The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-17
Farmino in public Schools.

Farming in Public Schools.
Miss Laura Philips of the extension
department OF the State Agricultural
College at Ames. spoke on the rela-
tion of schools to agriculture and
said
Success in life, never just happens.
not even the prize winning $3.50 ear
Of Iowa corn Turning her attention
to the schools, Miss Philips said,
"What we need to do is to set Bill
to work. instead of permitting him to
set on the corner dry goods boX-ft
tho school to Bill, not Bill to the
school. The newspaper and the news
paper man is the best friend the
school has. Some pupils may start
| too late to win diploma but the boy
| who adjusts himself to something real
earns degree which colleges cannot
confer-the dagree of ID. S.'-'Do
Something Iowa with five million
OF dollars in her school fund is able
to start every boy and girl along the
lines they need. The boys and girls
need. vocational courses thereby reach
ing those who do not adjust them
selves to the present studies. feel
sorry for the boy who is born and
lives on a fifty foot lot. The school
should lead the boys to discover them
selves that they may do something
The boy who is going to be farmer
should be equipped with training. The
rural school should be just as good as
any furnished by the great state of
Iowa. The city schools have failed
in some things just as the rural
school has failed. We do not teach
the things vital to real life.
/ While you are talking about prize
winning corn aid prize winning hogs
it is time for you to figur" on chang
ing your boys into prize winning
boys. There is something wrong with
the high school when it fails . fit
the boys and girls for ractical life
eve could teach corn in the city
schools without upsetting a class in
arithmetic. Teach the boys something
real. Let them read something con.
nected with reality. Let them write
, Uncle Sam for crop and husbandry
, bulletins will read them, be-
. cause they are real. Let the boys and
girls learn to think.
Il would not have every boy be a
]. farmer, but / would stop Lnmaking
farmers in Iowa. Every Iowa high
school should be interested in agri
culture, because the rural teachers
| 10, l.,
and agriculture should be taught in
, every rural school. The standard oil
teachers is not high enough. Teach
ers should be heavy weights in the
balance. they should not be in the
, light weight end of the balance wher
, boys and girls are placed in the oth
Ell end.
"The board of supervisors in every
county should appropriate liberia
allowance for the purpose of enabl
ling the county superintendents to Sc
cure properly qualified farm teach
: er in the county Institutes. Give the
schools, the teachers end vcur boys
a chance to be prize winners, alont
with the prize winners in cattle
g horses and hogs
i Prof. Hazen of Denver Academ.
e save an explanation e the plans, pur
: pose and work of me Iowa Stat,
i Agricultural school at Ames and th,
q relation it bears to the farm and farm
). methods. He insisted that tie farme
!. of the future must be an educate.
e man.
o Prof. H. F. Luck of Ames gave
}. short and illustrated talk on feedin
il and balanced rations, saying:
t.. Iowa is pre-eminently corn state
Corn is not only the basis of low
prosperity, but is the foundation of
balanced nation. In Iowa We ar
: feeding abundantly but not a balance
b ration We are wasteful. A balance
II ration is one that exactly fits the al
n. imal We should feed for the prrpos,
ID no two animals calling for or neet
1T ing the same feed