without any preliminaries as to entrance
examinations or previous school train
ing.
For the farmers there will be work
in agricultural engineering, animal hus-
bandry, dairy husbandry, farm crops,
farm manal ement and soils, horticul-
ture, botany and entomology, poultry
and bees, taxes and veterinary and
medicine.
Work for Home-Makers.
The general plan for the Home
Makers n Short Course consists in
offering number of series or courses
Of five daily lectures and demonstra-
tions, each series dealing with a sep
arate topic Of interest to home-makers.
The lectures and demonstrations deal
ing with each topic are arranged with the
expectation that the larger number
in attendance will be present through
out the week. Single lectures and
demonstrations will, however, be OF
interest to those who can attend only
single sessions.
Three series, these dealing with home
nursing, child welfare, and home man
agement, are offered in one group with the
expectation that each person in atten-
dance will wish to include them in her
program.
For the home makers are scheduled
lectures or demonstrations on home
care for the sick, child welfare, home
management, principles of nutrition,
planning OF meals and calculation of
nutritive- values, conservation of food
values, conservation problems in the
purchase Of fabrics, thrift suggestions
for the home dressmaker, millinery
demonstrations, art principles OF every
day life, dress designs, house planning
and house furnishing.
The Farmers Club Convention.
At this Short Course there will also
be a meeting Of the Minnesota State
Federation Of Farmers Clubs. At the
meeting held in January 1916 this
state federation was formed with about
$50 delegates present.
In 1917 another excellent federation
meeting was held. It has been the
policy Of the board of directors tc
devote part of each convention te
some educational topic. In 1917, three
sessions were devoted to a careful
study Of the new federal land bank
act and this conference had a great
deal to do with the general understand
ing of the act and its successful in
PRODUCTION in the state.
Since the meeting last January sew
Eeral counties have organized county
declarations, and now about 40 counties
are federated. The constitution Of
the Minnesota federation of Farmers
Clubs provides for two delegates, pref.
erably one man and one woman, from
each county; the delegates to be elect
led by the county federation, where
|such is IN existence, but where there
is no county federation the farmers
clubs in the count may well call .
special meeting to which all of the
clubs are invited, and elect delegates
Before seated, the delegates from each
county must pay a fee Of 81 from each
club represented, and present creden.
|tials showing that they are the duly
elected delegates for the county. The
program arranged by the officers o.
LIE II eu1TdIlOu Will llSuIeg q Nd1udUlS
convention for all delegates and mem
bers.
Live Stock Associations.
The Minnesota Livestock Breeders
Association will hold its annual meet;
ing Thursday January 8, in the Live.
stock Pavilion, beginning at q "a. m
This is the general association Of live.
stock interests Of the state. Among the
various auxiliary associations that will
hold their meetings during the week can
be mentioned the Minnesota Swine
Breeders Assoc iation, Minnesota Sheep
Breeders association, Minnesota Aber-
deem Angus Breeders Association,
Minnesota Hereford Breeders, Associa-
ton, Minnesota Holstein Breeders Asso-
ciation. Guernsey Breeders Association
LOT Minnesota, Minnesota Red Polled
Association, Minnesota Ayrshire
Breeders Assoc iation, Minnesota Jersey