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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. AT 1nAcANY


schools, with the intention that they be
used by the pupils and teachers. One Of
these is entitled School Lessons on
Corn" which shows just how corn should
be grown. Another bulletin deals with
plant production and school exercises
therefor. In this the children are taught
all about plants by growing them them
selves according to the directions. An
other paper shows how to test farm seeds
at school and at home. BY means Of this
a child learns whether the clover or al
fa'fa seed his father is using is pure or
whether it is mixed with weeds. He
learns to know what good seed is and
how well it pays to plant it. These school
the city schools. space as big as a
hall bedroom suffices to make one Upon
this half dozen vegetables can be grown
and by rotation OF crops these can be
changed from time to time. In some
cases vegetables and flowers are grown
upon such plot.
Connected with some of the schools are
hotbeds and orchards we'll as barns for
animals and pens for pigs. The ideal
school should have about ten acres for
farms. gardens and other work 1t should
have its poultry yard and its forest plot
The boys compete at home as to the fat
tening of pigs and also in blowing, corn
raising and in the growing of strawber-
ries and small fruits of various kinds
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The courses deal with home economics
and with all sorts of farm topics
And just here l want to speak about
the bureau Of experiment stations and the
wonderful work they are doing along ed
ucational lines. This branch of the De-
partment of Agriculture is under the
charge of DIR. A. c. True, who has de-
veloped 1t to such degree that its work
now reaches every part of the country.
1t Is of enormous value in it's research
work and its exhibitions of practical agl l.
culture; and its educational work affects
every man, woman and child in the Unit
ed States. This bureau has TO dc in an
advisory way with the agricultural col
IegeS. Many of the stations are connect
ed with the colleges, and some of the Of
ficers are teachers therein. l. does niue j
in college extension work and it is now
sending out every year about 24.000p0
copies of bulletins containing agricultural
information.
The bureau of experiment stations deals
also with the farmers Institutes branch
Of which is under the direction of Mr. John
Hamilton, the farmers inst ute special
list. There were more than 500 of these
Institutes which had regular meetings
last year. and they reached over 3.oo0oG
people They had altogether 1900 ses-
siOns. There are also a large number OF
farmers Institutes for young people and
of farmers institutes for women. The
latter held 732 meetings in 1910 These
farm institutes are largely supported by
the state boards of agrit ulture each of
which has its institute director, and con-
nected with him a lecture bureau which
sends out specialists to the Institutes
giving them lectures on any farm topic
they desire. Allied to these institutes
are the country fairs. Of which more
than 1900 are supported by the counties
alone.
OF late the Department of Agriculture
has been sending out a number of Illus
trated lectures to be used at the farm
colleges, farm Institutes eXtens on courses
and the farm clubs all over the country
Each lecture has forty or fifty lantern
slides connected with it, and also a bulle-
tin of information describing the slides.
Here, for instance, is a syllabus on the
helpful hen. 1t is ACCOMPANIED by forty
four slides. and 1t tells how to Use fowls
and how to market them. Its pictures
show all sorts of chickens and eggs.
graphically depicting how fowls vary in
their production from some hens which
lay go eggs year to others which lay
none at all. The lel ture states that our
farms are now producing S6Oo. 100000
worth of poultry per annuln, and the crop
ranks among the greatest of those which
come from the farm
Another lecture relates TO the care of
milk, showing that our dairy crop is
worth about S600,Oo0,oOO per year, and
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how We have 1s,o16ooo miich cows IN
the United States 10 supply it. l. tells
just how the cow and its milk should he
treated and how To get the most money
out of all dairy products
Another feature of this educational
work of Uncle Sam is carried on in con-
nection with the trains. Last year fifty
two of our leading railroad companies
We're aiding the government in teaching
farm education They employed -.
school cars, and sent them over i0top
miles Of track. Their trains made ,s'5
stops, and at each place a corps of eX-
pert lecturers delivered talks upon agri-
culture and domestic science adapted 10
the locality. The total cost of operating
each train was something like Sap day,
and the total amount spent was over
$4,000 This teaching reached hundreds
of thousands of people. 1t embraced "A
total of about 4.Ot1 days of iecturing or
period equal to fourteen years of 3oD
days each
Each OF these educational trains had a
locomotive, baggage ear and one or
two coaches fitted up for lecture pur-
poses. 1t also carried a Pullman car,
with a dining room and sleeping quar-
tiers for the lecture force. The lecturers
were from the national and state depart
ments of agriculture. and from the coll
leges. The subjects were chosen to fit the
locality where the lectures We're given
In a dairy country the talks were
dairying, and the trains frequently car
ried dairy cattle, and specimens of but
ter and cheese and all sorts of dairy i'm
plementS to illustrate the work. In a
fruit country the trains had fruit exhibits
and in q stock country they had hogs
and cattle of various kinds. In the
wheat and corn lands the lecturers talk
ed wheat and corn, and in some other
places they talked cotton or truck gar
dening.
