The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-08

the Menomonie school, thus reaching not |
ty, but all the boys and girls in the
rural districts with some apriculturali
education. Then the one hundred could |
each go for couple of winters to the |
large agricultural high school and the
total result would be better. In the end |
the Minnesota plan promises to be |
much better, giving more education Of !
q better quality in rural and agricul- |
tural high schools at lower cost per
days attendance. The johnson bill
would be a good bill if the other could
not be passed. But one experiment at
time might be wise, leaving Wiscon-
sin to try the other..o
:, Chow will these bills affect the in
stitution at st. Anthony Park?''
Effect on State School.
every favorably; Only small part
needed can be done at university farm.
The city high schools of the state ac-
commodate $4,000 pupils, and will soon
have %, 900, and there ought to be pro-
vision for at least third as many in
agricultural high schools. There are
as many farmers i'll the state as city
people, and the st. Anthony Park insti-
Il,
course of study. to prepare for coun-
try life as the city schools offer to pre-
pare for city life.
The agricultural high school course
at university farm might be made to
provide for a thousand, but it would not
seem wise to center there several thou
sand: That will require school at
favorable points. The advantage to
the St. Anthony Park, school would be
that were it not compelled to care for
the continuous demand for more agri-
cultural high school work it could de-
velop it's agricultural college. Instead
of thirty students there ought to be a
few hundred in the college course. Ten
per cent of all the graduates from sew.
eral agricultural high schools coming
that institution to- do its share of pre-
parin agricultural scientists better.
The federal department and the state
j institutions devoted to agriculture are
growing so rapidly that they are not
able to find enough men. The United
States department is now seeking some
p of Minnesota s young men, as Mr.. Free.
man and Mr.. Knorr, and could use many
more like them suited to carry on
specific lines of agricultural research.
Consolidation the Main Point. -
"But really the main point is the
consolidation Of rural schools, and the
preparation of teachers and of the
4 pedagogics of agriculture suited tc
them. The school at St. Anthony Park
and Booker Washington Is school al
than any other two institutions to
solve the question of teaching indus
trial work to those Who are to farm, tt
work in city industries, and to keep ou
homes. Professor Davis land his as
sistants at Menomonie have done ;
splendid thing in demonstrating hov
the pedagogics wrought out at st. An
ther toward the farm to the four-roon
consolidated rural school. Such schoo
with it's ten acres of land, it's plats o
field crops grown in rotation to illus
trate soil management, its trees, fruits
vegetable and ornamental plantations
!, its principal trained to teach ag;icu]
ture, an assistant trained to-, teac
, woman's work, it's practical laborator
l of twenty or thirty square miles o
f the combined tutelag pc of parents an
. teachers-that is the important matte
n The agricultural high school can reac
s only moderate lumber with relativel
t very few keeping on to the collee
0 course.'' -
1. .'What are the prospects of the fra
s tional tax bill to provide money for til
z teaching of gariculture9" ,a~s. -.
j. > 1.-The Fractional Tax Bill. g
":The legislature is coming to reali,
tnis nssds asst ss4 the ct ps'
wrought out. by the, university at s
n Anthony Park, has brought forward
j. financial need quite as extraordinary
J. character as was the need for fun,
J. with which to build!a state capitol. TT
IT regents could not. adequately fnan
|; this newly devised system of education
o. but by means of a separate fraction
k mill tax, the legislature, with the f,
le Incorporation of all the farmers sta
L. organizations, can devote the procee
L. of a special state tax to this purpos
te This method Of raising funds for e
7e larging the equipment and maintenan
m of the work at st. Anthony Par
l. Crookston and other places, relieves t.
20 pressure in securing funds for the re
re stitutions. As it was possible to ere
Mt really splendid state capitol only"
IN a special tax, SO starting this tax h
=, made it possible to establish educate
~ ~ for country life on a plan and of
~ character comparable. with educate
K K for city life. Minnesota farms ought
a. produce 40 per cent more per acre TIL
10 10 they do now. This can be ,broug
20 10 about by education in agriculture. B
Ia instead of a school producing only O
yh or two graduates per county, this XII
If Of education must reach large nulnbe
~ Under this tax I pay about so cent f
as each 100 acres. Of my farm for agric1
tural schools and experiment station
t. AS business proposition it would p
to treble the amount. -
We "Do you enjoy Washington"
n, 81 enjoy my work, and hope my ia
II, lily will enjoy living there. But /:
ri very sorry to leave Minnesota. VIII
nd T am back here all these matters int
W, est me very much. -
ia The oldest lawsuit in North Carroll
ell is now being finally settled. It is tt
ur of the Eastern band of Cherokee
in, dians against w. H. Thomas and othe
lot involving a great many thousand &C