Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1909-10-28
TEACHING FARMING
SCiENIE OF THE PRESIDENT OF
THE FARMERS UNION TO
Establish In Each State a School to
Teach Actual, Practical Farming
Means Much.

Means Much.
The movement recently broachet
by President Charles S. Barrett OF
the National Farmers Union look.
ing to the establishment of schools
in each State OF the Union as purely
| schools for actual teaching of actual
| practical farming-in other words
farms and school njoined-is the
most novel and radical movement OF
the kind ever conceived by anyone
In discussing the matter w. NJ
| Sheriff.. of Denver Colo. says 81
have recently read in The Atlanta
| Constitution a lengthy article by Mr.
Barrett, giving his idea OF the pos
sibility and practicability OF such
schools and I must say his idea,
while novel and radical. as before
said. seem to mo both sure and prac-
tical
For instance. his idea that there
shall be one great national training
or farmers school centrally located
and subsidiary small feeding schools
to not only teach, but practice sure
enough old-time farming (not pid-
dling) is certainly a movement. II
carried out. would mean an absolute
revolution in farms and farmers cv-
erywhere-especially in the South.
Mr.. Barrett. as Is we'll known. is a
practical, cultured, sane man; and he
says his idea has been in his brain
many years; that he is going to work
the scheme, and promulgate and car
ry 1t out in every detail.
1t is known that SO many farmers
In the South, say in North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia, are
dragging not a living, scarcely, but
hand-to-mouth existance on old
wornout red gully hill Sides and
dales. 1t is his aim and determine
tion to show those worthy men thone
more worthy on Gods green eartiD
that these conditions are wrong; tvcI
not be SO. can be changed by actual
training schools for young men. max
Ing farming what 1t surely and real
ly ia study and science.
We all know, II once some OF tho
dear old-time farmers could BE- 90,
TO see that book farming" is not
! nonsense. not a bugaboo, hut neces-
sity, If farming Is to be rightly done
| say If these schools can bs run
80 as 10 show them. through train
ing their sons in farming schools
transform with high intelligence and
intensity and to bring up" the So
called WORKOUT farms mot worn out
as supposed all too often), If the
farm school can do any such work
as this. their establishment will sure.
ly mean more for us all. Hhether III
| town or country, than any movement
have heard Of in d great time.
Mr.. Barrett is already at work
says he has money and support be
hind him. Is not talking as visiona
ry; has studied the situation, and 1:
going to do what he has long fell
and desired and ought to be done.
In what | write | do not NEAR
to place the farm head and shoulders
above other occupations. We are tC
consider the thousands of wage-earu
ers and all other classes. do meat
that. so much depending on fieh
farming. that the farmer OF all men
needs schooling-just as the lawye
or the doctor or the minister mus
have such to have any success o
standing whatsoever. | do not thinl
this movement to turn the heads.
so to speak. of this class. Wher
did right schooling ever do such
But I do believe It a sane and neces
sary and feasible movement, whicl
heaven knows / wish hearty success