SUNY at Cobleskill - Voice Yearbook (Cobleskill, NY)

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.-4f Department FA KM MECHANICS kitchen, barn ami poultry house utensils still demand their share of attention when leaks develop in the seams or elsewhere. Institute hoys are familiar with blow to relies and solder coppers and con solder most any metal found on ihc farm except aluminum. 'I FARM MANAGEMENT Farm Management means a certain amount of bookwork, much balancing of books, and examination of grafs and charts. A study of past prices and trends, helps boys who are to be farmers to look ahead. FORGING Although forging is becoming a lost art, formers still (iud it a much needed service in connection with their farm machines. Institute students learn to bend, shape, and weld iron and steel and can handle the average repair jobs on farm machines. SURVEYING Laying out fields for strip cropping, leveling for tih drainage and diversion ditches, mapping farms and establishing farm lines are the types of jobs done by the Agricultural engineers. Institute hoys are trained to use the common surveying and leveling instruments and are prepared to solve problems of this soil on their own farms. 1 I 2 :

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Agricultural DAIRY TESTING LABORATORY Students taking Dairy Industry arc taught the common dairy tests for fat, sediment, solids, and acidity. Those who desire may lake the State Tester's license examination. POULTRY One oT tin? important jobs that the successful poultryman has to do each year is to replace all or part of his laying flock. He usually does this by rearing chicks each spring. A good brooder is a requisite to good rearing. Each year before the arrival of the baby chicks the brooders should be overhauled and cleaned so that they are in proper working order. The students in the accompanying picture arc overhauling the Institute’s brooders both coal and electric preparatory to rearing chicks. This is one phase in their training as poultrymen. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY I lie students receive instruc tion in the animal nutrition, selection, grooming and care of calves, principles of breeding, herd improvement, management of the dairy herd, also in tin care and management of sheep, swine, horses, and beef cattle and the marketing of milk and livestock. VEGETABLE GARDENING AND ELORICl LTURE Students in the classes of Vegetable Gardening and Floriculture have the opportunity in the greenhouse to produce plants from seeds and cuttings. Soil preparation, transplanting, and repotting is shown in this picture. Tomato, pepper and cabbage plants arc sold to the local trade. Flowers are grown to be used in the buildings on the campus for various school functions. — 21-

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