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PART IV. 



IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 

 AND MECHANIC ARTS. 



A TEN DAYS' COURSE IN AGRICULTURE FOR THE BUSY FARMER. 



By W. H. Olin. 



Professor Curtiss, as the director of the work in agriculture, and 

 Professor Kennedy, as professor of animal husbandry in the Iowa State 

 College at Ames, decided in 1901 to offer to farmers of the state who 

 could spare the time in January to come to the college, a ten days' course 

 in the study of farm stock, using all the college facilities for this work. 

 Fully two hundred responded to this invitation the first year. 



Last year Professor Curtiss added corn judging to the course. This 

 met with such success that this year Professor Kennedy in charge of 

 live stock judging and Professor Holden in charge of the corn judging 

 classes arranged the work in four periods of two hours each, while the 

 classes were divided into two sections. This gave each section four 

 hours each day for corn and four hours for stock judging. 



This short course school was held during the midwinter vacation — ■ 

 January 5th to 17th, just when farmers could best get away from home 

 and the professors could give all their time to the work. 



The good work done preceding years caused an increased enrollment 

 of earnest, zealous farmers with their sons who came "to do business." 



Nearly every county in Iowa was represented, while corn-growing and 

 stock-raising farmers from Canada, Mexico, Virginia, Kansas, Wisconsin, 

 Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, Minnesota and Illinois came to share with 

 them the practical instruction given at this school, taxing both the 

 agronomy and agricultural husbandry departments to handle the large 

 classes. 



More than three hundred and fifty students were regularly enrolled 

 taking full work in both departments, while those only present for part 

 time made the attendance over four hundred. 



WORK IN CORX JUDGING. 



The corn school was held in the college dining hall, the largest room 

 in any building on the campus. Here forty tables- provided room for 160 

 students in a class, giving two samples of corn of ten ears each for every 

 student. 



Farmers owning from one hundred to one thousand acres of land came 

 to this school that they might learn how to make their seed selections 



