Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-08-23

be boarded solid. The outside crib
walls will be 10 feet high.
This structure will hold about A.
tons of hay. The outside is white
pine; the stills and post are exc in
ches; the nail ties. Ak " and AKA raft
ers, 2x4; studding, Exc; crib stills,
Axe. The foundation is of concrete
The roof is shingled. Mr. Ladage
has estimated the cost as about $500,
labor and all. including concrete
floors in the cribs. This seems a
moderate sum for the building Sc
cured.
He figures that it takes lots of
lumber to make hay loft and the
extra strength to support such weight
and hence that it is more economical
to let the hay rest on the ground,
and put the extra lumber into more
shed room.
Girl Gets $500 from Poultry.
Miss Kate Maxcy of Sangamon
county pays considerable attention
to poultry in a plain practical way.
Last year her income was $20S.43
for eggs and $100.05 for poultry a
total of $30S4S. She keeps Barred
Plymouth Rocks, and was able to
sell all the good cockerels at S each,
50 of them. The feed costs her but
little, as the grain comes from her
| fathers farm. She has this year
bought only 200 pounds of bran and
| a little wheat.
This year up to June % she had
taken in $22250, $S1.55 for market
eggs, $3.50 for eggs for Matching,
and $71.45 for poultry. And she
| then had about 800 chicks.
Miss Maxcy has faith in her work
as shown by her purchasing two set
tings of eggs in June at 81 each, plus
| the express from New England.
These are of highly approved
strain and got at the reduced rate
| for June eggs. She will watch the
outcome of this investment with
, interest, guarding it with all care.
The New Country school.
There is to be a much closer rela-
| ton between the school and life. be-
| tween the school and the commun-
| ity. and the school is to do the
things that will help the boys and
girls TO find their work in the world
| Right at this; point is the key to all
| successful teaching. The school has
| preached it's nigh ideals and hal
considered the work-a-day world as
| too commercial, and the practical
affairs of life have considered the
school as wholly impractical and Wis
| ionary.
| The vast majority of the people
must finally get their sustenanct
from the soil, and the education OF
the future must in some way, more
than ever before. inspire Il love fol
the land Here is one of the grea
problems, if not the greatest prob
lem, of the school of the Goth cen
fury The country school as organ
lied at present is Inadequate e
solve this problem.
Think of the development from
the sickle and the cradle to the mod
ern grain harvesters. There is jus
the same development in all farm
machinery and in the farm home
But in the large majority of case
the country school house is the poor
est building in the community, on
of repair and going to decay. In
large number of cases the schoo
corresponds to the sickle age. TIL
city schools have made better prog
reSs in training for city life thar
the country schools have in training
for country life.
There has in fact been no countr
school. Hitherto all schools hav
been alike, city, country and town
Their province has not been to edu
cate, to develop boys and girls int
men and women but merely to i'm
part unrelated facts of arithmetic
geography and history. The countr
schools, have never realized tina