Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-19

AAS4Ou5 OA AAt past lAio tOM A4oh4l nigh school commencement up in Iowa aas 6 most anaz.ng one ,TbeIe Tas the usual apdience og admirius iel- 8tives and friends, and the gTadu- ates were IS nervous, staIched and m at ease as graduates have always heen.
 There were no long essays anH galnglo.tons oIations on the pre- gam. While the audience was bein seated a keen ear might have dls J Jngaished the trampling of heavl hoo s back Of the stage. The prelin inaries were disposed of swiftly. Spectators and graduating class alike wondered what was coming next. When q big. gray. hairy-legged percheron horse was led ont on the stare by a serions-looking bespecta- eled man. the audience gasped in as tonlehment.
 The srectaeIed nan led the biz gray out we'll to the front Of the stage and began a lecture on stock iadglng,' Illustrating his points by references to the head, shoulders and general conformation of the Per cheron The reople in the audience settled town to listen and became interested. Most of them were farm CTS and the sons and daughters of farming folks. As soon as the Tee ture on stock judging was finished, university professor addressed them on ways and means of improy- ing farm life Other sneakers tol- lowed, men who had something 10 7v wo~fh listening to, and they were all given an enthusiastic hear ing.
 Becoming Common.
 That Wright county, Iowa, town shin high school will have a com F enoement this year along the same general lines. There were 140 public schools in the county, and all of them are intensely interested in the thines that pertain to agriculture. Other counties in Iowa are follow ing the same plan. The schools are teginning 10 go out and educate the farmer In rural education the 'old order changeth. giving place to the new"
 Out in Kansas. the State Agricul- tural school at Manhattan Is sending exrerts over the state to help the farmers to grow better wheat, bel ter corn and more alfalfa. They al catrering littls grours of farmers T g warehouses, hotel parlors and tN bapa-e rooms of railway depots anu telling them. in a terse. direct and matter of fact way, just what to do and how to do it. Thirty or forty farmers in any community can se- cure the services of one of these in- structors at any time by writing ln- to the Agricultural school and max inc their warts. known.
 The university Of that state is aiding in the work While the agri- cultural school loo$s after tho pure ly rural features Of education, the university extension work is bring ing culture into tbe homes Of the scattered farmers. from Dodge City and Great Bend to Neoiesha and Pa ola. Farmers of Kansas are learn ing chemistry, physics. astronomy and even the drama and hehelettres' through the work of the men who are carving the schooiroom ihto their very front yards.
 Missouri Also
 Missouri is not far behind in the work Of educating the men who tili her soil. Agricultural trains cross and recross the state every season lea -ing men with messages to the sarrrer- and the stock breeder. Fam st students of agriculture strive m F few brief talks at every stop 10 drive home some Of the most salient ro nts in wheat erowinT, corn cult vat'on or hos raising. The results are auparent in all communities WIS ted oy these trains.
 Verv carly in it's life as a state oklahoma took up the work or car wing he school into the fields O tho fa -rner. The Peter Wheet .rrafnsr md the Good Roads Spe afaIs" ha ge hsl~e1 to stir the cor u,onweaIte. Crowds of farmers an towusreonse. too. attend the le0tuTes giveu in tn ? railroad yards or in the little "operz houses." for the to"ns ran in Olzlshona reali7es that ms pros,srity uarends upon the pros perity Of the 'armer.
 I, q balf dc zen states Of the mid sle west aeric rlture is now part of the country school c'rrlc'lI' -. Gardens are part or the resuieL crh0nl gTnlnNS. SUI NANtAAA7N-@ fa-,gbt in a simD'e manner. b1t SD effectively that every child undeI. stsrds 1t. Little fclks of 10 or lz wears of age can put the'r elders '' sEarre in their expianation or the theory of crop rotaton. School au- tForities dream Of the day when the eirls of the upper gra les in toe rl- ral schools will cook te7 daily luhcn, es Inf tqe entire enso-' 'Tent, ana tbus nut into practice t7eir regular lessons in domestic econrnny.
 The idea Of educating the farmer in this country has been growing in strength for a generation. Long a-o sore of the more farseeinS s,stes set aside lands and money 70 be used i ntNe establishment oi schools of agriculture. .
 Fxreriurent stations now dot tns r,z1s of many of the states. All ol tbem are doing something in tne s-,c,D s-sg og st,ray and experimentation and the ~es,.Its of their work are oe- 'ro given gratis to all who may asA them.
 The Great Defect.
 srFarmers in America" says n~ Lace an autho-itv than Willeft V