Union Academy - Yearbook (Belleville, NY)

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.COURSE OF STUDY IN AGRICULTURE The following is the regular course with subjects as they occur in the respective years: ' FIRST QUARTER SECOND QUARTER THIRD QUARTER FOURTH QUARTER First Year English 51- English 5 Rhetoric 5 Rh6'f01'iC 5 Arithmetic 5 Arithmetic 5 Commercial Arithmetic 5 Q01'f1me1'013-1A1'ithmStiC 5 Physical Geography 5 Physical Geography 5 - Geology qsoilj 5 Geology 650115 5 Drawing 5 Drawing 5 Plans for Farm Buildings P121I1S f01'F21T1T1 B11i1di11gS Second Year ist Latin 5 1st Latin 5 1-st Latin 5 Ist Latin 5 . United States History 5 United States History 5'B0ta11y 5 Botany 5 , Algebra 5 Algebra 5 Zoology 5 Z0010gY 5 , Commercial Geography5 Commercial Geography 5 Entomology 5 Entomology 5 Third Year Dairy Husbandry 3 Dairy Husbandry 3 Civics 5 Civics 5 Horticulture 3 Horticulture 3 Plant Life 3 P1a11t.L1fe 3 Chemistry 5 Chemistry 5 Chemistry 5 Chem1f'f1'Y,5 . ' Soils and Fertilizers 3 Soils and Fertilizers 3 Econo'ics of Agricultureg Econo 105 0fAgf1C111tU1'e3 Fourth Year Animal Husbandry 3 Animal Husbandry 3 K 'Poultry Keeping 3 H POUUIY KeePiDg 3 ' Commercial Law 5 Commercial Law 5 Zootechny 2 Z00t?ChnY 2 t Physics 5 Physics 5 Physics 5 PhY?1CS 5 ' Agriculture 5 Agriculture 5 Agriculture 5 Agriculture 5 -f Numerals signify number of recitations a week.

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22 UNION ACADEMY 2. CThe special two year course. 3. 'l'The winter ten week course. tThe special courses are designed more particularly for older persons who may have only alimited amount of time for studyg but age will not debar any one from either ,of the courses. CHEMISTRY OF DAIRIYNG This course consists in general management of modern dairying, the methods of milk analysis, the bacteriology of milk, the use of separators, the methods of testing milk fmost emphasis being placed on the Babcock centrifugal testj, ripen- ing of cream, butter and cheese making. All the chemicals and allied changes which take place in the handling of milk and its manufacture into butter and cheese. Students receive practical training in the modern methods at the Belleville Dairymen's Association Factory. This is a new factory equipped throughout with modern apparatus for both butter and cheese making. In size it ranks among the iirst in the state. i ' Text-book used in this course is t'Chemistry of Dairyingn by Harry Snyder. Bulletins from the various experiment stations are read and discussed.

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24 UNION ACADEMY EQUIPMENT The school is provided With modern apparatus for teach- ing sciences, relief maps, anatomical aids, ine microscope with high power objectives, microscopic slides, extensive geological collection, and a special new series of machines. for the practical study of physics. A set of large photographs of excellent quality has recently been provided, illustrating classic subjects of art, literature, architecture and biography. LIBRARY KAND READING ROOM The library, containing 2,350 volumes has been recently catalogued according to the most approved methods, is open every school day, attended by the librarian. Students and people of the town have direct access to the books and have free the privilege of drawing any volume for two weeks at a time. The working reference library is in the chapel. This library consists of about 150 books. It is supplied from the large library with books bearing most directly upon the class work, while it contains permanently such works of reference as are in constant use. Some of these are: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, The American Encyclopaedia, The Young Folks' Encyclopaedia, Alden's Cyclopaedia of Universal Literature, Worcester's Unabridged Dictionary, Lippincott's Gazetteer, and Diction- ary of Biography, Skeats's Etymological Dictionary, Grove's Dictionary of Music, Roget's Thesaurus, Smith's Synonyms, Labberton's Historical Atlas, Peck's Classical Dictionary, and Morely's English Writers. LITERARY SOCIETIES The ladies' Sibylline Society and the gentlemen's Glad- stone Debating Club are literary organizations which hold their meetings bi-weekly in Memorial Hall.