The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-07-22
Sup't Hoverstad, In Able Ad-
dress to Summer School
Outlines New Plans.
CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS FOR
TOWNSHIPS ARE COMING.
First Rural High School in State
To Be Established At Crooks
ton Experimental Farm.

Sup't ,Hoverstad of the Crooks
ton Experimental Farm this
morning addressed the teachers
Of the Beltrami Summer School
on "A System of Education and
a System Of Agriculture /" The
address was replete with perth
ent suggestions for the better
ment of our present system of
schooling children. Mr.. Hover
stad said in part:
"The system of education and
the system of agriculture in
northern Minnesota should be in
harmony. The industry support
ing the population Of a country
should influence the character of
the schools, and the schools
should have an influence on the
people and their work. Agricul-
ture is the one prominent indus.
try in northern Minnesota. At
present more system must be
introduced into farm practice.
The single crop system will dis
appear and the diversified will
take its place. The rotation of
crops will consist of grains,
grasses and cultivated crops.
The growing of grains alone will
bring two results. It will re.
duce the fertility of the soil and
it will encourage the noxous
weed. These two great objec-
tions will be overcome by the in
PRODUCTION of an intelligent rota-
ton. Owing to the limited mar
ket OF hay and the forage crops
it will be necessary to make the
farm a manufacturing establish
ment so the crude products can
be manufactured into beef, NUT.
ton, butter, cheese, eggs or other
animal products which the mar
ket is always willing to buy. The
starting point in this rotation is
the introduction of live stock.
The system of education to be
in harmony with country life in
northern Minnesota will neces.
state change in present plans.
The district school system has
served a very useful purpose, and
the country school and it's teach
ers are not given the credit they
are justly entitled to. The sys
tenn will necessitate a longer per.
lod of training but the period of
training need not necessarily be
separate and distinct from the
period OF performance. The two
should go hand in hand. The
first years of a child's life is the
character forming period. This
should largely be under the
guidance of the parents. Better
educational opportunities should
be given the children in their
homes. A home kindergarten
could be made a practical thing.
Parents should spend their time
now in teaching even if some of
the work now being done in the
homes would have to be done by
other agencies.
The consolidated rural high
school will sooner or later take
the place of the district school.
Here the pupils will have better
trained teachers, better build
ings. better appliances and in
many other ways be an improve
ment over the district system.
The consolidated school will be
an educational center for the
township where both young and
Did will receive educational adj
vantages.
The new departure will be the
'ural high school. The first of
'hese will be esta blished in con-
1ection with the Experiment
farm at Crookston. Though the
'fforts:of Senator A. D. Stephens
It Crookston, and Representative
). Bennett of Fosston funds were
provided for the erection of one
This school will be
ne next step succeeding the
ural school. In this school tie
Industrial and the intellectual
raining should go hand in hand.
very student should be re-
uired to work a part of the day
4 some useful employment. No