Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-18


tons per acre, and he will cut the same
land three times more this season.
This will swell the aggregate 20 twelve
tons of hay per acre, from one acre in
one year, and hay, too. that horses,
cattle and sheep devour with avidity,
leaving any green feed for il, and on
which alone, hogs will keep in good
stock condition. OF course this is not
an average yield, the land was excep-
tionally adapted TO alfalfa, and had
been in barley for series
of wears. This barley had been
"hogged OFF, and all the straw and
| manure plowed under. The alfalfa
was sown just before the floods of
1884 and seemed but a field of weeds,
| and indeed the first two cuttings were
mostly weeds, but the alfalfa kept
coming in and thickening up until it
has reached its present condition.
choke out any and every species of
weeds and hold serene and undisputed
| possession of the soil. | have not
sold any hay for less than ten dollars
per ton after it was baled, and even
now, in the heighth of the season, il is
quoted In Los Angeles wholesale mar
ket at ten dollars per ton. Other
quotations are: Wheat, 60 TO 80 cts;
oats, Coo; barley, 60c TO zoe; corn, soc
to 60c; potatoes, 40c; butter, 25c; eggs,
lSc: honey, 3 1-2c To Sc; hogs, $3.50
TO $500.
Having fully regained my health
during my sojourn in the mountains
| am at home again and have been
teaching in an adjoining district for
two weeks. Our schools near the
| coast are carried on during the sum-
mer, as it is never hot, and the long
vacation occurs in winter, when rains
and mud may prevail.
Our teachers institute was held in
April, and as n matter of course,
was well attended. as it is held for
an entire school week and the salary
of all teachers goes on as though they
were in their schools. The design of
these institutes is not to give instruc-
ton in the matter of studies, but in
the best methods of imparting ins'ruc-
ton and training scholars.
They are held in our normal school
building, which is finely adapted to
such purposes.
At the last institute the teachers
were divided into three sections and
three classes we're in session simulta-
neously in the morning, while in the
afternoon the teachers met in a body
in the chapel for general exercises,
lectures, etc. Out of the two hundred
and eleven teachers In the county two
hundred and nine attended the insti-
tute.
OF these teachers sixty-five were
men and one hundred and fortysi
were women; as to grade, one hundred
and forty-six held first grade ceriifi-
Gates and sixty-five held second grade;
forty-one teachers were graduates of
the California Normal school and
twenty of other normal schools; fifty
eight of the teachers hold state life
diplomas and fifteen educational di-
plomas, good tor ten years.
The average monthly salary paid to
teachers in this county is 1885,; aver
ACE TO men $sS.43; to women, S74.59.
Lowest salary TO men $50; to
women $50. Highest salary TO
men $3.50; to women 1925.
Average length of time schools have
been taught this school year, sos
months; average length of time in
months the same teachers have taught
their schools. - months: total number
of children in county, 3l,115; total
number of school age, 1920; total
number enrolled in schools, 1865:
average number attending school, a.
COS.
With so attractive showing for
teachers the ranks are full, aud it is
only by being on hand in person and
watching for an opportunity that Il
situation as teacher can be secured.
Then. in. the standard for certifi-
Gates is high, so high that out of sixty
nine applicants in July last but fifteen
obtained second grade certificates and
only seven obtained the first grade.
Teaching in public schools attains
more nearly the rank of a professor here
than in any other state in the union
| am inclined to think. In the ranks
are TO be seen many head silvered
with gray, and among the women
many portiy matrons, wives and
mothers are found. Yet in San Fran
cisco the school authorities have de-
cided that the marriage of woman is
equivalent TO her resignation. Again,
position once secured in the San
Francisco schools is only lost through
some grave fault of its occupant.
When this custom shall obtain in al
our schools, and the clement of unrest
and uncertainty eliminated from a
teachers life, then indeed the ''good
time coming" will be not far distant.
During the season have often read
of the storms of rain and wind in the
central states, of cyclones and deyast.
aiing floods, of extreme heat and nu.
merous sunstrokes. We have vivid
recollection of such times in days past
Here we have only the uniform ebl
, and flow of the land and sea breeze,
as regular as the tides; warm, not hot
: DAYS. and cool nights tor refreshing
, slumber.
The mercury on my place has moi
I been above 81 degrees this season, and
] not up to 50 degrees more than three
or four times. but as have writer
3 in former letters the weather is much
D hotter and dryer farther inland, and