The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-08-15
HELPED ALL BOUND
a STORY OF ACTUAL ENPE RI
ENCE SHOWING BOW
An Agricultural Education Gave
Farm Wo,k New Meaning
and New Joy.

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and New Joy.
N. L Sherman, of Inghsn County
Michigan, hired 8 young man wh'
had graduated from an agriculture
college snd the results were so won
dsrtul and tar. reaching that We give
place here tc Mr.. Sherusn's story
which will be read with interest oJ
all. We need to be awakened to the
value OF an agricultural education
=hat it will accomplish for US ano
our children. Few OF US have an ad
souate conception OF the possibilities
along this line. But listen to MI
Shernan's story:
For two years had hired a man
who had graduated from cur agricultu'
raj college. Some Of my neighbors
called ne q fool for paying the wages
be densndod, but I never made q
better investment. His knowledge
was my lemon and I squeezed it. /
bought some books on farm chemis'
try, botany, surveying and horticul.
ture and took practical lessons of my
hired help in these studies.
My hired man honored his profes
sion. In a few weeks my bog, late
lY Indifferent to farm work, tagged at
bis heels and begged to help him.
Ny girl trsiled after US with her bot,
any. stood spaeohless one day
VIXEN she tolG me what Ruskin said
about the clouds. Her fingers were
in book that had the hired man Is
sane on the fly. leaf. looked Trough
1t and showed it to my wll-. She
said il such culture vas agricultural
she was GLAD her daughter was finding
it out.
THAT summer we began war on
insect pests by studying entomology.
Ny children went wild with enthusi
asm, collecting specimens under the
hired mans directions. Because he
vas watching for q certain moth,
VIII refused to go with some other
boys to the circus, though the year
before be came near running away
to join circus company. In bis
th,eat to do so he had quoted the
frt q lent uttersnce OF a neighbor, a
farmers life is a dogs life. Tue Life
Of my educated hired man, by It's
very contrast with dogs life had
saved my boy.
Before summer vas over our chill.
dren knew the birds, their ways and
haunts, from the bobollnk to the owl.
B; O,tober they had set themselves
TO protect quai!s and pactrioges. Az
ricultural science had taught them
thst most birds are farmers friends
In the second year OF our farm
education the children gave breathless
descriptions Of wild f fl,wers, ferns and
lovely dcg wood white with blossoms
They we're amazed at the besuty OF
forest tree flowers. sFathey, die you
know that the trees in the woods have
f,wers? Why cid you never tells Us:
See the lovely red snd green satin o.
the hickory buds, eyer 30 much pree
tier THAN tulips
IT wss ashamed to confess I hac
never considered the lilies or tht
trees, how they grow. My girl hsc
become 3 lover of trees. She made
me promise not to destroy her tairy
land, the wood. lot, by telling the ma
pies, as I had intended.
THE chemistry OF foods improved
our diet and lessened the work OF sht
kitchen. In connection with some sd
vice from the family physician, l sub
stitute6 the glass of milk for the nut
Of cider.
II had tried to forecast the wealth
er by the barometer, but concludes
that that Instrument was too mercur
sal to be reliable. But Mr.. Smttl
seemed to understand its Changes su!
6ciently to keep our hay Gus OF th
way Of long storms. His observation
and mine were another example OF th
difference between educated and un
educated eyes.
mo new buildings were put W
but under Mr.. Smiths directions
fixed over our barns and sheds unit
dryness, ventilation and ssconvenienc
for cleaning we're as good as in costl
structures. O,e result Of these I'm
orovements was that my boy easil
and willingly did the work about sta
bles and poultry yards, which he io1
merly shnked. Ia harvest time whel
work was pushing my wife an
daughter took pleasure in doing cho]
es. which had been impossible unde
old conditions.
my farm was saved: that wa
much. My boy was save; that wa
more. The farm had become more a.
trsctive than the circus or the city
After Mr.. Smith went sway the DO
worked on the farm and with b
books to prepare for q course in th
agricultural college, from which I
graduated three years later"
Does not MI. Sherman's remark:
BILE experience suggest the solution
that gexed problem. How to keep IL
how On the farm? I think it doe
Long live the farm college! May
receive the support which its impor
aucs merits.
nsn&han Says It's False.
In 8 letter received by Gen. vii
Tones Wednesday William Lanshs