Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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WISE-ACRES Vol.'VII February, 1923 • No. 1 Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa.—Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director Entered at Ambler P. O. as Second-Class Matter Under Act of March 3,1879. STAFF Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth C. Hall Asst. Editor, Margaret England Adv. Mgr., Florence Miller Asst. Adv. Mgr., M. Eloise Torrens Business Manager, Sarah B. Fogg One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH, YIELDING PLACE TO NEW” Another class has stepped forth from the School of Horticulture full of the spirit of achievement in its chosen work. Their chance for service has come. Let them keep that same enthusiasm in their work that they have displayed here at school and may the future have great things in store for them! Another class has entered, keen with the anticipation of what the next two years will reveal to them. WISE-ACRES extends a warm welcome to these new students. We, too, are beginning a new year, with a new staff, and we, also, are full of anticipation and enthusiasm. We shall devote a section of each issue to the Alumnae and we ask for their co-operation in submitting any articles or bits of news which would be of interest to them or their former classmates. Recent happenings at the school will be duly recorded and a bit of a humorous page may creep in if we are not too sober. We hope to increase the number of exchanges and make WISE-ACRES an active organ of the School of Iioriticulture. Finally, we shall aim to continue that standard of our predecessors in presenting articles on those subjects of interest, help, and enjoyment to all. 5

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I 1923 SCHOOL OF HORTICULTURE FOR WOMEN Ambler, Penna. INVITATION LECTURES BY MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL March 6th—What We Should Know About the Potato. By Raymond C. Dikeman, B. S., M. S., Cornell April 3rd—Unusual Glimpses of Italian Gardens. By Miss Emily Exley, Graduate School of Horticulture. April 17—An Egg a Day. By Raymond T. Kuhrt. May 1st—Marked Characteristics of Some of our Shrubs and Trees. By George B. Kaiser. June 5th—Insect Pests of the Garden and their Remedies. By Harry W. Schlehner, B. S., A. M., U. of P. Train leaves Reading Terminal 1.55 P. M., arriving Ambler 2.28. Trains returning leave Ambler 4.51 and 6.05 P. M. School Bus will meet trains. Automobiles from Philadelphia pass through Chestnut Hill to Bethlehem Pike to Butler Pike, .turn to right (N. E.) on Butler Pike, take first turn to right, one-quarter mile to school. T uesdays 3 P. M. Calendar of Short Courses Spring Course—April 3d to Jun 23d. ' Summer Course—July 31st to August 25th. Write for list of subjects and terms. Boarding and Day Students.

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MEET OUR FARM MANAGER! Raymond T. Kuhrt comes from Chautauqua County, New York, the home of grapes, small fruits, milk, cheese, and poultry. His school days were spent at a district school, after which he at tended Forestville Free Academy and High School, from which he graduated as President of the Class of 1912. From High School he entered the Training Class and taught one year in a country school. During this time Mr. Kuhrt had the opportunity of organizing and instilling community spirit into the district. Great sorrow was felt when he left to enter Cortland Normal. Just a word may be said of his home life. The Kuhrt farms at present, though fruit predominates, boast of a herd of fifteen Line-bred Holstein cattle and a herd of about forty pure-bred Duroc Jersey swine. His home borders a brook and as a small boy he might have been seen any day with a pole and line fishing in summer or with a string of traps trapping in winter, studying Nature's ways at first hand. His early experience came in dealing in pigeons, chickens and rabbits. This gave him the incentive to go deeper into the poultry field and he specialized at Cortland Normal in this phase of Animal Husbandry. After graduating from Normal, Mr. Kuhrt taught High School Agriculture at Ellington, Sherman and Forestville. While there he maintained a pen of White Leghorns as a side issue. Two years ago Mr. Kuhrt gave up teaching to devote more time to his poultry business. He has had a splendid selection of Barron strain White Leghorns at his home for several years, still maintans a flock of five hundred and is directing the management. He has incubating equipment with a capacity of three thousand eggs and has orders booked for five hatches for this season. Mr. Kuhrt comes to the School of Horticulture with practical experience in farm managing, care of animals, growing of general farm crops, and as a poultry specialist. The most hearty welcome to our midst is extended to Mr. Kuhrt. R C. D. 6