. County schools of agriculture and domestic economy in Wisconsin. f cement silos,watering troughs, and similar all kinds of dairy in the selecting of farm drainage farm seeds for cattle for soils. Recommend systems of rotation. MARATHON COUNTY SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Faculty: J. Frank Kadonsky, B. S., principal, agriculture (Uni-versity of Wisconsin); Emma Connley, domestic economy (Univer-sity of West Virginia); Ferdinand Schumacher, manual training(Northwestern College). The scho
. County schools of agriculture and domestic economy in Wisconsin. f cement silos,watering troughs, and similar all kinds of dairy in the selecting of farm drainage farm seeds for cattle for soils. Recommend systems of rotation. MARATHON COUNTY SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Faculty: J. Frank Kadonsky, B. S., principal, agriculture (Uni-versity of Wisconsin); Emma Connley, domestic economy (Univer-sity of West Virginia); Ferdinand Schumacher, manual training(Northwestern College). The school is located in the central part of the State, at Wausau,on the Wisconsin River, and was opened to students October 6, county was once a dense forest, but has now been transformedinto a fertile farming district. Health conditions are excellent. The main building is a three-story brick structure 42 by 95 basement floor contains a carpenter shop, a laboratory, and a [Bull. 242] U. S. Dept. of Agrr., Bui. 242, Office of Expt. Stations. Plate Fig. 2.—Marathon County Students Removing Stumps with Dynamite. 9 sewing room. On the second floor are located the assembly room,the kitchen (PI. I, fig. 1), a recitation room, and the office. The thirdfloor is used by the comity traming school for teachers. In additionto this building the school has an annex which contains a boiler room,a blacksmith shop, a creamery, and a greenhouse. A barn 30 by 40feet was built by the students and is used for the housing of farmanimals kept on the school farm. The school has a small farm of 7 acres, which is utilized fordemonstration work in the various phases of agriculture and horti-culture (PL I, fig. 2;. Extension work is being done in the form of organizing agriculturalclubs and conducting agricultural contests in the rural schools th ough-out the county. Besides the regular course of two years, the school has a shortcourse for more mature students. Agricultural Course. FIRS
Size: 1298px × 1924px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorunitedstatesofficeofe, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910
