The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-10-31

found that the smaller children vii
become interested immediately and
will express a desire to know the work
themselves. Teachers are advised not
TO make the mistake Of asking the old
er boys in the schoolto take part in the
work but to allow them to drift 10 la
ter from their own curiosity. Teachers
will readily understand why this ad-
vice is gwen. The smaller children
who are quite curious to know things
and are not ashamed OF their curiosity
are the best subjects for receiving the
first instruction in the work.
This work being out side the school
hours there can be no objection raised
by any of the patrons that the time is
being wasted. On the other hand,
when the children report at home what
the teacher has been showing them, the
parents will become interested for the
reason that something practical has
been taught the children. Under these
circumstances the result is that the pa
irons ask the teacher why be can not
teach such useful things as this in the
school. This is exactly the invitation
the teacher has been waiting for and it
is an easy matter from uow on to
teach the fundamental principles of
agriculture during regular school hours.
lone of the most profitable Missouri
industries Is the raising of ginseng
SAID Prof. w. l.. Howard of the State
University, the other day as be showed
him a jar of ginseng root just received
from the south part Of the State for
the Worlds Fair. This gallon jar is
worth at least SIS. 1t was sent to the
University by A. E. Leavitt of Texas,
county. Mr.. Leavitt began the indus
try just as ! am advising other people
to begin it, in a small way He is a
merchant in a small town and has
some spare time. Some four or five
years ago he secured a few roots and
set them out IN his garden. low he
about an acre for which l am told be
has refused S50, 900. What Is done of
ginsengP Ninety-ive per cent goes to
China. The people there use it as a
cure-all. Its use is largely based upon
a superstitlous notion of its medicinal
value. It is used but little by the med.
ical profession Of this country and is
considered OF but little value. But the
average Missourian does not care for
this. He is satisfied to know that II
pays better than any other crop grown
in the state.
In the dry year of 1901 the Federal
government placed $1,000 in the hands
of the University OF Missouri for the
purpose Of constructing a pond for IT.
/, rlgating experiments. The money was
expended in damIng up a 'tdraw"
draining about fifteen acres. The lay
. of the land placed about ten acres
) within reach of the water thus secured.
inexpensive wooden troughs we're laid
. and furrow irrigation depended upon
The results OF the experiments since
, made are for The first time tabulated
They show hat even IN Missouri such
a system of irrigation is profitable. The
7 yield of small fruits was increased
from 30 per cent TO 81 per cent.
Last week for the first time in the
history OF the state a woman appeared
before the Supreme Court of Missouri
to argue a case. This woman was
Miss Gratia Edna woodslde of Salem,
Dent county, Missouri, a daughter of
Judge Woodslde of the Ninth judicial
circuit. This is not the first distinc-
ton for Miss Woodside. In 1899 she
captured a $50 scholarship in law at
the State University over a class OF
about fifty men. No other woman be-
fore or since has won this prize. The
following year Miss Wopdside CON-
F., pleted the law course at the University
cumlaude-a an honor won but by ont
other woman in the history OF the in
stItution.
The Teachers College of the Unlver.
. sitY Of Missouri is sending a man tC
+, almost every county in the state TO ad
i, dress the teachers,
Last Spring the State University