SUNY at Cobleskill - Voice Yearbook (Cobleskill, NY)

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Agricultural LIVESTOCK: The school herd has recently been put hack on the official Guernsey Herd Testing program. Students in Livestock with Herdsman Vernon Van Tassel, '41, and Mr. Col Iyer, who is teaching Dairy Herd Improvements in the absence of Mr. Hewes, are working out a breeding program for the school herd. FRUIT: Almost any day through the winter, boys could be found in the packing room grading and ring' packing fine McIntosh and Delicious apples. The addition of a lahoralory'sized cider mill and press and a freezer cabinet widens the scope of the work in fruit. The freezer is used by both Home Economics students and Agricultural stU' dents in practice packaging, freezing, and holding vegetables and meat. DAIRY INDUSTRY: The new equipment in the Dairy Industry laboratory: the pasteurizer, a walk-in cooler, a modern ice cream freezer with holding cabinet, a homogenizer, and a bottler, make work in dairy industry interesting to the boys. Of course, making and sampling a batch of ice cream doesn't detract much from the interest of Dairy Industry courses. 24

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Department The students in Dietitics and Institutional Management receive practical experience in planning menus, ordering food and preparing and serving meals in a well organized cafeteria, which caters to the entire student body. Practice in food cost control and accounting is gained through keeping the records of the cafeteria. Class work includes Organization and Administration, Purchasing, Equipment, Professional Relationships and other related subjects which train for food service positions.

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Department POULTRY: Mr. Rogers, Instructor in Poultry Husbandry, and students are developing a comprehensive program in building up a high producing strain of White Leghorns and New Hampshire Reds. Day old chicks and hatching eggs were secured from pedigreed flocks of both breeds and the boys are hatching and raising the chicks as an important part of their work in Poultry Husbandry. The acquisition of a mechanical poultry plucker lias added to the interest and value to work in Poultry. VEGETABLE GARDENING AND FARM CROPS: Although students in this department are unable to raise their crops to maturity, due to the limitations put on them by nature, they get plenty of practice in starting seeds and transplanting. Under Mr. Hodders leadership the hoys come to realize that the soil is the basis of all agriculture. FARM MECHANICS: Tuning up a tractor, repairing a wagon tongue or cutting threads on a pipe, illustrates the kind of work Mr. Curtis teaches in the Mechanics Department. Working with tools on real farm machinery is intensely interesting to most boys and apparently yields a peculiar satisfaction to them.