. County schools of agriculture and domestic economy in Wisconsin. dings are more or less con-nected, and are used entirely to demonstrate the practical phases ofthe instruction given. In them are found the carpenter shop,machine rooms, blacksmith shop, and laboratories for agronomy andhorticulture. The dairy is run on a commercial basis, the studentsdoing most of the work. This permits the learning of sanitarymethods of handling milk and other dairy products. The schoolmaintains a herd of 12 cows, which is used for exercises in live-stockjudging as well as for dairy production. The Dunn Count
. County schools of agriculture and domestic economy in Wisconsin. dings are more or less con-nected, and are used entirely to demonstrate the practical phases ofthe instruction given. In them are found the carpenter shop,machine rooms, blacksmith shop, and laboratories for agronomy andhorticulture. The dairy is run on a commercial basis, the studentsdoing most of the work. This permits the learning of sanitarymethods of handling milk and other dairy products. The schoolmaintains a herd of 12 cows, which is used for exercises in live-stockjudging as well as for dairy production. The Dunn County School was the first in the Wisconsin system tolay stress on the practical and extension side of the instruction faculty is made up of specialists, each one having charge of adepartment in the school and conducting instructional work amongthe farmers of the rural communities. The most notable feature ofthis extension work is that of building solid concrete silos (PI. II).The forms for erecting the silos are loaned to the farmers at a very [Bull. 242]. 11 small cost. Twenty-four silos of solid concrete were erected in variousparts of Dunn County during tlie year 1909 under the supervision ofthe school. Course of year. ^ ^^es of fai-m construction. Natural of farm animalsMathematics (A). Dairy ^es of farm animalsStock shop. Veterinary (B). FIRST QUARTER. Men and SECOND QUARTER. English. Mathematics. Bookkeeping, THIRD QUARTER. Library FOURTH QUARTER reading. Women. Cooking. Sewing. Food study. Household chemistry. Floriculture. Food study. Cooking. Sewing. Darning and patching. Food
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