These educational trains have their adj
vance agents The farmers know when
they are coming. and they gather I'm
crowds at the stations. The railroads
realize the value. and say that such edu-
cation has materially added sto their
traffic. Indeed, the freight from the
farms has much to do with paying the
dividends of the railroads In 1893 of all
the freight carried 100000 tons was
made up Of agricultural products. OF.
this 100000 tons came from the forest
and IL OC0O0o tons from the farms prop
err. while 2e.00.GD tons were made up
of animals and other products. The aver
age receipt for this stuff. ton per ton.
was far above that of coal and some
other minerals.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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Jam lasts half an hour. Good. But the
old boulevard had no Jams.
The palatial American hotel and Office
buildings will be convenient and hygienic
Good, But the old boulevard's brilliancy
did not depend on architecture.
SO. Paris is divided. Half mourn Il
''vanishing boulevard half welcome ID
transformed boulevard" putting both
the blame and praise on the backs OF
Americans.
The boulevard was always the Italiens.
In It's quarter of a mile stretch was sup
posed to center all the wit and artistic
gossip. theater. press, literature. gas
tronomy. masculine elegance. gaming and
man-about-town leisure and appreciation
OF all Paris: and perhaps all Europe. The
Prince OF Wales and Archduke Rudolph
made dates at the Cafe Anglais Lord
Seymour and Prince Demidof led the riot
of the carnival from Bellevile To the
Maison Doree. Rossini and Dumas tn
vented famous restaurant dishes at the
Cafe Richie. Lord George Hamilton and
Cora Pearl imagined the crinoline in a
supper room Of Tortoni's.
Two great city-transforming street cuts
will completely change the landscape
around the old sites. LsZt and Chopin
would lose themselves hunting for the
opera Oliver Wendell Holmes Washing
ton Irving and John Howard Payne would
stand bewildered In the mingling vistas
Of the Boulevard Haussmann ana their
boulevard. Even Robert Louis Steven
son and Whistler might fail to recognize
beloved landmarks.
When the Boulevard Haussmann is cut
through all It's new buildings near the
Junction will be modern and magnificent.
From the Cafe Richie on to the bastille
the old boulevard will seem It's continue
tioa. The new Cafe Richie building
eTandiose structure of New York life
insurance company-will finally uninask
the beautiful hidden facade which Paris
he's never seen made when the building
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was run up eight years ago In view of
this eventualitY, and who knows if the
vaster. richer modern throng of mingled
foreigners and French will not be led to
a new pleasure ground.
Ideals change. An American magazine
has just asked for an article on The Lit
erary Cafes. If they can find a single
one | will make them IA present of it.
Amid the lun and dinner rattle tables
full of beer and mingled hors d'oeuvres, of
the Grand cafe You may pick out the ia
bles of Georges Courteline and CASTOR
l4eroux. surrounded by low-spoke zen. jeal-
Gus followers. AT the Ice Cream Cafe
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Neapoltan you may see Ernest LaJeu-
nesse and five disciples whispering. lost
amid ladies come for lemon and vanilla.
The literary cafes are gone.
Gone are the white cafes. too" mourn
habitues. where one could hear the
topics OF the day discussed by gentlemen
while slipping chocolate or hot spiced wine.
Today, 1t is the gorgeous Flemish bras
serie. where all that we valued has been
overwhelmed by beer and Belgian cook
ery."
So with the streets architecture. The
old idea was plain agreeable perspec-
tive which would harmoniZe with the sky
line and the trees. Now the new Amer
lean" buildings-each beautiful In itself,
with scrolls, towers. copper and porcelain
applications and dentellated roofs-shriek
at one another. without harmony, built UP
as high as the law allows, and sometimes
higher
For example, when the Vaudeville
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Theater was built in 1861 the architect
Magno. was careful to give it a rounded
corner and inspire its entire facade to be
in harmony with the romantic and beauti-
full landmark the opposite corner of
the boulevard, the Pavilion d'Hanovre-
where Cagliostro made the Marshal Duke
de Riche1ieu and his friends drink the
elixir of life, grow young for an hour
and learn their tragic or shameful fates
in the coming revolution.
