Catalog of Howard Payne College, 1960-1961 Page: 94
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BULLETIN OF HOWARD PAYNE COLLEGE
Agriculture
Assistant Professor B. Eubank
Instructor Davis, Head of Department
A student may minor in agriculture at Howard Payne College,
may take one or more agriculture courses as electives, or may work
toward a major in agriculture by taking two years of training here
and transferring to a senior agriculture school for completion of his
Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture.
A co-operative degree program between Texas A&M College
School of Agriculture and Howard Payne College is available to
interested students. Under this program, students earn a degree in
liberal arts from Howard Payne, and a bachelor of science degree
in agriculture from Texas A&M. Three years of study at Howard
Payne and two years of study at Texas A&M are required.
As a field laboratory to supplement the instructional program
and to aid students to pay their school expenses, the department
operates a 500 acre farm, 155 acres of which is irrigated. Beef cattle
and swine are grazed and fattened with the crops grown on the
farm.
The agriculture department works in full cooperation with
other agriculture agency programs and with farmers and ranchers
in this area. All agriculture courses except Agriculture 104 meet 2
hours per week for lecture and 2 hours per week for laboratory.
Agriculture 104 meets for there hours per week for lecture with no
laboratory.
AGRICULTURE 101. AGRONOMY. The fundamentals of crop production
including the classification and distribution of farm crops,
the importance of good varieties and good seed, crop improvement,
preparation of the seed bed, commercial fertilizers, manures and
lime, seeding practices, crop tillage, harvesting, meadow and pasture
management, weeds, crop rotation, diseases and insect enemies.
Prerequisite: None. Three semester hours.
AGRICULTURE 102. ANIMAL HUSBANDRY. An introductory survey
course stressing the importance of livestock and livestock farming.
General factors influencing efficiency in feeding, market value,
breeding, health, and adaptability of various species to geographical
and climatic regions are emphasized.
Prerequisite: None. Three semester hours.94
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