Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-06
Nebraska
AELLQR BOOSTS FARM TOPICS
Secretary Of Agricultural Board sug-
gests New Curriculum.
WOULD ABANDON OLD THEMES
Thinks Farm Subjects should BE
Taught in schooIs-Hayward
Asked 90 Deliver
Speech.
Rrom a staff Correspondent

Prom a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Feb. 5-(special.)-w r.
Mellor, secretary to the State Board OF
Agriculture. has an idea that people are
moving from the farms into the cities be-
cause OF the lack OF agricultural education
taught in the schools.
Mr.. Mellor got an opportunity to present
his ideas TO a number Of school people and
others, making up an audience OF COO at
Hebron last night. Along these lines he
said:
"One OF the best incentives for improved
agriculture in Nebraska would be to turn
from dead poets, dead generals, dead kings
and Beyond the Alps Lies Italy" subjects,
and impress the minds of the school teacher
the adylsabili+y Of having the pupils pre-
pare essays on Weeds That Grow in
Thayer County and the Best Method of
Destroying Them, Root Crops, Their
Selection and Uses What Vegetables
Should be Grown and why Description
of Grain Grown on Our Farm How TO
Tell Different Kinds of Fruit Trees What
Varieties Of Apples we Grow, With
Description why the Kind Of Poultry
Raised on Our Farm Is the Best is the
Dairy Cow or the Beef Breed Type the
Best for This Section OF Nebraska The
Kind of a Farm Horse we Should Have
To these subjects might be added a thou
sand others touching seeds, preparation of
the seed-bed, planting, cultivation, con-
servation of moisture, soil fertility, gather
ing and storing the crope and numerous
other farm subjects.
Get a score card for live stock and
teach the pupils how &c Judge the good
qualities from animals exhibited before
them at specific intervals. Learn to dis
tlnguish breeds Of horses, how to tell a
Shorthorn cattle from Red Polled, Aber-
deen-Angus from Galloway. a Poland
China hog from a Berkshire, a Southdown
sheep from an oxford and so on through
the numerous vital matters of Importance
with which the farmers of Thayer county
should be thoroughly conversant.
1T is strange that a child grown in an
agricultural community such as is found
all through this part of Nebraska, knows
so little about the very things which are
matters of every day contact"
I Hayward TO speak.
y William Hayward. secretary of the re-
publican national committee and chairman
o fthe republican state committee, has been
invited 10 deliver a lecture on Abraham
Lincoln at the Peru Normal school next
Saturday night, on behalf of the normal
school Jasper J.. McBrien. head Of the ex-
tension work Of the state university, ex-
tended the invitation to Colonel Hay
ward today.
Pool for Secretary of state.
The report has reached Lincoln that C..
w. Pool, speaker of the late bunch Of
democratic JOB hunters is going to be a
candidate for the democratic nomination
for secretary of state. Mr.. Pool was in
Lincoln In conference with Governor Shall
lenberger several days ago and at that
time he was talking OF running for United
States senator, but the report received. to-
day indicated that the speaker would be
satisfied temporarily to be merely secre-
y tary of state. Stil hoping for an extra
session of tho legislature. 1t is the guess
that the speaker will not be off with his
old job while chasing after the new.
strieter 20 BE Captain.
Martin Ernst Strieter Of Seward has been
to Adjutant General Harti-
gan for q commission as captain OF cadets
at the state university and the commission
win be delivered to him at the mid winter
commencement February Is.
sample of COnvict Goods.
Warden Smith brought to the state house
today a shirt and pair of trousers as
samples of the work being done by the
convicts In the state penitentiary under the
new contract which Governor Shallenberger
was Induced 10 sign y Colonel Bergman
of Omaha. Governor Shallenberger's sigma
tire was attached to this last contract
after he had refused 10 sign a contract
permitting the manufacture Of clothes in
the prison because of his love of free labor,
The samples Mr., Smith brought to the
state house were small. but according tc
his idea they showed the convicts were APT
pupils in learning the tailoring business.
incidentally, Mr.. Smith is rather short
on convicts at this time and every able
bodied convict in the institution is being
worked the limit. One day this week he
was compelled to use the walters and cooks
to load a car of brooms and unload some
broom corn.
Opposition for Kinkald.
Frank e. Beeman Of Kearney has filed
his name with the secretary Of state as
candidate for the republican nomination fo
congress In the Sixth congressional dis
trict. Mr.. Beeman is an attorney and hai
frequently been mentionedsas a prosperity,
candidate for congress.
Dick Shute bound over.
BROKEN BOW. Neb., Feb. 5~.-(Speclal.
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