 | University of Virginia record March, 1913 |  |
AGRICULTURE.
Students completing six of the first seven courses in agriculture
will be qualified to teach the subject in agricultural schools and
other high schools of the country. They will be so recommended.
Agriculture 1, 8 or 9, or the equivalent should be taken preliminary
to or parallel with the more advanced courses, which may be taken
in any order. Six pupils are required to form a class in the advanced
courses.
1. General Agriculture.—This course is intended for new students
and will be of a very practical nature, planned to fit directly into
school-room needs. The newest and most useful methods will be
discussed. Exercises suitable for schools will be carried on in classroom,
field and garden. Lessons will be made real by objects and
materials. The teaching will be done by demonstrations and experimental
proofs of principles. The following topics will be treated:
corn selection; production of good seed corn; testing seeds for
vitality; butt, middle, and tip kernels of seed corn; conditions for
germination; testing soils for acidity; soils and their characteristics;
the office of root-hairs of plants; saving soil moisture; rotation of
crops; study of nodules on legume roots; renovation of wornout
soils; clover and alfalfa seeds; alfalfa in the eastern States; roots of
corn plants; curing clover hay; weeds and how to kill them; cotton
seed and its products; use of soiling crops; catch crops and cover
crops; cuttings for house plants; layering and plant divisions; budding
peach trees; pruning a fruit tree; the home garden; the school
garden.
Text-Book.—Davis' Productive Farming.
Daily, Sec. I, 9:30 to 10:30; Sec. II, 4:30 to 5:30. Professor Scott.
Chemical Laboratory.
2. Laboratory Agriculture.—This course is intended for students
who wish to teach Agriculture in high schools or upper grades.
Course 1 or 8 or 9 or an equivalent, should be taken prior to or
parallel with this course. It will be chiefly a Laboratory Course,
and one hour a day should be allowed for each work aside from
the class hour in lieu of text book work. Small collections of legumes,
grasses, seeds, weeds, and insects are made for school use.
Laboratory exercises in soils, fertilizers, drainage studies, feeds,
plant propagation, plant physiology, special crops, dairying. Field
trips are taken to study systems of cropping and management and
to familiarize students with farming details. The problems and
exercises in Warren's Elements of Agriculture are used.
Daily, 3:30 to 4:30. Professor Davis. Chemical Laboratory.
3. Soils and Fertilizers.—This course will treat each of the subjects
outlined by assigned lessons and laboratory experiments. Soils:
origin, formation, and distribution of soils, their chemical and physical
properties as related to fertility; classification of soils and their
adaptation for specific lines of farming; soil moisture; soil temperature;
tillage and management of soils. Fertilizers: plant food constituents;
their sources and relative importance; how plants feed;
the source of supply of fertilizer materials; character, composition,
and variation in unmixed fertilizer materials; home mixtures; manufactured
manure crops, cover crops and methods of using them; barn-yard
manure, value, and composition from different animals, solid and
liquid parts, influence of feed, age, and litter; management and use
of manures; combining with other fertilizers. Lime and its uses:
commercial forms of lime, relative values, cost, transportation, application,
frequency of liming, special reasons for applying lime.
Text-Book.—King's Physics of Agriculture.
Daily, 12:15 to 1:15. Professor Scott. Chemical Laboratory.
4. Horticulture.—This course will consider each of the following
subjects in the order named. Propagation of plants: propagation
by seeds, cuttings, layerage, budding and grafting; principles of pruning.
Practical pomology: a study of the principles of fruit growing;
selection of soils and subsoils; selection of a site for an orchard;
selection of varieties; ordering trees; treatment of trees before planting;
laying out orchards; setting trees; fertilization; intercropping
in orchards; systems of orchard management; the object and value
of cover crops; how to pick, pack, and market fruit; fruit packages;
storage of fruits. Small fruits: grapes, raspberries, blackberries, dewberries,
currants, gooseberries, and strawberries. Soils: preparation
of the land; propagation; planting; cultivation; fertilization; pruning;
spraying; picking and marketing; varieties; insect enemies and
fungous diseases. Market gardening: selection of location; relative
importance of character of soil, labor, transportation, and market
problems; soils best adapted for market gardening; principles of
management of soils for the production of vegetable crops; practical
principles and suggestions upon the growing and marketing of the
principal vegetable crops, including peas, beans, beets, cabbage, cauliflower,
celery, carrots, parsnips, onions, spinach, lettuce, sweet corn,
tomatoes, rhubarb, asparagus.
Text-Book.—Waugh's Apple Orchard.
Daily, from 2:30 to 3:30. Professor Davis. Chemical Laboratory.
5. Insects and Diseases.—Under the general subject of insects the
following topics will be taken up: the general structures, life histories
and habits of insects; the principal injurious types together with
methods of treatment and prevention; microscopic study of forms
and structures of economic insects; the best methods of combating
them; use of spray materials and machinery; spraying for injurious
insects; solutions for spraying. Under the diseases of plants the
following topics will be considered: how the lower forms of plants
develop and become distributed; fungous diseases; principles of prevention
and control of forms injurious to fruit and vegetables; spraying.
Daily, 10:30 to 11:30. Professor Davis. Chemical Laboratory.
6. Animal Husbandry.—(Offered in 1914.)
7. Animal Nutrition and Crop Production.—(Offered in 1914.)
8. Elementary Agriculture.—This course is primarily intended for
those who have not previously made a study of the subject and
should be taken by those expecting to stand State examinations.
The following topics will be treated: soils and their formation; principles
of plant growth; the offices of the plant; plants and water; the
moisture in the soil; what tillage is, what it does, and how it is performed;
humus and its uses; cover crops and their uses; enriching the
soil; permanent fertility; propagation of plants; purity of seed, vitality,
cuttings, layerings, grafting, budding; stock of the farm; poultry,
Text-Book.—Duggar's Agriculture for Southern Schools.
Daily, 12:15 to 1:15. Professor Scott. Chemical Laboratory.
9. Nature Study and School Gardens.—This course will be practical
and helpful, especially to teachers of primary and intermediate grades.
The subjects will be closely correlated, many of the nature lessons
being based upon school garden work. Much time will be devoted to
the successful management of school gardens. A model school garden
will be conducted upon the University grounds. Other nature
lessons will deal with wild flowers, grains, grasses, birds, insects,
minerals, and other objects suitable for the school room.
Daily, 8:30 to 9:30. Professor Davis and Miss Taylor. Cabell
Hall, Room 8.
Note.—An incidental fee of one dollar will be charged to cover
garden expenses.
Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate—Agriculture,
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; Special High School Certificate—Agriculture,
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8; Professional Grammar Grades Certificate—
Agriculture, 1, 8, and 9; Professional Primary Grades Certificate—
Agriculture, 1, 8, and 9.
| University of Virginia record March, 1913 | |