528 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



can have at the capitol down here at Des Moines. She stated that her 

 sympathies and feelings were with the country. 



They have a very pleasant campus at Ames and Margaret Hall makes 

 a very pleasant home for the young ladies and the Y. M. C. A. building 

 for the young men. They also have social events in connection with the 

 work there. Mrs. A. B. Storms very kindly entertained the girls of the 

 short course one evening at her home, which we greatly appreciated. 



Among the many courses offered at this school is a four years' course 

 in domestic science. 



If one is choosing a college course I consider this course at Ames a 

 very much more practical course for the average young lady than many 

 of the courses. I fully believe that one of the highest callings for a 

 young lady is to be a good housekeeper, which, I judge from their talk, 

 many of the teachers there are. 



I consider this year's method of their short course an improvement on 

 former years, as heretofore they had demonstration work done by the 

 teachers, while this year each student did actual laboratory work. They 

 expect next year to give a second year's work on the short course, which 

 is another improvement. 



There were between 40 and 50 young ladies taking the short course this 

 year and next year I hope to see twice that number, as I consider it very 

 beneficial and I believe the day is coming when there is going to be 

 more attention given to this subject. 



WHO SHOULD BUY IMPROVED BREEDING STOCK? 

 Wallaces' Farmer. 



It is not every farmer who should attend public sales to buy breeding 

 stock. The scrub farmer, the farmer who has made no better than the 

 ordinary provision for the pasturing, feeding, and sheltering of stock, 

 has no business to buy improved stock. The scrub is a hardy fellow, can 

 stand almost anything, is satisfied with little, and is worth little. Hence 

 the proper kind of stock for the scrub farmer is scrub stock. 



The scrub farmer who is accustomed to raising scrub stock is a direct 

 menace to the breeding interests, and it is unfortunate for any breeder of 

 improved stock to sell them to the man who cannot give them improved 

 care. For this improvement has been made by better feeding and better 

 housing as well as by careful observance of the laws of heredity or breed- 

 ing. If they are taken out of this better environment they will naturally 

 degenerate into scrubs, and worse than scrubs; for they do not have the 

 vitality of the scrub and hence succumb the more quickly to the hard, 

 scrub conditions. 



The man who undertakes to invest in improved cattle before he has im- 

 proved pastures and sufficient buildings makes a mistake which he will 

 sooner or later find to be very costly. Farmers who have improved pas- 

 tures very often make an almost equally costly mistake in the line of 

 shelter. They have paid big money for improved stock, have pasture and 

 feed enough; but, like the pious old lady who filled her pastor's cup up 



