El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-16
FARM SCHOOL
FOR POOR BOYS
Custom Of Teaching a Boy
Trade To Be Revived.
DR.. KRAUSKOPF'S SCHOOL
Secretary Wilson's Visit To the In
stltution-A Noble Enterprise
For the Benefit Of Poor Boys.

tut ShO DCuCllC vi FOOt oOyS'
The following article, from the Dali
las News of Sunday, is in line with an
editorial published in the HERALD to-
day and will be read with great inter-
est by citizens of Ell Psso- who are
wondering what Is to become of poor
boys.
There seems to be fast spreading
sentiment in Dallas that the boys-and
particularly the poor boys-of this city
practical and useful than those at pres
ent laid down. 1t has been declared
many times by prominent citizens, Mr..
Philip Sanger among the number, that
the young man educated according to
the system OF today was practically I'M
fitted for the discharge of any practical
duty in this life when he left school.
These gentlemen hold that the prob
lens of today, and especially the prob
lem OF earning even bare livelihood,
have grown and are still growing
sterner and sterner.
Last winter, it will be recalled, an
effort was made to establish sn indus
trial school here. This is a place
where boy Is taught to use his hands
as we'll as his head. He can be a good
mechanic or q good carpenter, accord
ing to his preference, and at the same
time the mental phase of his education
is by no means overlooked. This effort
failed, it is said, because.of lack of pub
lie interest.
1t is now probable that at some time
in the near future an effort will be
made to establish here farm
school" Farm schools are of recent
origin. AS the competition for an ex-
istence in the big cities of this country
grew more keen, men began to turn
more frequently toward the
sod stre,e Tss of its e sSs
most suitable place in which to
exercise the right to earn their meat
and bread. But even here it was
found that competition had been sharp
ened and that it was not the farmer
that owned the most land, but the one
that knew the most about farming that
reaped the greatest profit. Special
1t was found, was again
gan to spring up here and there over
the country. The pupils are taught
how to treat the soil, how to plant the |
seed and how to take care of the crop |
from the moment the seed has sprouted |
until the harvest is ready for market. |
They are taught to take care Of their |
tools and implements, and that the |
dumb brutes about the place need just |
IS much care and atsen tlon as
made to know practical and scien-
5ffic farming, and that in this
i'd vanced age these things are nearer
the same than ever before.
If suoh q school is established here |
It will be for the benefit of the poor |
boys of Dallas. They will be taught
how to farm properly and then told
that there Is q better opening for |
them in the country than in the city. |
That ia what is being done in Pennsyl-
vsnia. There is at Doylestown an |
known as the National |
Farm school. Rev. DR.. Jos. Krsuskopf, |
it's president, il well known here, and |
several Dallas boys are being educated |
there, it is said. Recently the place |
was visited by Secretary of Agricul-
ture James Wilson. In it's report of |
the details of this visit the Philadel
phis Ledger has the following:
The features of the visit which ap-
peared to make the deepest impression
upon Secretary Wilson we're the in
'pection of the modern dairy plant and
The large barn and poultry Enclosures.
The new machinery for the manufac-
lure of butter was made the subject of
l brief lecture by the distinguished
visitor, VINO also gave interesting talks
Ind horses.'
It is also stated that the entire farm
consists OF 12O acres, all under a high
tate of cultivation. and all managed
or the benefit of poor boys.
Secretary Wilson returned to Phila-
lelphia from Doylestown that night,
md at banquet given in his honor,
aid some nice things about the insti-
ution. The Ledger prints the follow
ng report of his speech:
Secretary Wilson said 1t had not
'een so easy to get away from Wash
ngton at this time, but the National
farm School at Doylestown, in its
mission to do something for poor boys,
ad been a sufficient incentive to do so.
This school was one of the no.
lest enterprises known to mankind.
lie had come to see what was being
one. The administration required of
very department that it should be
oade useful to the people. President
interest was broad
r than an interest in merely the Ohio
armer. He was president of all the
eople in the United States. Half of
be people were interested in the pro-
ucts of the soil. AS the country had
rown its exports had come mostly
rom the field. The last two years had
hown exports of $1,000, 600, 600 worth
III hiOTe Gunu 1WO-UulTQS H6u COu6 =
rom the field. And yet whdh the de-
artment of agriculture required men
ersed in soil, physicists or animal
atb ologists, it was impossible to find
hem, despite the fact that there had {
cen state agricultural colleges for
cara. No wonder it occurred to {
men of Philadel to
sta blish q college where scientific
srming could be taught. He !
ad gone there today, and be
ad found that the National I