The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-03-15
AnricuIfurEsfs Should Demand Better
Educational Advantages.


seen number of good stopping places in my talk, but
| must first tell you something about those rapidhre
machine guns.
We have in this state lightest most easily oper
aed pattern although our model is yet far from per
feet 1t is found in our law for the uniting OF TWO Vi
more districts for high school purposes 1t is not SUI
fceny flexible for destructive work at short range anu
is not the most effective being too much OF the ola scat
ter-gun kind. universal joint is needed III us
anism To speak plainly we want an amendment tna'
will assist any number rural districts, conveniently
located to transport all pupils to common point anu
also provide eaching the fundamental principles OIL
agriculture in all grades above the fourth But there Is
a kind which has been recently gotten up by ouper
tendent /. D. Harvey of Wisconsin This machine Is
warranted shoot the missile of definite knowledge lo
the agricuturst" rapidly, more eHectlvey, ana
more economically than anything else yet DEVISED us
powers penetration cannot yet be estimated ana us
construction perfect should last for all time Inc
Dunn County School of Agriculture and Domestic Econo
my" is of this make the market All that thls
machine lacks is practice range in the form OF the most
rundown farm in the county (Though we may wen
question if county so wideawake and ready to seize
opportunities Dunn has shown herself to be- by oeng
first to derive benefit from this new law has farmers
who allow their to deterorate). say WORKOUT
farm because anyone who has knowledge OF the me-
chanca work of farming raise good on first
land but to do that on foul and Impoverished SOIL
requires technical knowledge And find through some
wears of experience with that never know that
a man knows how to do work I'll you see him do It,
AS to cost. there is nothing else as cheap yet pro
duced regardless of quality The building fully equipped
GENES within $4,000. Estimated running expense for
first year $4,000 The effectiveness can be estimated by
the ease with which it be brought within range OF
the enemy "The School Bulletin" students are
admitted without entrance examination In order to
pursue the work the regular they should have
common school education but the short course is In
tended for feel the need of that brief train
ing whether they have common school education or
not This matter of entrance examination is one thng
that lessons the effectiveness of the majority OF the
colleges shown by report in the Year Book OF the
Department Agriculture compared with table OF en-
rollmen previously mentioned. One which shows total
of $500 and only sxtyseven in the agricultural course
requires English, algebra plain geometry
government of the United States, physics, chemistry ad
vanced mathematics botany zoology and Latin or
Greek further requirements in English or French or
German This the hardest and shows fewest in the
agricultural course with exception and that also
has high barrier. And then of the easiest, in a
state the section called iterate in the census
report requires preparation English grammar arith-
netic geography and United States history and has
enrolled in the agricultural 500 out of possible
$50 To there is something suggestive in these hg-
ures as | know capable young men who have given up
the idea of attending college because of these
requirements for entrance.
John Gould has this to say the subject 81 am
much interested in the county school of agriculture
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