Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1920-12-24
WOMEN JOIN MEN
IN FARMING CLASSES
Two Women Among Seventeen Stu
dents of University Short Courses


The short course in Testing Dairy
Products" which is the first of series
of two weeks short courses given at the
Agricultural College opened recent
ly with a full attendance which taxes
the laboratory room and equipment
to the limit to accommodate the seven
teen earnest young men and women
who have entered the course. These
fifteen men and two women are new
hard at work preparing themselves for
positions in dairy plants, or Tor COW
test or advanced registry supervisors.
The following special instructors are
assisting the regular college force in
giving this course--H Z. Bremen Of the
State Department of Agriculture,
Montpelier, Vermont; George German,
State Creamery Inspector, Rutland,
Vermont; and R. G.. Dunning, Advanc-
ed Registry Supervisor of Winooski,
Vermont. Glasses extend from 8 to II
and from to 6 daily Some days the
work starts by taking samples from
the University herd at D O'Clock in the
morning. The course will continue
for two weeks ending on December u.
Buttermaking and Herd Management
The second group of courses in the
series will start on December % and
continue until January II when the
Dairymen'S Association win be in pro-
gress at the College Gymnasium. This
will enable students to attend the AS
ISOLATION meetings. Two separate
courses will be given at this time, one
No. II in "Buttermaking and Creamery
Management" and one, No. V, in
Feeding, Care and Management OF
the Dairy Herd" Applications are
now being received for these courses
and both courses are sure to be well
filled. 1t is expected that all applicants
for Course V can be accepted, but only
a limited number can be admitted TO
Course II; therefore, those who wish to
attend should make application at once
to Prof. N. E. Ellenberger, Director
of Short Courses.
V. R. Jones, of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, A. D. Lynch of
the Mt. Mansfield Creamery, 7. NJ.
PRAYER of the Lyndonville Creamery
Association, and Francis c. Derby Of
Burlington have been engaged as spec
ial instructorSNor Course II. The Iol-
lowing are a few of the subjects which
will be studied during the course;
Grading and Judging cream, pasteuri-
cation. starters and starter making,
cream ripening, sampling ard testing,
churning, control of composition, tests
for moisture. salt and fat in butter,
and for acid, sediment and adIltera
ton in milk and cream. creamery plans
and construction, checking factory
costs and losses, why cream tests vary,
standardization, creamery by-prCducts
and side lines marketing, butter ndg-
ing and scoring, creamery organization
and business management, Accounting
and refrigeration.
Course V will take up the principles
of nutrition, feeds, the composition,
value and uses; the figuring OF rations
and feeding practice; herd improve
ment and management; breeds and
breeding of stock; conformation and
judging; common diseases and tier
treatment; and farm manag ,ment in
Guiding labor income, Layout ri the
farm, cropping systems, farm labor,
records, accounts. marketing This
course is especially planned for the
producer of milk.