Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-25
One Million Students to Be Enrolled
In Big Government Radio University

T HERE will be opened in Wash
ington on October ! new
university. It's students Will
hes drawn from the Nation
and 1t will have within a short
time of its establishment an enroll
ment, the largest. perhaps, of any
known university in the world-oNer
a million students.
This university will be known as
the National Radio Farm School OF
the Department of Agriculture, and II
will offer in It's first curriculum "a
short courses on farming and kindred
subjects of eight lessons each. The
farmer himself will be taken care Oh,
the wife on the farm and the chit
Cren within the farm family. There
will he lessons on live stock--its care
and propagation--crops, poultry, gar
dens. fiowers--and II is even limited
the care of golf greens!
Beginning the 4th of October,
with his farm at his back as labora.
tory, Mr.. American Farmer VIII twirl
the button on his radio and then pro-
coed to sit back and listen from the
mouth OF one of some 100 broadcast
ing stations throughout the United
states all about the ins and outs OF
farming.
Perhaps Mr.. Farmer Is interested
in live stock feeding and production.
Then, on Monday OF each week for
eight weeks. he will hear 15-min,
ute discourse on the problems con-
fronting the live stock farmer. He
win get lesson on the best beef
breeds. the feeds that will produce the
quickest gains, how to select beef
types for the feeding pens, hogs after
cattle ad infinitum. AS suggested, he
will have at his back his farm labora-
tory, where the hints and suggestions
thrown out the night before may be
put into practice in the early morn.
ing, ere they are lost In the confusion
OF his everyday work world.
If it is poultry that Mr.. American
Farmer is interested in, then he--or
Mrs. American Farmer--Inay tune in
on Wednesday evenings and hear
poultry breeds and poultry care dis
cussed to hls-or her--heart's con-
tent. There will he talks on selec-
tion of breeds for laying purposes,
table service. incubation, care of lit
tie chicks and what not else. The
poultry industry Is one of the great
agricultural pursuits of the country,
and the lectures are bound to prove
interesting, instructive and eco
nomically worth while.
On Friday evenings the dairymen
of the Nation will assemble around
their receiving sets and for 15 minutes
will listen to practical talks on dairy
ing. And no bigger subject than this
one exists in agricultural America.
For dairying. while not only a most
profitable farming enterprise-espe.
Gladly when engaged in near The larger
population centers of the country
from another standpoint is profitable
In soil upbuilding as well In truth.
a dairy herd Is the most valuable
farm asset that can be found. 1t
enriches the land constantly through
manure fertilization, and at the same
time keeps its owners purse filled
with change from butter, cream and
milk, not TO say anything OF offspring
sales.
One might 20 on endlessly enumer.
ating the advantages that viii accrue
to the American farmer through this
school. Nothing has as yet been said
of the program that viii have to do
With the grain CROPS of the great Mis-
sissippi Valley, where millions may be
saved annually to the growers by
timely discourses on insect pests that
destroy acres and acres OF growing
corn, wheat and oats; of the South,
where the boil weevil plays havoc
with the cotton crop, and the tobacco
blight, with that, weeds culture. Then
there are the timber lands soil fer
tility, hillside farming. soil cultiva-
ton, etc.
Not the least of those to be bene
flied by this great, generous service
of the Governments IS the woman on
the farm. Her lot has not been, alto
gether, as happy as that of her hus-
band on the land. Mechanical inven-
tons and. improvements have taken,
to a great extent, out of farm labor
the old, old evil of backache. First
came along the riding pillow, then its
companion, the riding cultivator, and
then the tractor to make of farming
from the labor standpoint---an inviting
prospect for the energies of man. But
not so with the farm woman. Her
burdens, where lightened have been
lightened largely byA electric power.
The trimming and filling of lamps
which must always be kept ready for
instant family use; hot stoves for hot
irons for ironing, hot stoves for hot
ovens for baking, hot stoves for ram
lily laundering, for canning, preserving
and meals--all these, and other back
breaking and wearisome household du-
ties on the farm, have not been light
ened save by electricity; and how
many farms of the Nation have power
So portion of the. Government
radio farm schools time will be given
over to discussion Of questions OF
interest to the woman on the farm.
There will be timely suggestions to
the housewives of the Nations agri-
cultural population featured by ex-
perts from the Bureau of Home Eco
nomics. The latest methods of fruit
preserving will be discussed; new
WAYS to undertake old duties, so as
to lessen some Of the hackaches and
make them more attractive, will be
aired: suggestions as TO household
improvements and. household ma.
chinery for reducing labor, giving to
the women of the farm an oppor-
tunity to enjoy the cool of the eve
ming in the family automobile. will
be INDUCED In. FlowerjA and gardens
will he talked; hints forsscolor schemes
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