Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-01-24
DOES VERNON COUNTY NEED ONE !

DOES VERNON COUNTY NEED ONE
From the Milwaukee Free Press Of
recent date we clip the following:
I'VE have passed the experimental
stage" said Miss Emma Conley, Of
Wausau, teacher of domestic economy
in the Marathon School of Agriculture
and Domestic Economy, who has been
attending sessions of the Wisconsin
Cheesemakers' association, at the Re.
publican house yesterday. I'VE had
hard time of it during the first
year, and there were times when the
future of the school seemed dark. The
farmers did not take to the idea of pay
ing ont 81 a week board for their boys
to study the theory of farming or their
girls to learn how to become housekeeO-
ers The beneficial effects of the school,
after four years of hard work, are at
last being appreciated, and we have six
ty pupils, twenty-five boys and thirty
FIVE girls. The greater number of the
girls are residents of the cities, but
the boys are from the farms. The term
begins the first Monday in October and
ends the middle of May, without any
vacation excepting week during the
Christmas holidays This enables the
JOuuk llCh W II W hhp AdA Ia IL tAa~1N
for the busy season la addition to
teaching agriculture and manual train
ing, and domestic economy they take a
course in English grammar. arithmetic,
history, civics and library reading. We
do not admit child under i6 years Of
age, and they must have finished at the
district school or passed through the
eighth grade OF the CITY school
Oar school is one of the first of the
kind, believe that has been established
| in America, and our county authorities
are standing by us. Recently we ap-
piled TO the board Of supervisors for an
appropriation of $500 to enable us to
| build barn, the boys in the school to
do the work The supervisors conclnd-
ed that $500 was not enough and increas
ed the amount TO 81 60 They also have
Voluntarily taken up the subject OF
| building dormitory for us and will re-
port upon the plans early next week
Should they do this the students can
board themselves on the co operative
plap and being IN the main farmer boys
and girls, can reduce the costs of living
Materially and cut down that object
ionable IS per week.
We graduated eight pupils il the
spring and they are now engaged in
farming on improved methods. The eff
fects of the school is being shown on the
farm and in the kitchens where our
students have been. The boys from the
school are great stock fanciers as rule,
aud in many cases have induced their
fathers to invest in better class of cat
tie. Marathon county Is noted for its
fine cattle, but they are owned in herds
by city people. The boys are striving
to bring the stock OF the individual far
mer mp to the same high standard
Said one of the professors of the Uni
versity of California in a recsnt address
Il look with hope and confidence to the
day when every college graduate shall
have studied domestic science and by
giene, have acquired an elementary
knowledge of medicine, an advanced
knowledge of nursing the sick and car
ing for children; practical knowledge
therefore, of making clothes and cooking
foods. The frying pan has ruined more
digestions and tempers, killed more
children and grown-ups. worked more
separation and divorces than the Wo
mans Club, against which some in
weigh
Why should not Vernon have one of
these schools? We have plenty of boys
and girls no race suici1e" here-and
fine sturdy ones they are, too. With
our diversified farming interests, and
very profitable dairy products our chill
dren need proper training along these
lines. Why not have it as near home as
possible, thus saving expense and bring
icg it within reach of the greater mum
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