1260 jSFew York State Agricultural Society 



Tlic course in dairy liusbundrj will be the care aud liaudling 

 of milk, judging cattle, making butter and cheese and other mat- 

 ters connected with modern dairying. Three different separators 

 have been loaned to the schools by the companies making them and 

 thus the pupil is taught the use and care of the standard makes. 



In farm bookkeeping, the pupil will be given a course in the 

 keeping of all kinds of farm accounts, breeding, milk, stock and 

 feed records, making out of bills, inventories, estimates, averages, 

 the principles of banking, credits, money accounts, vjtc. 



The agricultural English will be something out of the ordinary 

 in English work. The student will be taught how to write business 

 letters, study government bulletins, farm journals, read the 

 weather reports, crop reports, will be given special subjects to read 

 up on and write about, such as dry farming, commercial vs. home- 

 mixed fertilizers, etc. In fact all the work will be from the stand- 

 point of the farmer's life and environment. 



The Avork in arithmetic will be along the sam© Hue of farm 

 problems, computing of balanced rations, contents of silos, bins 

 and hay stacks, computing of simple farm accounts, interest prob- 

 lems as they affect the every day transactions of the farmer, cost 

 of building barns, sheds, etc. 



This in brief is an outline of the work proposed and no boy 

 can take this course for the twelve weeks it will cover without 

 being greatly helped and at the same time he can feel that he has 

 done all in his power to become a better and more successful 

 farmer. 



There will of necessity be a small tuition for this course of 

 $5.00 which will cover all laboratory and shop fees with the excep- 

 tion of breakage. Any further information may be obtained from 

 either Professor Avery or Principal Sumner. Lot us have a good 

 class this winter. AH aboard for the short winter course. 



These schools must do something for the general community 

 interest in the form of lectures. Every farming community has a 

 wealth of equipment desirable for a school of agriculture. Reports 

 from schools now in operation indicate that the owners are almost 

 without exception glad to assist the school in the use of this 

 material. One toachor reports that men who arc unwilling to 

 cooperate are usually the ones without much worth. Several of 



