FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IX. 627 



The last three days of the course was devoted to the study of hogs, 

 the college furnishing good specimens of the numerous breeds. This be- 

 ing the greatest hog State in the Union it is highly important that we 

 carefully study both breed and market types so we can keep our State at 

 the forefront in this class of farm products. 



Two of the most interested students in both corn and live stock work 

 were ladies — Miss Genevieve Milnes, senior student in the college, and 

 Miss Alice Mann, of Irvington, Iowa. Miss Mann, with her brother, owns 

 and runs a 200-acre farm. She is a college graduate, has been a most 

 sucessful teacher and is now a prosperous farmer. In speaking of the 

 work given at this short course school, she said: 



"The short course is a great thing for Iowa farmers, and more wom- 

 en should attend. Tbere will be more another year. We are going 

 tc do missionary work, and when the ice is once broken the women will 

 come. There are many features that will prove of the greatest practical 

 value to farmers' wives. Every farmer of Iowa should be here and he 

 cannot afford to leave his wife at home. 



"The corn work especially is an enjoyable study to me. My brother 

 and I run a farm of two hundred acres. We raise a small herd of good 

 cattle, and after this course I will be better able to take charge of the 

 cattle work. I expect to specialize, however, in breeding corn. I expect 

 to select some type that is suited to our soils and climate and to breed 

 this corn exclusively. I expect to do what I can as fast as I learn to 

 produce seed corn of a pure breed. I will be back next year, and T expect 

 a good many more women here next year." 



In answer to the question, "Are we laying too much stress upon this 

 matter of corn judging?" a short extract is given from an address to the 

 short course students by Prof. C. F. Curtiss: 



"Someone asked a great artist what the essential thing to success 

 was, and he replied, 'seeing right,' i. e., you must have an eye and a con- 

 ception of what is right before you can succeed. This is equally true in 

 agricultural work, you must have a high standard of what is right before 

 you can do right. 



"In judging corn the first thing is to be able to 'see right,' to see the 

 defects, the good points, etc. This is the reason why so much stress has 

 l3een placed upon the judging of corn and stock. If we were simply mak- 

 ing judges, as judges, we might be open to criticism. No man can be 

 a successful breeder of corn or of stock, a good corn producer or a pro- 

 ducer of any high class products without he he a good judge of them. 



"A man must first know what the product is before he can produce 

 the best product. The judging of the corn and stock, which we are lay- 

 ing so much stress upon, lies at the foundation of all the improvement 

 in agricultural work." 



May this short course work continue to prove a helpful factor in ad- 

 vancing agricultural interests, researches and prosperity in Iowa. 



