The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-09

for having made possible the develop; ment of agricultural high schools and ssboo saS Aa5ama in n the sarns an agricultural high school in each Congressional District not only showed faith h shoppe in speece fos senr the first thus to devise such a splendid plan. When these schools have been properly equipped to teach agriculture girls and have been divorced from the local schools and their work broadened out for hundreds of farm students from Country axe vn fife. hnMsnS Many of of the students from these schools will teach number e they w n be shf aSe to vs fa more practical for boys and girls. more of whom are to be farmers than the sopass noW sted sysH on1 y yety fe
 The Department. of Agriculture is taking an interest in the consolidation of rural schools. and in providing more nor, laboratory methods of teaching agri- culture and Eoodi hSusskssRnbg ;s prae haHe ticable to teach the elements of these subjects in many rural schools, espe- cialfy where consolidation into districts pupils by team proves practicable! We are making investigation as to how much this hauling of pupils Is costing Ohio and elsewhere. Courses of study are being devised Text books and practice methods are being prepared turai colleges. and ere long 1t will be tenn of country fife education fin. rural schools agh unasS into graded schools. city high schools and State university joined together Tor , city schools seho in ali the other States. has been a pioneer. It found edueatlon in en- well developed, but was under the ne cessity of creating a new education in agriculture. By co-operation with all aided by the National Government and it's Department of Agriculture, a system of education in Alabama agriculture Is time the State can change her. educa- tional and fiscal policy to use this new machine for harvesting crops of farm sSs aSys peopo opH Es sf' na 'fa S more money for education. but these schools, like railroads. will very great
 dos PTSss n snd .eem osss as seK Knds pensable as do railways.
 The school at Athens is making beginning in. agricultural education.
  succeed in this line of instruction. The experiment farm at Athens is well To- cated and will prove splendidly adapted to experiments In farm management, in animal industry. in truit growing and l for giving instruction in agriculture. When the instruction in agriculture and | home economies at Athens has been de- veloped and several specialists have l been added to the faculty. the town and | the whole district will be proud of ths high school. The National Department | of Agriculture will be glad to supply 1t with many publications and assist in | other ways.
 'once the State realizes the, splendid l way in which a welldeveloped agricul- tural high school will help build up a system of farming which will greatly | increase the value of farm products, Athens and the. eight other towns at which these schools are located will have no trouble in securing suitable ap- | propriations for buildings. apparati and l teachers Those legislators who repre- sent these schools should study thIs kind of education that they may pro- mote it,"
 Professor Hays and MT. Smith have gone to ohio to inspect the soil survey work done in that State and to study the consolidated rural schools for which i that State Is famous.