Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . has met the requirements for admission to theschool. No certificate or diploma will be given for thecourse. A more detailed description of this coursewill be found on page 55. Four-Year Course—This course will includethe care, breeding, and feeding of horses, cattle, hogs,and sheep; the raising and care of poultry; dairying;gardening; greenhouse work; and the growing, fertiliz-ing, and rotation of field crops. Not less than half ofeach working day during the first three years of thecour
Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year .. . has met the requirements for admission to theschool. No certificate or diploma will be given for thecourse. A more detailed description of this coursewill be found on page 55. Four-Year Course—This course will includethe care, breeding, and feeding of horses, cattle, hogs,and sheep; the raising and care of poultry; dairying;gardening; greenhouse work; and the growing, fertiliz-ing, and rotation of field crops. Not less than half ofeach working day during the first three years of thecourse is devoted to field practice, which is dividedamong the different departments approximately asfollows, though the exact time spent in any one de-partment is determined to some extent by individualneeds: 54 AGRICULTURE 55 Horse barn, two months; poultry yard, one month; dairy, six months;creamery, one month; horticultural department, six months; farm, lourmonths; roads and grounds, four months. For all of this work exceptcreamery and poultry work, the student is paid from six to eight centsan FARMERS JUDGING CATTLE AT THE SCHOOL BARN During the Second year all students spend the three winter monthsin the Trade School, where they receive instruction in the elements ofblacksmithing, wheelwrighting, bricklaying, carpentry, tinsmithing, pipe-fitting, painting, harness repairing, and drafting, so that they may beable to do for themselves many of the small jobs which a farmer needsto have done. Students are not paid for this work. The four-month period between the close of the First year and thebeginning of the Second must be spent in some form of work in theAgricultural Department. During the corresponding four-month periodsbetween the Second and the Third and the Third and Senior years, thestudent must be engaged in work approved by the director of the depart-ment. Some credit in field practice will be allowed students who havetaken a work year in the Agricultural Depart
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