The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-12-23
FARMERS SCHOOL
OPENS JANUARY 8
SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL AGRI-
CULTURE BEGINS A WEEK
FROM MONDAY AT THE U.

The University of Idaho is this
winter providing profitable employ
ment for the spare time OF the farm
bow in the form of the opening OF
second term of the school of practical
agriculture on January 3, 1921. The
term will run for the ten weeks OF
the slack winter season on the farms
"The right kind of an agriculturat
education" said Sherman Dickinson,
principal of the school today, "leads
to greater farm profits. The right
kind of education for the farm boy is-
that which will teach him how to
better utilize his working hours, how
to produce more and better crops and
livestock, how to get more pleasure
out of his leisure hours and how to
manage his affairs, that his total
profit will increase. This is the sort
of an education we are offering at
the University of Idaho. We are
making a special effort to make the
work of the second ten weeks term
of most practical nature. The
young men of Idaho who take adj
vantage of this opportunity should
be among the most successful of her
farmers in the future"
No examinations are necessary for
entrance Students shold have grad
uated from the eighth grade and
must be sixteen years old. An initial
fee of ten dollars is charged, five dol
lars of which is returnable at the
close of the term if school property
has not been damaged or lost. The
cost of board and room ranges from
seven to ten dollars week Text
books, laundry and incidentals should
not cost great deal Entertainment
comes as a part of the initial fee,
the student being admitted to athlet-
ic contests, debates and concerts.
Courses offered are given primarf-
ly with the idea of use. The follow
ing agricultural courses are on the
schedule: soils, grain crops, vege-
table gardening, farm motors, poul-
try production, milk production,
automobiles, farm management, prin-
ciples of breeding, feeds and feeding,
veterinary science, live stock man.
agement, irrigation and drainage,
and commercial horticulture. These
courses cannot be taken all at one
time by any one student, but a selec-
ton may be made of those subjects in
which the student is particularly in
terested.
All courses are taught by regular
instructors of the College of AgricuI-
ture and the herds, machinery, equip
ment, and buildings of the university
are all used, for instruction The
students mingle freely with the reg
ular students and take part in all
University affairs
Dean E. J. Iddings of the College
of Agriculture says, "For a consider
able number of young men in Idaho,
the school of agricultur offers won
derful opportunity to secure practical
and extremely useful information in
regard to modern agricultural prac-
tice and at the same time, gain some
of the general benefits that come
from attendance at the state college
or state university. The new term
which opens January 3, extends dur
ing ten weeks of the winter when
the young man has leased to do at
home. A large number of young
men in the state could make no bet
ter investment than to spend ten
weeks in the winter short course in
agriculture at the University at Mos
cow"
Further information relative to the
winter term, January 3 to March 9,
may be obtained by writing to the
Principal, school of practical Agri-
culture, Moscow, Idaho.