Thursday, May 2, 1907.
THE PROGRESSIVE PARMER.
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AN ew Wtxy to Awaken Interest in Agii-
cultural Education.
Professors Stevens and .Connor Make a Tour of Wake County Lecturing
to the Public Schools on Agriculture State Fair Offers a Prize
for Best Exhibit of Agricultural Teaching.
Something of an innovation in the
methods of agricultural education has
been made by the Agricultural and
Mechanical College in the sending
of Professors Stevens and Conner
throughout Wake County to meet the
people of the county for the purpose
of explaining to them the meaning,
breadth and scope of agricultural
education.
These men traveled in a buggy,
visiting the schools of the county,
Professor Conner going through the
a better stand than that raised by
their fathers.
Announcement was also made by
the lecturers of the offer by the State
Fair of a prize of $25 for the best
exhibit of methods of teaching agri
culture in the schools.
Teaching Required in All Public
Schools.
It is sometimes said that the par
ents oppose the introduction of a new
subject in the school, and particu-
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AGRICULTURAL CLA.S8 AND TEA.CHER OP OLIVE'S CHAPEL SCHOOL,
WAKE COUNTY, N. C. -
The teacher is Mr. A. T- Holleman and the pupilB are Hubert Williams, Ernest Mann,
vernon we'cc, ttaipn. urancn, waneruuve, uaa uuve, luinei upcnurci-, reari uooa
win. This is only half of the class, the 1 rger boys having already left school to
work in the fields.
northern half of the county and Dr.
Stevens - through the southern half.
Three schools were visited each day:
one in the morning, one soon after
dinner, and one at night.
Kind of Education the People Wanted
In every instance, the coming of
these lecturers had been well adver
tised by the teacher and a most
hearty welcome was accorded them
everywhere they went. In many in
stances the school exercises were sus
pended and half of the day made
a picnic occasion, and the people of
the community, pupils, mothers and
fathers, and everyone were in attend
ance. '
To the friends of agricultural edu
cation the great interest manifested
by all was very gratifying, and the
speakers were encouraged by com
ments of their lister 2rs to the effect
that this kind of education was the
kind desired by country people. The
whole atmosphere of every meeting
seemed to be full of sympathy for the
teaching of agriculture in the
schools.
Lectures Had a Practical Bearing on
Farming.
What this agricultural teaching
should consist of and how it should
be taught was explained by the speak
ers and the practical nature of such
teaching was made apparent. One
point dwelt upon in each lecture was
the value of testing seed corn, as was
recently described in the columns of
The Progressive Farmer. The talk
upon this subject at this time of the
year, just corn-planting time, was es
pecially to the point, and in nearly
every school pupils agreed to make
tests this year at home, to see If they
could not by using better seed obtain
ed in the methods described by the
lectures, secure a corn crop having
larly that they sometimes oppose and
even ridicule the teaching of agricul
ture In the schools. The experience
of these two lecturers on these trips
makes it unquestionably certain that
if the real nature of agricultural
teaching be explained to the farmers
of any community, agriculture in the
schools will then receive in that com
munity- a most hearty welcome.
It is only to be regretted that it
is not possible to have someone visit
every school of the State and thus
meet the people of each community
and explain to them the value of
such agricultural teaching.
Agriculture is at present taught in
many of the rural schools of North
Carolina. It is required by law to
be taught in all of the rural -schools
and it should be taught in all of
them.
New Use for the Road Drag.
Messrs. Editors: The drag is as
necessary from an agricultural stand
point as a harrow or roller. Run i
over a field just once, and the mos
skeptical are convinced that no farm
implement will fill up the holes, leve
the land, and crush or mash down
more clods than this inexpensive con
trivance. H. H. WILLIAMSON.
Rockingham Co., N. C.
Unless the matter has been force
fully called to the attention of the
small dairyman, he has very little
Idea of the outward appearance of
what a good dairy animal should be
Most farmers like large, slick well-
rounded animals in keeping with the
appearance of the family driving
horse, while in fact all surplus flesh
and tendency to lay on fat is objec
tionable, for in just so much is she
lacking as a; dairy cow.- J. C. Ken
dall. ' 1 '
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THE STATE HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
WILL HOLD ITS, SEMI-ANNUAL
FAIR AT
NEW BERN,
NORTH CAROLINA
Under the auspices of the New Bern Chamber of Commerce, on Tuesday
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