This simple and noble old front was
built for a suburban bijou villa in 1860
when the entire boulevard was a shady
bowling green on the space of the torn
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IP the great IN

GRADED Schools for the
~ Farmers-The Passing OF
the Little Frame Schoolhouse
Hundreds of Thousands OF
Children Now Carried to
School in Carriages-Special
Teaching for Country Chill
dren School Gardens and
School Farms-Uncle Sans
Agricultural Colleges-They
Have an Income of Twenty
Million Dollars a Year
Movable Schools and the
Farm Institutes - Teaching
Farming by Trains-Lantern-
Slide Lectures "A Great
Movement. Directed by Uncle
Sam, Patriarch.
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sixteen district schools whose average at
tendance is only FIVE. The same condi-
tons prevail all over the country
The advanced movement provides for
the wiping out of these little schools and
the organizing of arge ones at such dis
tances apart that many of the children
must be brought in carriages or wagons.
1t presuppoSes one large graded school
for every twenty or forty square miles.
The nearby children walk. and those who
live the outskirts ride. The schools
organized have an attendance of several
hundred. The pupils are given thor
ough education and the child starts in at
the kindergarten and comes out at the
high school In some schools the high
school is omitted. but there are eight
years of a graded school. with grade
for each year. and in this way the cOun-
try boy or girl gets a schooling which
compares well with that of the best
schools of our cities.
This consolidated school system is slow
ly working its way over the Union. 1t is
now in existence in thirty-two different
states. and there are more than two thou
sand such schools in operation 1t is
estimated that the number will eventually
be thirty thousand and that two-thirds of
the small rural schools which now exist
will have been done away with.
The bringing the children to school
in wagons has been found to be of
great success. The transportation per
pupil costs but few cents day. and
the expense Is small in comparison with
the advantage gained. In Massachu-
sets where the system is in thorough
operation and covers the state, the
amount spent for transportation is
about 100000 a year. In Indiana it
is only a little less. and in Vermont
it is about $4,000. In Florida the
schools have been consolidated in thirty
different counties. and the cost Of carry
ing the children to school is $4,000
per school year.
This movement means the passing
away of the log schoolhouse, the SD
and the little frame shack
1t means the erection of big school
we'll ventilated and lighted,
with steam heat and all the comforts.
/ have before me photographs of some
of these new country schools. Here is
one at kinSman. Ohio. 1t is built of
brick. with slate roof. and it has two
stories and basement 1t has five class
rooms laboratory and a library. 1t
cost Sc. 900 to build, and it's pupils num-
Der about 100. Here is another at Twin
Falls, Idaho, in a district of thirty-six
square miles and a population of 1000.
This is a finer building than that at
kinsman, and very much larger. The
school there has an enrolment of 1926,
of whom zoo are brought in daily in
wagons. Four years ago the ground on
which the building stands was covered
with sage brush. 1t has now been
turned into school farm, and the
school has two acres of Fairgrounds.
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their correspondence and other courses,
counting none twice, they have $4,000
students.
In connection with these colleges a
great deal Of extension work is carried
on. By this / mean through movable
schools and the correspondence courses
and in other ways, by which those who
cannot attend college can study at home.
In the correspondence courses the
students carry on their studies at their
farms, and the work is directed from the
colleges. BY this means a man or boy
in the widest part of the far west or the
south may get an education in farTin g
or fruit growing. There are 10000
students now studying that way, and this
number will be increased to hundreds of
thousands in the future
The various extension schools are car
ried on by farm lectures and in other
ways. The movable schools consist of
grown-ups who gather together for fixed
periods at certain places and are taught
by experts furnished by the colleges and
by the Department of Agriculture. 1t is
advised that the classes consist of not
less than eight nor more than fifteen
persons who are over eighteen years of
age. and who are especially interested in
the subject of which the course treats.
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down wall of Paris. Rustic garden cafes
like the legendary Ramponneau-save it
the setting of Il comic opera scene. Court
ladies came on escapadeS and took seats
in the open. After us the deluge"' they
say. The deluge came The revolution
and Napoleonic epoch built the bouleva rd
Generals of thirty and colonies of eight
cen would make dates on the battlefield
of Wagram: Meet me at the Cafe Car
Ginal the Both of mex, month" AS late as
lSl2 the boulevard's Poissonniere contin-
uauon was still IL half-built suburban
street! All going up in the same epoch,
they could keep the fronts harmonious.
This Boulevard des Italens begins with
the Cafe Cardinal. Again. to show the
sentiment of the old boulevard they have
always kept the bust of Richelieu at the
corner OF the busy street. The Cardinal
was the original cafe outside the vet more
ancient and mighty cardinal-minister's
palace-now the Palais Royal-where suit
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HEY are tearing
down, C IL [ [ | n Z
through and rails
Ing g T a n d / o S G
American buildings
in the boulevard
OF Paris.
