The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-20
Country Schools.


districts, many children who have been
kept employed on the farm throughout
the busy season will have an opportun-
ity to attend school. 1t is the duty of
parents to see that this opportunity is
not neglected. 1t is acknowledged on
all hands that the great need of the
agricultural community at the present
day is a higher and more general edu-
cation, and no chance of attaining this
should be suffered to pass unimproved.
Not only should all the children, there
fore, in every neighborhood attend
school whenever possible, but care
should be taken that nothing should be
done to prevent them from deriving the
greatest measure of benefit from their at
tendance. The selection of competent
teachers and the preservation of their
legitimate authority and influence are
essential to this end.
The school hours in the country are
generally somewhat longer than in
cities, yet in the latter many skillful
physicians advocate their curtailment.
Country school-houses, however, have
decided advantage over those in most
of our cities, in that they are, rs a rule,
better ventilated and less crowded.
Moreover, the open fields and unpol-
luted air afford abundant opportunities
for healthy exercise, denied to those
whose lot has been cast .amid bricks
and mortar. 1t is important, however
that this exercise should not take the
shape of imposed chores after school
hours. If parents only reflected on
their own Juvenile days and on the dis
content and repugnance to which such
extra duties give rise in their own
breasts, there would be much less OF
this pernicious practice. Nothing tends
more to make children dislike school
and neglect its advantages than the
consciousness during their attendance
at it that the end of school means the
beginning of labor.
It is this work, work, work, from the
gray of the morning until often after
cleaning that disgusts the boys, and
girls, too, with farming life, and sends
them, on the first opportunity, throng-
ing to the cities, where their days
labor, however hard, generally closes
in time to allow them, before bedtime
a few hours of rest or recreation.
Grown-up people can appreciate the
advantages of constant tOil-thOugE
among them it is far too common in
the country-but children can only sec
its hardships, and with their own un.
timely experience of these, and the
toilsome existence of their elders con.
stantly before them, what wonder is il
that they rebel against so unattractive
a career, and quit farming SO soon as
ever they can, or, if obliged to remain,
sink hopelessly into the ancestral rul
and plod on without a spark of life OF
ambition? We mention the following
subjects as well worthy the farmer ;
consideration:
l. Employ teachers who are capable
of teaching and who love to teach and
pay them for their work.
2. The daily sessions, morning and
afternoon, should not be longer than iiv
hours together.
8. Impose only light work, if any,
upon children after school hours and
permit them, in all innocent ways and
as far as possible, to enjoy themselves
in accordance with their own desires
without any parental interference what.
OVERHEARD NeU Yorker.
Clean and put under shelter every
tool and implement. Clear off stones
and stumps and repair fences. Paint
ing can be done cheaper now than al
any other time, and as there are no in
sects nor dust to spoil it before it gets
dry, it can also be done great dea
better. Cleanliness everywhere abou
the farm is especially necessary at thi
season. Every sort of rubbish furnishe.
a hiding place for some pest. Weeds
bark and chips harbor grubs AM
beetles; chinch bugs infest straw, stub
and corn fodder; the spores of the pc
tato disease lurk in potato tops. Bur
everything of this sort at once. Loo
after cellars and clean and whitewas
them thoroughly. AS the fallen leave
begin to litter the ground gather the1
in as large quantities as possible. B
using them as bedding for cattle or q
coverings for Enclosures where animal
are confined during the winter they wi
absorb the liquid manure and max
excellent plant food. The older til
leaves the greater amount of miner;
riches they contain.-M. Y. Herald.
Mr.. Charles A. Dana, of the Ne
York Sun, has great chicken factor
on an island outside of New York, whel
he annually raises choice lots of fow
for thieves to carry off. The late
depreciation was few nights sine
when his whole premium stock of birt
! was escorted away by some fine fellow
of fine tastes, who came and went in
boat.
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