SUNY at Cobleskill - Voice Yearbook (Cobleskill, NY)

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First row: Sharp, Van Valk(Mil ur»h, Ohlroik, f!ollins. Srroiul row: Kelly, liall. Diinran, Kaigor. oAgricultural Students In times of stress, a wide-awake school plans lor the future in addition to caring for its immediate problems. Institute students in agriculture, although fewer in number and younger in years, and the faculty in agriculture, although carrying heavy burdens and doing unusual tasks, arc making plans for a future when the boys will be returning to us from the armed services and from civil life, seeking technical training in agriculture and also that wider training that will better fir them to preserve the peace that is even now being won. 26

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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.

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