Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-01-25
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done for the farmers This statement won
great applause.

community III New Jersey AGRICULTURAL
matters should enter into all the funda-
mental principles Of education. In no
other way, be claimed, that the farming
| industry be made to meet the greatly in
creased demands Of the present and future
ages.
DR.. Bailey gave practical illustrations Of
the points of his argument. He showed
how agricultural matters should enter into
the teachings Of primary arithmetic. AFTER
child has learned to figure, = he said, and
begins to take up simple promblems, those
problems should be based on the amount Of
moisture required for crops, the feeding Of
animals, dairy subjects, cheese production
and the like. 2
| Manual training in farming communities,
he said, should be taught through garden
ing, grating and kindred subjects Geo
graphy should be taught by local applica-
tions to the farm, and so on through the
whole common school curriculum.
Said DR.. Bailey in summing up this por-
of instruction in the common schools in the
rural sections Of New Jersey would COM
pleteiy reyolutionize agriculture in the
state
| DR.. Bailey raped severely the modern
tendency to fads and fancies in the public
Schools He said: 1--WE are teaching too
,,,.rx +l,;,,<~s a,1 +o, b;<I, 4h;r,1c We
want less of cube root and the like, and
more of the three Rs
The speaker paid high tribute to the
work being done by the agricultural col
leges, but he claimed they were far be-
hind their opportunities. He said the west
was developing its agriculture more rapidly
than the east. The east, he stated, needed
to wake up.
Professor Edward R. tombstone, Of Vine
land, made ringing speech, the gist OF
which was that something along the line
suggested would be done at once, and that
it was upto the voters in farming communi-
ties TO see that better school boards were
chosen. Another delegate said: Too
many Of our school boards care for nothing
but to spend money. All they want is fine
school houses. and any old kind Of teacher
will do. The little district school of the
past, which turned out hundreds Of our best
citizens, is being neglected. We are CEN
tralizing our schools too much. New Jersey
will have better citizens and better farmers
when she gets her educational system back
again nearer to the people.
Still another delegate raped the Stokes
school law because he said it had taken the
government of the school districts out Of
the hands Of the people. This was a serious
mistake, he insisted, and the authority in
school masters should be restored 30 the
people. Many delegates applauded this
speech.
Several delegates endorsed the idea of
DIR. Bailey, and it seemed to be the pre-
vailing idea that farmers children are
taught too many things that wean them
away from the farm.
| When the election Of officers came up the
old managers were elected again. Those
reelected were: President, DR.. E. B. Voor-
hees, New Brunswick; vice president John
T. Cox, Readington; secretary, Franklin
Dye, Trenton; treasurer, Walter Heritage,
Swedesboro. These, with H. V. M. Dem
mis-, of Freehold, George E. DeCamp, of
Roseland, and John NJ. Lippincott Of
Moorestown, constituted the executive
committee.
DIR. F. B. Voorhees, was reelected state
chemist and DIR. John B. Smith, New
Brunswick, state entomologist-
A lot of resolutions were introduced.
One by Emor Roberts, of Moorestown, de-
clared for the repeal Of all the game laws.
| Mr.. Roberts said he took somewhat
different view of the game laws of the state
from the usual one. He differed from the
common law view shat all game birds and
animals were she property Of the state. It
was his view that such birds and game
were owned by the owners Of the land, who
should be allowed to protect their property
| from damage and destruction.
Another resolution provided for the APP
pointment by the president Of a committee
of the board to act with other organizations
| in the state in securing proper regulation
of automobile traffic in the state. By the
nroyisious of the resolution the committee
is authorized if necessary to draw up and
present to the legislature bill embodying
| its ideas in the matter.
| Still another resolution denounced the
tax law, which authorizes the lender to
exact from the borrower the taxes as well
as the interest on the sums loaned
A fourth resolution recommended that
instruction in the elements Of agriculture
be given in the schools Of the rural dis
+r;a4e and that the graduates If the STATE