The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-27

and girls is the school to which they might go for instruction in their line of work It is either so far away that they cannot easily attend, or the courses of study so high that they could not be ad
 mitted without a rigid examination, which they either could not pass, or what amounts to the same thing, think they could not. And then if they did enter, the time of attendance in the reg
 ular college course is too long for the means of the average farm boy or girl.
 Because of these facts and because the system would reach more farmers boys and girls, I advocate the establishment of a system of schools, commencing with few at first and increasing i'll number and extent as experience will demonstrate the efficiency of, to which the farmers boys and girls may go and learn how to make more cotton and corn to the acre; learn how to profitably grow and maintain live stock, and learn how to cook and keep in a systematic manner the affairs of the household. A school in which they may learn to make butter and cheese and to do the hun dreds of other things in a practical way which can be taught in school of this kind. I do not mean college where the curriculum is so high that it would take good sized college professor to enter one of the lower classes, nor do l mean hiah school which is trying to excel the college in exploitation of its course of training. But I do mean a school which will accept boy or girl, no matter how little text book know ledge they may have, and put them to studying for themselves the real prob- lems of farm life; studying how to make farm life happier, better and more pro- fitable than it now is.
 It is just as easy for girl in school to , learn the blending of colors for the cell ing and walls of her room, to know how to arrange the furniture, to keep stock of household necessities, aud under stand the laws of sanitation, as 1t is to let time fritter away for period of three or four years at a cost of twenty bales of cotton, teaching her to play four pieces of music on the piano which she is sure to forget the first year after leav- ing school. It is all right, of course, for her to learn how to play on the piano, but if she is taught to pail the COW at the same time, take my word for it, she will play the piano with as much grace and more vigor after she IS grown. am n favor of sending these children to training scools where they will be educated to love the farm instead of hating it; where they will be taught to stay on the farm instead of being taught to get away from it. I am in favor of establishing schools, such as farmer expressed it not long ago, where "the feed will be put down low enough for the child to get it.'
 We must also understand the eco- homie value of cheap production rather than clinging to the idea that we must hold what we have produced at high cost until we get large profit on that cost. If we can learn to grow bale of cotton on every acre of ground we culti- vate, with about the same work we now spend on it, for less than the half bale we get, we will then have solved the most important problem which we must learn. Many of the foreign nations can produce cotton about as good as ours, but the cost of production so far has been their greatest barrier. It ap- pears that about twelve cents pound is the limit in cheapness for their produc- tion. It is therefore obvious to us that if we make cotton at eight cents pound, 1t is going to encourage foreign coun- tries to comL Lete with us more and more. England already charges us with having the greatest monopoly on earth in our cotton fields, and she is doing every thing she eau to encourage the produc-