 | The University of Virginia record April, 1908 |  |
AGRICULTURE.
Professor Davis.
1. Elementary Agriculture.—The following topics will be
treated: Corn selection; production of good seed corn, 229, 272, 313;
testing seeds for vitality, 25; butt, middle and tip kernels of seed
corn; conditions for germination; treating soils for acidity, soils and
moisture, 266; poison in soils, 257; rotation of crops; study of nodules
on legume roots, 278; renovation of worn-out soils, 245; clover and
alfalfa seed, 194, 260, 306; alfalfa in the eastern states, 215; roots of
the corn plants, 199; curing clover hay; weeds and how to kill them,
28; cotton seed and its products, 36; uses of soiling crops, 242; catch
crops and cover crops, 278; cuttings for house plants, 157; layering
and plant division, 157; budding peach trees; pruning a fruit tree,
181; the home garden, 255; the school garden question, 218; varieties
of chickens, 51; breeds of cattle, 143, 106; breeds of swine, 205. Substitute
lessons; Types of horses; gluten in flour; souring of milk,
29. Numbers refer to United States Farmers' Bulletin. Lessons are
subject to change.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. West Range Laboratory.
2. Agriculture for High Schools.—The following topics will
be treated: The farmers' interest in good seed, 111; corn judging
(with score card); doubling the cotton crop, 285, 302; soil moisture
and dust mulch, 266; enemies of cotton, 209, 211, 212, 216, 217, 290;
the coddling moth, 171, 247; the plum curcullo; scale insects; uses of
insecticides, 243; making Bordeaux Mixture, 127; prevention of
potato scab; prevention of grain smut, 250; pruning a grape vine, 118,
156; a collection of economic seeds for school use; nutritive value of
foods; 142; plant food in bones; value of wood ashes for soils; testing
soils for fertility; experiments to show capillarity in different soils;
some principles of drainage, 187; plowing under green crops, 278;
inoculation of legumes, 240, 315; legumes as food, 121; testing milk
and cream for butter fat; improving dairy herds by culling; winter
forage crops, 147; testing for tuberculosis; poultry raising on the
farm, 141; winter production of eggs; eggs and their uses as food;
hog raising, 100; fundamental principles of forestry, 173, 228. Numbers
at right refer to United States Farmers' Bulletins. Lessons subject
to change.
Daily, from 9:45 to 10:45. West Range Laboratory.
| The University of Virginia record April, 1908 | |