Tlinrsday, April 24, 1913.]
THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER
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Classes in Agriculture and Domestic Science in the .lamestown Public High School, Guilford County.
Picking Peas on the School Farm.
By special act of the General Assembly of 1911 Guilford County was authorized to establish three Farm Life Schools. Under this
act the three public high schools of the county—Jamestown, Pleasant Garden, and Monticello—became Guilford’s Farm Life Schools,
and accordingly added courses in Agriculture and Domestic Science. The school plants were enlarged, the necessary equipments added,
and teachers with special training were secured to take charge of these new branches. Guilford’s plan Is working admirably, and the
results achieved have abundantly Justified her course. The new law now makes It possible for any countv meeting the requirements
of the act to establish County Farm Life Schools without having to vote a bond Issue.
AGRIi. AND DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
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now offered in the public high schools
in agriculture and in home economics
with a view to preparing them for
agricultural pursuits, home-making,
and home-keeping. The courses of
study are to be approved by the State
Superintendent.
(6) The teachers in the public high
school in connection with which such
departments are established, the
teacher of agriculture and the teach
er of domestic science shall const!
tute the faculty of the County High
Cchool.
(7) When the requirements of this
act are met by any county, the State
is to apportion out of “funds appro
priated for the maintenance of coun
ty farm life schools, by Chapter 84
of the Public School Laws of 1911,”
an amount not exceeding twenty-five
hundred dollars, equal to the amount
put up by the county for this pur
pose.
(8) “Nothing in this act shall be
construed to lessen the power and
authority of the principal of the high
school, but the instructors in the va
rious departments shall be consider
ed members of the faculty of which
the high school principal is head.”
(9) Teachers in such schools must
hold from the State Superintendent
the required certificates.
(10) Schools may receive students
on a tuition basis from other coun
ties.
(11) The teachers of agriculture
and domestic science shall do exten
sion work in the county in co-opera
tion with the State Department of
Agriculture, etc.; shall hold township
and district meetings for farmers and
farmers’ wives; and shall co-operate
in other helpful ways.
(12) No county shall use for the
purpose of this act “any part bf the
funds provided by the State and
county for the maintenance of pub
lic schools until after a six months’
school term shall have been provided
out of said funds in every district in
the county.”
There are several counties that can
meet the provisions of this law at
once, and they should do so without
delay. Guilford’s plan is working
beautifully at Jamestown, Monticel
lo, and Pleasant Garden, and it will
work in other counties. In the coun
try high schools that we are now
authorized and encouraged to estab
lish, the courses in agriculture, home
economics, and the other practical
arts will be found side by side with
the so-called traditional or college
preparatory subjects. We should dep
recate the notion of segregating the
students of the vocational subjects
absolutely from the students of the
humanities. There is no valid rea
son why these two classes of studies
should not be given in one and the
same school, provided proper equip
ment and teaching force are furnish
ed. The new law provides for this.
The student of agriculture and the
student of the classics ought each to
know and to understand the others,
and there is no better agency for
bringing about this mutual under
standing and for preventing social
misunderstanding than the modern
public high school that provides,
through properly differentiated cours
es of instruction, equal opportunity
for all the children of all the people.
Each type of student will certainly
contribute much toward the real edu
cation of the other if the two can
be brought together and trained in
the same school. The social and
civic benefits resulting therefrom
would simply be incalculable.
A NEW ENGINE THAT BURNS ANY
OIL.
A Coirection.
In my article on new school legis
lation which appeared in The State
Journal three weeks ago, it was stat
ed that provision had been made
whereby the counties could employ
supervisors for the rural elementarj'
schools. The statement got in by
mistake. The law providing for this
is a public local law and applies only
to Wake County.
Troy has voted $2D,000 of graded
school bonds by a majority of 135 to
26.
Perhaps the greatest step forward
in bringing the oil engine to a state
where it can be used at small expense
and with little trouble on the farm
has recently been made by the Stover
Engine Works of Freeport, Ill. This
concern has perfected an engine that
will burn any oil. It starts on crude
oil without the aid of any electrical
applicances whatever. The Stover
people are now making a line of these
engines, and expect to place them on
the market at once.
The new engine is designed and
built as an oil engine—not as a con
verted gasoline engine. Its construc
tion differs radically from that of the
gasoline engine. It has no dry cells,
spark coil or electrical ignition. The
elimination of these features, it is
claimed by the makers, does away
with ninety per cent of the troubles
of the gasoline engine as used on the
farm.
The system of ignition is charac
teristic of the simplicity of the new
oil engine. The cylinder head is not
water-jacketed, as is the case with
the gasoline engine. Into this cylin
der is fastened a bulb, made in the
shape of a ball outside the head, with
a rod casting, shaped like a pipe, that
projects inside. A torch fastened un
der this ball is used to heat the ball
for starting. When the engine is
started the torch is extinguished.
The heat of the engine then keeps
the extension hot as long as the en
gine is in operation, and this auto
matically supplies perfect ignition.
This crude oil engine, the makers
declare, is built to stand the hardest
sort of farm work, and performs at a
lower operating cost than that of any
other engine ever built. It is less ex
pensive in initial cost, to, than the
gasoline engine now in use. It has
only one mechanical operating part,
no valves to get out of order or to be
reground, can’t get out of time and
all parts are interchangeable.
PROF. WRIGHT BERE.4VED.
The large number of friends of
Prof, and Mrs. C. C. Wright in all
parts of the State will regret to learn
of the death of their daughter Dor
othy, which occurred at Hunting
Creek last Thursday. Miss Wright
was just nineteen years of age and
was a very bright and promising stu
dent, being a member of the Senior
Class of the Wilkes County High
School.
WAKE COUNTY PARAIERS ORGAN
IZE WAREHOUSE.
The Wake County Farmers’ Union
has taken a determined stand in re
gard to the building of a large coun
ty warehouse. A charter has been re
ceived and the organization of the
North State Warehouse Company has
been effected. It is the intention of
the directors to go to work imme
diately and get ready for business the
coming fall.
TOBACCO MEETING CALLED.
The State officials of the Kentucky
Farmers’ Union have called a meet
ing at Louisville, Ky., Wednesday,
May 7 at 10 o’clock a. m., of tobacco
growers who are interested in better
marketing facilities. This meeting
will have in mind the organization of
all tobacco growers under one selling
system.
Watch the date on your label.
CALL FOR HELP.
With the approval of the County
Union, the officers of Bailey Hack Lo
cal Union, No. 227 6, asks for help
from other locals who are disposed
to contribute for the relief of Bro. J.
T. Evans and others, who lost by fire
which recently destroyed Brother
Evans’ gin house and a quantity of
cotton. Loss estimated at $3,000.
Contributions should be sent to A. J.
Parrish, President. Winfall, N. C.
One feature of the recent school
contests at Fayetteville was an old-
time spelling bee, which added great
ly to the interest of the occasion.
Miss Beulah Blake, of Stedman, won.
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