INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN PRAIRIE STATE 



covering four years, while including chem- 

 istry, physics, civics, and history and 

 emphasizing English, mainly embraces 

 subjects directly related to agriculture. 

 Such are breeds and judging, general stock, 

 dairy and poultry husbandry, agricultural 

 botany and entomology, horticulture, soils, 

 crops, modes of tillage; the anatomy, physi- 

 ology and hygiene of domestic animals; 

 forge work and farm machinery, farm 

 economics and management 



Instruction methods are of the best. 

 Laboratory work is prominent. Specimen 

 animals of the various breeds and types are 

 brought before whole classes in the pavilion, 

 lectured upon and judged by the score card. 

 Pupils acquire great proficiency in this art, 

 outdoing their seniors at home, who proceed 

 by rule of thumb. 



A great deal of useful veterinary knowl- 

 edge is imparted, the diagnosis and treat- 

 ment of ordinary animals' diseases, locating 

 horses' lamenesses and determining often 

 cause and cure, the principles of good shoe- 

 ing, and so on. Farm machinery has to be 



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