Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-10-28

world; but give him at least an erpaI
education for the farm. Teach him
the interesting and important things
OF farm life, and he will generally
choose the farm as his home"
In nearly 800 communities. chiefly
In Indiana. Massachusetts, Ohio. Flor.
ida and North Dakota, the new
schools are besieged daily bv the
scores of children tumbling from the
incoming carryalls. Several Thousand
or the little district schools, unable
TO offer reasonable excuse for ay.
istence in the face of the new com.
petition, have yielded their preroga.
tlVes to the united institution. and
have been gathered under its spa.
cious roofs.
1t is a powerful force that Is
aligned against the little school
house in the lane" Prof. Willet NJ.
Hays. assistant secretary of agricuI.
ture and leader in the new educs.
ton movement says
THE desolate rural school stand.
ing on the bleak plain, is too un-Amer-
lean to endure the changes of the
times. 1t must be transformed into &
part of our beautiful outdoors, and
1t must be made more efficient IN
general studies, in culture, and in
vocational training for country life"
Soil Analysis and Stock Judalnq.
So education seems to have taken
on a new meaning for the parents OF
the country children. The new sys-
TEN teaches all that the old one did
all the important studies that the
city school offered; all the phases OF
literature, art, history and science
needed to round out the American
citizen.
But it does much more. 1t adds to
these sudies, the vocational training
for the farm" The new schoolhouse
instead Of standing on barren lot
at a wind-swept four corners, is sur
rounded by carefully plated farm
OF ten acres or SO. In the more ad.
yanced of the schools experimental
buildings have been erected, small
- AAb oAkN AOlC5I LIdCLS ldlu OuL, ullla-
ture dairy and poultry plants con
structed. and experimental work Of
all kinds launched
The boys are taught stock Judging.
breeding, crop rotation, scientific
analysis of the soil, the keeping OF
farm accounts, and kindred subjects
Contests are organized between rival
groups of students to see what results
can be obtained in the experimental
plats, and also in practical work on
the farm at home The boy carries
away from the school not confused
mass OF information that he cannot
apply to his daily affairs, but spe-
c1tic idea that certain things can be
evolved from the piece of land he
has been working on for years. He
becomes intensely interested in his
work and studies, and his eyes are
opened not only to the knowledge
of the world in the ordinary sense but
to the great possibilities of the land
with which he is most familiar and If
daily contact
The new school has 200 pupils, in,
stead of 20. 1t has a lecture hall
where spelling bees, class programs
and amateur plays are carried OUT
and where the neighboring farmers
families gather for community
meetings. lectures. and entertain
mepts.
The whole neighborhood often EN-
bracing 200 farms. becomes an i'm
mense laboratory for the school In
the experimental farm surrounding
the building plats are laid out TO re
semble the leading farm of the neigh
borhood.
Great cooperative enterprises, such
as creameries. bakeries. laundTies, az
we'll as the churches and the township
buildings. it is predicted, will in the
near future be located about me
school grounds.
In many sections the farmers ana
their children furnish the conveyanee'
to carry the neighbors' children 10
school; but in the majority OF as
tricts It has been possible TO esia0
fish regular carryall service, nam
tanned at public expense
Indiana leads the way at present
r.. the progress of the new schoo'
r9vement. In almost every coh19
in the state the school wagons are
bringing crowds of children daily 10
the central buildings. and the HOO
Ter schoolmaster" is Of ditieTT"'
type than a generation ago.
Massachusetts is second, Ohio EL'-'
and Florida and North Dakota con
test for fourth place. In almost ever,
state. with the exception Of some O..
the sparsely settled western ones. ''7
farming districts are either eAFsl.
menring with the new system. or As''
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