The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-01-21
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raj schools @to educate farm children
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them the things closely related to.
their daily life. says journal OF 3Agrl-
culture. The movement has been slow,
fbuts the growth has been sure and now
promises much actual good. The,
study of the elements Of agriculture,
with all Of the allied branches, is now n on
pursued in nearly all Of the rural
schools Of every state in the union,
lin a more or less definite way.
The coming years will see it more
systematized and efficient in it's work
/ ings. This will lead children Of the
farm to a higher plane of living and
bring them into love and harmony
with their surroundings.
The farm boy is the backbone OF
American manhood That has been
said before. Yet the farm boy as a
rule at manhood wishes to leave the
royal path which has made him what
he is
What are the reasons for this?
The main reason is that he sees
men in other walks of life doing
greater things than his father has
done and greater things than he
thinks he shall be able to do if he re-
mains on the farm.
/ Another and vital reason is that ev-
cry boy possesses instinct, not easily
controlled, to move out into the larger
and wider world to see and to conquer
new things and to establish a new
home where the family tribe will not
] become effete with overcroWding and
inbreeding.
The education of the past has been
! IN the direction of the so.called "pro-
i fessions the ministry, law and medi-
cine. The farm boy had no chance to
develop high mentality and efficiency
along the lines Of farming. For this
reason the best boys have left the
farm and gone into fields where they
4 could assert their powers and do
things that the world would recognize.
I: There have been some wonderful
| inventions in the line of farm nipple.
ments and general farm equipment,
but it is a fact that the selfbinder,
\ Babcock tester, corn husker and other
/. farm machinery Of note were invented
! and introduced by men not in the
i farming business. It would naturally
seem that the farmer himself would
!. be the man to see the need of better
machines and devices for farming, but
! such in the. main has not been the
case. improvements in farming have
4 not come from farmers because farm
boys have not been educated in those
things which enabled them to investi
gate and execute in the right direction
Agricultural colleges, like our OWL
Missouri college, are beginning the
right education for farm boys an6
: girls, and with time it is hoped thai
. they will completely solve the problem
and teach things that will educate to
ward the farm rather than away from
q the farm. i 4
The farm boy needs first of all al
Z education in the fundame entail branches
Of learning to give him broad genera
I knowled ge, and then special training
along lines that will make him capable
!. of doing valuable things ii q large
way on the farm with plants. animals
!, machinery and the many things which
directly influence country living boil
; from the family and the communit!
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II the boy is taught how he may d
!, big things on the farm he will wan
4 to stay on the farm and do them.