Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-12-31
WHAT OTHERS THINK.
The Following Reference the Marathon County Train
ing School for Teachers and the School Of Agriculture
and Domestic Economy, is taken from the
Milwaukee Sentinel of Thursday:

known as county schools for in
structiOn in agriculture and domes-
tic economy, and that state AID be
given to- these schools when organ
lied and established on IA basis 10 lie
approved 10y state authority. the
same gentlemen who had been ill.,
strumental in securing the establish
ment and Subsequent success of the
training school took the mat ter up
with the people OF the county. The
legislature enacted the law recon-
lnended in the report, and the Hon.
l.. d. Harvey, by request. laid the
matter before the county board.
Messrs. Kreutzer, Blanchard and La
mont began systematic campaign
TO create a sentiment for the school.
The county board, after thorough
investigation, determined to estab-
!, lish the county school of agriculture
and domestic economy, and provided
for the erection of y county school
building that would house both the
training school and the agricultural
school.
WORK ELEMENTARY.
The work of the Agricultural school
will be elementary. Without at
tempting TO go into details, the
course will be based on astudy of the
soil, of plant life. of animal life and of
the economics of agricultural and
manual training for the young men,
and a course in sewing. cooking and
the domestic arts, for the girls
Courses in horticulture and floricul-
ture and necessary work in language,
mathematics, history and literature
may be carried, if there is a demand
for them.
While. of course, it is hoped that
the final result of this work will be to
make farm life more attractive TO the
boys and girls and that it will edu-
cate them toward, not away from,
the farm. it is expected that such a
course will develop an intelligent in
terest in the activities incident TO ru-
raj life Neither is it claimed that
this school will make ''educa ted"
farmers. 1t is presumed that here
the young man will learn through in
struction in a short time some of the
things it took his father long wears
of hard work and bitter experiences
to discover. Here. too, will he taught
the possibilities OF the soil OF Mara
thon county, and here will be n place
J for the farmer to come for help and
J advice in matters which give him
trouble. With Il county school well
established. there il no reason why
every single farm in the county can
not be made IL subject OF special study
by those trained for he work-a thing
that is not at ali practical in an in
StitutiOn that has a whole state as a.
J field for experiments.
MEN BACK OF ENTERPRISE.
Joseph Buerger of the town
Wausau. Carl Nieman of the town of
, Hamburg. and John f. Lamont OF
the city of Wausau are. respectively.
president. treasurer and secretary of
the Agricultural school board, and
they, together with the board OF the
, County Training School for Teachers
and the chairman of the county
board, Chris. Franzen, constitute the
building committee.
Twelve thousand five hundred dol
lars have been appropriated, exclu-
sive Of the heating and equipment,
for building purposes. The plans are
nearing completion and the building
will be up and ready for use by the
first of August, next.
1t is estimated that $1,000 will he
required to maintain the Agricultural
school each year. ard $4,000 the
Training School for Teachers OF
which TIE state OF WisconsiB must
provide ne-half the sum actually ex-
pended in the maintenance of the two
schools.