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for the instructors to use in demonstrating their methods of teaching 

 live-stock judging, dressing and curing meats, judging grain, making 

 gluten, sponge and baking trials with Hour, and in thrashing, grading, 

 and milling wheat. Animals were slaughtered in the presence of stu- 

 dents and demonstrations given of the cutting and curing of meats. 

 Exercises in judging corn and small grains, and in placing rings of 

 all of the market and breeding classes of cattle, sheep and swine, con- 

 stituted tin 1 programme rendered from day to day. 



Sessions of the school were held daily in the forenoon, afternoon, 

 and evening. Moving pictures representing the active work of 

 students in judging live stock, studying farm mechanics, judging corn, 

 carrying out the exercises in agricultural engineering, and the work of 

 plant and animal breeding, were thrown upon the screen at intervals 

 during the day. Addresses upon various phases of plant and animal 

 breeding, feeding, methods of instruction, and kindred subjects were 

 also delivered throughout the four weeks of the school. Approxi- 

 mately fifty lectures were given during the two periods, and a total of 

 fifty students from various institutions took part in the work of the 

 school from time to time. 



The exercises in judging live stock and grains and the demonstra- 

 tion of the methods employed in instruction proved to be of much 

 interest and attracted good-sized crowds. The slaughtering and cook- 

 ing trials especially attracted the attention of the stock breeders and 

 exhibitors present, who followed the trials closely and seemed to take 

 a deep interest in them. It was frequently pointed out by visitors 

 that the experiment stations are singularly well fitted to conduct 

 slaughter trials, in which animals which have ranked well on foot are 

 submitted without favor or prejudice to the crucial on the block, since 

 private exhibitors often hesitate to take the risk. 



The demonstration of the methods employed in plant-breeding w T ork 

 at the experiment stations was quite complete. Matured plants of oats, 

 wheat, barley, spelt, millet, and flax, and young corn plants were set 

 in natural form as they appear in the plant nurseries in actual work, 

 with about two-thirds the usual interspaces. The} T were shown in all 

 stages, some with clipped borders, others partially culled out in select- 

 ing the better plants, and others with the final or choice plants only 

 remaining, which were to be kept for seed. On other plats the plants 

 were harvested and placed in their proper receptacles. 



Specimen record books were displayed and forms of plant pedigrees 

 as they are ordinarily kept were shown. All forms of plant records 

 and labels used in experimental work were shown in position as they are 

 used in this work, so that visitors were able to see the entire system 

 which has been worked out for plant breeding. A thrashing machine 

 for plant-breeding work, a fanning mill, electric bake oven, and a small 

 patent roller test mill (used for determining the grade of flour which a 



