Seventy-Third Annual Report 1259 



tunity open to the boys of any otiier county in the state, but it 

 would seem that there should be a place for such a course. 



In many ways this work will be unique in that it will not adhere 

 to the traditional course of study in the regular schools, but will be 

 adapted primarily and essentially to the needs of the boys who are 

 desirous of learning something that will be of practical value, some- 

 thing that he can take home and put into actual use. There will 

 be no unessentials taught, no visionary precepts, no unnecessary 

 frills, but the work will be strictly practical every day, every 

 minute. 



Here is a chance for the boy to attend school winters and work 

 the rest of the time as they did in the " good old times." The 

 course will commence after Thanksgiving, December 2 and 

 last until Easter. Another especially interesting feature is that 

 it will take but four days each week, giving the boy Friday and 

 Saturday for necessary work at home. In other words, the boy 

 will attend school from Monday morning until Thursday night, 

 continuously, and the work all that time will be agriculture or 

 applied agricultural subjects. 



The work proposed is as follows and if any boy does not think 

 it will be worth his while, he must be hard to enthuse. Indeed it 

 is the most fascinating and tempting short course of study that 

 has ever been offered to a farmer's son. 



The subjects offered in this course are a general course in agri- 

 culture, farm mechanics, dairy husbandry, farm bookkeepings 

 agricultural English and agricultural arithmetic. All of these sub- 

 jects will be taught by the special instructor in agriculture. Profes- 

 sor T. M. Avery, a graduate of Winona College of Agriculture and 

 Cornell summer school, and each subject will be complete in itself. 



The course in general agriculture will be based on a general text 

 book, and will be supplemented with plenty of field and laboratory 

 work. It will cover the whole field of agriculture in a general 

 way, especially touching on treatment of soils, fertilizers, cereal 

 and forage crops, and animal husbandry. 



The course in farm mechanics will be work in the finely 

 equipped carpenters' shop where simple farm appliances will be 

 made, use and care of farm tools and machinery taught, and some 

 work in forging and welding will be given. 



