Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1914 — SHORT COURSE FOR JASPER COUNTY [ARTICLE]

SHORT COURSE FOR JASPER COUNTY

Purdue Plan of Carrying Instruction Into All Parts of State . to Be Tried Here. There seems to be quite a good prospect of bringing one of the Purdue short courses to this- community for this winter. According to Mt. Coe, of the Rensselaer school agriculture department, under the auspices of which it is being given, things look very favorable for Rensselaer to secure one. Mr. Coe applied for a short course at Purdue and is now working, with the assistance of different Rensselaer men. to ascertain if there is enough interest and people to work for it, to enable the agriculture department to support the course in this community. Purdue usually puts ,on from 15 to 20 of these courses throughout the state each winter and with good benefit to the community and people attending. The short course is of three days’ duration and usually is divided into six different departments or classes, namely, horticulture (gardening and orcharding; crops (especially emphasizing corn judging); domestic science (cooking, sewing and household economics); poultry, dairying, and animal husbandry (draft horse, fat cattle and hog judging, etc.) Seven or eight Purdue instructors accompany the carload of apparatus and live stock brought froir Purdue for .the course and they are accountable for three full days of interesting instruction for all interested in the different phases of ag rkultural work. The short courses are usually paid for by 50c season tickets for the entire course. If it is though that there is interest enough- to bring a short course to Rensselaer for Jasper county, a Purdue man ijp charge will visit here to ascertain the conditions and if favorable will O. K. any application already made. According to those working for it, it is believed that a Purdue short course is assured for Rensselaer and Jasper county this coming winter.