PLANT DISEASES.

FOURTH YEAR.

(Twenty weeks, 45 minutes daily.)

The aim of this course is to enable students to recognize and treat the more common plant diseases without the necessity of a long study as to their causes. A rather careful study should be made of the most destructive plant diseases caused by bacteria or fungi. Information should be given regarding the best methods of prevention or cure of these diseases, and practical application should be made on the school farm, garden, and orchard.

I. Damage caused by plant diseases.

II. Symptoms of diseases:

(a) Rot.

(b) Blight.

(c) Wilt.

(d) Scab.

(e) Mildew.

(f) Burn.

(g) Smut.

(h) Rust.

(i) Yellowing, whitening.

III. Prevention of diseases:

(a) Disinfecting seeds.

(6) Killing fungi by applications upon the plant.

(c) Cutting out infected part.

(d) Removal and destruction of diseased leaves, twigs, or fruit.

(e) Removal of plants upon which diseases develop.

(f) Prevention of wound infection.

(g) Selection of resistant varieties.

(h) Avoidance of diseased localities. (i) Practice of crop rotation.

VI. Diseases of special crops-Description and treatment: (a) Apple

VI. Diseases of special crops, etc.-Continued. (h) Grape-Continued.

3. Necrosis.

4. Wood rot. (i) Raspberry

1. Anthracnose.
2. Cane blight.
3. Yellows.

(j) Strawberry

1. Leaf spot.
2. Mildew.

(k) Bean and pea-
1. Pod spot.

2. Blight.
3. Mildew.

(7) Cabbage

1. Black rot.

2. Club root.

3. Mildew.

VI. Diseases of special crops, etc.---Continued.

(r) Wheat

1. Black stem rust.

2. Orange-leaf rust.

3. Stinking smut.

4. Loose smut.

(s) Oats

1. Black stem rust.

2. Crown rust.

3. Loose smut.

4. Mildew.

(t) Rye

1. Ergot.

2. Black stem rust.
3. Orange-leaf rust.
4. Smut.

5. Mildew.

(u) Sorghums—
1. Blight.

2. Kernel smut.
3. Head smut.

(v) Alfalfa

1. Wilt.

2. Rot.

3. Mildew.

4. Dodder.

(w) Cotton

1. Texas root rot.

2. Blight.

3. Boll rot.

(x) Trees and timber

1. Heart rot.

2. Sap-wood rot.

3. Root rot.

4. Mildew.

5. Rust.

6. Leaf curl.

RURAL ECONOMICS.

FOURTH YEAR.

(Twenty weeks, 40 minutes daily.)

A knowledge of the general principles of economics as applied to agriculture should be a part of the equipment of every farmer with respect not only to his duties as a farmer but also as a business man and a citizen. The work includes a study of the relations of farming

to other forms of productive work, of the relation of capital and labor and land as factors of production, of the investment of capital and labor and proper returns, of ownership and of systems of land rentals and tenure, and of systems of agricultural production. Special attention should be given to agricultural organizations, cooperative marketing, and buying. All this should be made as simple and practical as possible.

I. Definition and general statement.

II. Economic ways of getting a living:

(a) Primary industries

1. Farming and stock raising.

2. Mining.

3. Lumbering.

4. Hunting and fishing.

(b) Secondary industries

1. Manufacturing.

2. Transportation.

3. Storing.

4. Merchandising.

(c) Personal service-
1. Healing.

2. Teaching.
3. Inspiring.
4. Governing.

5. Amusing, etc.

III. Agriculture, the rural industry:

(a) The relation of the family and the school to the industry in the

country as compared with the city.

IV. Stages in development; modern agriculture:

(a) Hunting and fishing.

(b) Pastoral life.

(c) The communal village.

(d) Communal farming.

(e) Private ownership of land.

(f) The manor.

(g) Commercial agriculture.

(h) Our debt to English agriculture—

1. Jethro Tull.

2. "Turnip" Townsend.

3. English breeds of cattle.

(i) Agriculture in the colonies

1. Land tenure.

2. Slavery.

3. Indentured servants.

4. Rural life.