The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-03
Address by Assistant
Sec. of Agriculture
TO STATE FARMERS
Hon. w. VI. Hays, of Washington, ID.
G. Tells OF the Distinctive Features
OF Country Life. Education Be-
inc Included and Developed
Most Rapidly.

A large audience that was thor
oughlv Interested and greatly edited
heard in Puilen Hall at the a and
NJ. College last night an address on
BY Hon. w NJ. Hays. OF Washington,
ID. G, the Assistant Secretary OF Agri-
culture.
This was one of the events of the
North Carolina Farmers Convention
now in session here and the many
farmers present expressed themselNe9
as highly gratifed by the addFes ana
the facts concerning IN the
country Witch were presented. A
most entertaining feature OF the ad-
dress was tina throughout II there
were used stereopticon pictures in IL
Illustrating the matters 10 which ref
erence was made.
Mr.. Hays began by declaring that
educatioa # the kind seen in agri-
cultural colleges and high school Is
on the increase, and that there Is a
rising belief in a distinctive system
Of country life education for the one
fourth to one-third OF our population
which is permanently to reside on the
land; that we are beginning TO invent
and develop q country life educational
branch Of our school system.
The consolidated farm school Of a
large and rich prairie State was de-
scribed in this there being part and
part education and work on the farm
and home economics. all on a sys-
tenn to suit the new class OF work.
Alongside of the farm school will nat
urally follow the rural church, while
there would of necessity grow up CO.
operative industries which would still
further develop the pupils in the va
riouS lines which go to make up in
dustrial and agricultural work, the
home surroundings and development.
The agricultural high school was
likewise described, this a~rticulating
with the flrm school, on broader and
more extensive lines for pupils more
advanced, who on graduation may be-
come leaders and teachers in their
sections, their education in many
lines fitting them for such guidance
and leadership.
The next picture presented was that
Of the agricultural college where the
most advanced studies of the system
could be pursued, 1t being the idea
of the speaker that here was an artic-
ulated system that would, with all the
various raGiications of school life
found in the three, be Of the greatest
advantage in the development of a
system of education that would partic-
ularly suit agricultural States, the
head Of the system preparing for ser
vices in experiment stations, the school
room and the Department of Agri-
culture.
Mr.. Hays then reviewed the indus
trial and high school bill now in Con
gress, introduced by Senator Davis,
which provides a fund of ten cents
per capita of a states population for
the placing of such schools in Con
gressional districts, the passage OF
which would make possible the farm
school and the others to which he re
ferred. the bill providing for an ad
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The entire scheme. as outlined last
night was one which had in it the
purpose to broaden out our educa-
tional system at the bottom. to serve
as 4 wider basis alike for our indus
trial life and for higher education.