Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-06-04
FARMERS NEGLECT
OPPORTUNITIES
FOR WEATHER
Is Opinion of Assistan.
Secretary Hays Who Ad
yocates System Of AgricaI-
turaI School to Bring Order
Out Of Chaos


lBs Morning journal special Ieased wireI
Crookston. MINI. juno wlIIet
a ~s- rntar,. - ~
United staica department OF agrieul.
turc. told the Northern Minnesota De-
veiopmcnt association in session here
today that The world rs lo.elne IN
while We farmers plod aiors in oir
u~uorganlzed. uusyetematic, half-
hearted way and IN, world believes
that were our people broader and bet
ter trained we could produce much
hettar Yields than We do, aud No are
forced % admit nc added. that tho
world f. right
whether our activity be religious,
social. political or economic. ne eon-
iinued. we are on 1t fiftcen-bushcl
bHsis with "a twenty-fiNe-bushel OPP
r|ortunitN Tht blood OF our people.
the hereditary potencies of our Whents
and the productive potentially ~. our
soil aud climate warrant q rapid in
crease Of wheat Yields w 10 twenty
five bushels per acre. ana Of other
farm products IN proportion ana even
rapid should be the growth of
Intelligence, home Twins and social
ndyancemcnt generally.
The cure for these larger troubles
in agricultural ne Is in the school sys-
TEN. according 10 MI. Hays. He pro-
cccded 70 describe Ia detail the sNs-
rem which. IN Ills opinion. would
hrlng order out of the present chaos
IN the organization Of country life He
declared that. except IN Isolated cases
where the broader method was not
prncticRbie. the old-fashioned one
room school house should give way
to The consolidated school. The lat
ter would provide accommodations for
students within the surrounding five
or six square miles. IL would con-
tain three on fDur rooms for an ele-
mentary school. ono FOR the high
school classes and q large room for
laboratory ana practice work ana FOR
vocational studies.
'srhe typical consolidated rural
school continued Mr.. Hays. "will
have a tcn-aore school farm. In this
riorthwes country hair OF the farm
viii be developed Tor a combined cam-
nus and farmstead IN a timber belt
on part Of the fnfm experiments viii
be conducted with forest trees IN plot
mixtures, which help To solve the tree
problem For groves to protect our
farm homes.
Within this protected area VIII b"
U"fitNKIbNnUN IVi INV FAiiu'ilRN HAt ~
viii contain ornamental trees, shrubs
aud flowers. fruits aud vegetables and
beautiful grass lawns. There Will be
Il cottage TOR the principal Of the
school. The other five acres VIII DO
devoted 10 field cropa, crop roti-
ions will We demonstrated here
Methods OF cultivation VIII be taught
New varieties ef grains. grasses and
other varieties OF plants vii be test
ed. as also small fruil, shrubs and
fruit trees.
Tho speaker advocated that farm
boys ana girls dDring their teens spend
FIX months IN school and sis az home
on the farm each year.
"rndcr this plan, he said 'the
consolidated rural school VIII rave a
fun attendance during the six winter
months. The children In the FIRST SIX
or eight grades would start earlier I'm
the autumn aud remain in school later
la the spring Under this plan the
pupils who are old enough TO help on
The rnrm not only would assist IN
solving the labor problem, but during
thclr Years Of youth Whun they can
learn rapidly, would gain the knowl-
edge and the habits OF the farmer aud
the farm homemakcr They would
redulre ono, two OF possibly three
Years longer 70 finish their high school
course.
THE last two or three winters they
could spend In Dn agricultural hish
school such as TINT here ~ crook
ION. And along with their schooling
the, viii hayr served a th~orough-R"-
ing vocational apprenticeship They
would be far more thoroughly edu-
Gated than these youths who now 80
40 school almost continuously untli
they are through the nigh school
course.
Il wish 20 express my gratitude
said Mr. Ifnys, ih conclusion tha'
Minnesota is not adopting the mar
rover plan Of one county agricultural
hieh school ia ench county, with only
the onc-room district schools for the
education Of the great hulk of those
who are TO our farms an"
farm homes
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