The Mena weekly star., 1910-04-21
TEACHERS MUST
 KNOW EAR MING
Must Prepare Themselves Before Beginning of the Next School Year--In Teachers Reading
 Course.

te4 C CT W cesir(s 10 te, ch in the tuJ [ S. o)lS o. kansas ereaftyr, D bTring the tVl weeks in-ervenn between ihi nd the third ;. turdsy in June. must get busy .ry IS agriculture primer, for the new law requiring elementary riculture aud hor. ticultur 10 be taught in the com- mon scho )ls l4s now become eff, C. tive and the lext examination aus lions f teach rs wi contain ques ions CIV ri g agriculture md horticulture.
 The law wss made ''effe ctive" ten mouths after its approval, which would ID ke the effective date abou: April 1. By au over. site, however, that accompanies many statutes in which subse- quents ere necessary to make the law real y effective, nothing was said as 70 VI hen the teachers were to qualify. Under the laws goy. erniug school teaching in Arkan- sas, 10 teacher may iustruct on a subject unless ha wing passed a satisfs ctory txami q tion on same, aud of course ID rtificate of qualific ition can be issued with out an K imitation. At the time the law became effective the time had just passed for the last quarterly examination for teach CTS, so that no examination can now be held on the suieot until the next regular exlmiu ation, June lh-l7.
 Superintendent Cook of the de- partment of education, has includ- ed agriculture in the mauual pre- pared as basis for the summer normal schools throughout the state, the outline in the manual being based on the text adopted as the official school text on agri- culture and horticulture for the state, Ferguson X Lewis text on Agriculture. The preface of this text was written by an Arkansas agricultural educator, Prof. Rufus J. Nelson.
 Many of the teachers through out the state are supplying them- selv,s with the text itself, which, by the way, has been included in the Arkansas Teachers Reading Circle Course, and expect to have the new subject pretty we'll mas tered by the time the examina- tions come on. Examinations for all grades of licence must be taken in agriculture, from the third grade to siate's certificate or professional license. This will make eight branches instead of seven for examination for third grade certificate; eleven instead ot ten for second grade, and thir- teen instead of twelve for first grade license.
 As 10 how rigid the examina- ti)ns are going to be in Inc new subject is naturally matter of no lItt.e concern to the thousands of teachers throughout the state. Dr. C. F. Adams, dean of the col lege of agriculture at the state university, prepared the outline on agriculture included in the manual and upon which the ques- lions will be based, so that it IS safe to say the outline covers the ground" thoroughly.
 Speaking on this point, Super lntendent Cock stated that he be heved tbe examinations would be sucn that no teacher who would make a really earnest effort to master the outline in the manual would fall down on the examina- tions.
 I Most teachers approach ne suoJect with more or less awe, at nrs''' said Superintendent Cook,
 yet they usually have more ap- p'enension than there is really oc- easlon tor. 1 do not mean by 'nis the examinations in the new ofanch are to be mere matters of 'olm. We do not intend for agri. ea''ure to be treated as a play.
 "lng branch in the schools; yet,