The opening OF
I h e n e " 9 q e
streets and Hauss-
mann artery VIII
= e lieye traffic
c US h eS-often a
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NCLE SAM. patri-
arch. is the great
est e a c h e r on
earth. He has an
army of 1S.eD,C
common 6 C h o o !
children, and his
{ o m m o n school
teachers mum b e I
more than 100000.
His public school
property is valued
at more than a BIZ
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@5o1TAERn 11KLs t5rUDY1NG COOKING

AT the Ohio school it costs cents a
day per pupil to bring them to school.
Another photograph shows a school at
Trumbull county. Ohio, and another one
at Greene Center, in the same state.
One of these buildings cost $1,000. and
the other $4,000. Each keeps eight or
ten wagons to bring in the pupils.
1t is found that more children are
going to school in the districts where
the schools have been consolidated.
There are now about 100000 children
in the country schools. whereas there
should be six or seven millions. When
this new movement is well under way
education will probably be compulsory
everywhere, and every country boy and
girl will get an education.
These new schools are especially adapt
ed to the farmer and to farm life. In
addition to the regular courses as taught
in the city schools, they have some special
studies bearing upon crops and home
economics. / have before me an outline
of the work of one of the schools In
the first and second years nature study
forms part and in the fourth year the
geography is to a large extent physical
showing the work done by nature in pre-
pairing the soil for us. 1t also includes
the distribution of our farm products
all over the world. The higher grades
have lessons in agriculture. and among
the studies of the seventh and eighth
years are cooperative enterprise in farm
ing and matters connected with the farm
stead ana nome. ne cll1luTcn learn ali
about animals, and the boys are taught
how to judge a horse and COW. The
girls learn all about sewing and cooking
as we'll how to make the house beauti-
full and the home pleasant.
In some of these schools the work be-
gins with the kindergarten and ends at
the high school.
Take Lima township, Ind. The CONSOLE
dated school there contains $50 children,
and of these ninety are in the high
school. The teachers of the high schools
are college graduates and those of the
grades are normal graduates. The build
ing has a reading room and a library and
adjoining the school grounds is a school
garden of 200 plots. The children have
a school paper, an orchestra and a band
and a boys-and- girls glee club. They have
athletics and also lecture course. That
school is made up of a consolidation of a
number Of One-room country schools,
each of which had but one teacher.
Nearly all of the new schools have
school gardens and little farms connected
with them. In them the children raise
vegetables and flowers. They study the
soil and learn how and why plants grow.
They are taught all about the work of
the roots and stems and leaves. They
are shown how to grow fruit ana are
taught budding and grating by being
made to do these things themselves. The
Agricultural department sends out
great number of bulletins for these
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Hon dollars, and he Is spending upon
such education about four hundred mil
lions year. He has hundreds of mil
lions invested in academies and colleges
and in the neighborhood of half million
boys and girls are in yearly attendance
upon them. These are big figures, but
they fall short of showing what is now
going on. Uncle Sam has been lying
awake at nights studying how to bring
education to all his children, and his
plans include the grown-ups as well as
the babies.
Indeed. our national brain is beng
reused never before. Every depart
ment of the government is stimulating it,
and the wires are reaching out from here
to every man, woman and child in the
country. In this letter l want to show
something of what is being done for the
people outside the cites The bulk of
our population is in the country. and one
Of the greatest movements of the time is
that for the Improvement of the country
school
We all know of the little frame school
house. There are several hundred thou
sand of them in the United States. They
pepper the Union, and in most cases each
Is taught by man or one woman.
Some of these schoOhouSes have less
than a dozen pupils Kansas has more
than sixteen hundred with an attendance
OF ten or less. Maine has more than two
thousand schools of one room each. and
two hundred of these have less than eight
pupils. Michigan has fifteen hundred
schools of ten students and Nebraska
has twelve hundred of the same charac-
ter In Hardin county, Iowa where the
land is worth a hundred dollars an acre
and the farmers are comparatively rich.
there are large number of schools where
the average attendance is less than six,
and in olmstead county. Mimi. there are
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OLDEST L.NDMARK OF THE
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(which Dumas put
tro lone
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white
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CUTTING New Streets
oand Building Grandiose
Piles - Famous Boulevard
Will Soon Be No More
The Old Spirit Which Still
fingers The Literary
Cafes" of Former Paris
Old Residents Will Fail to
Recognize the Famous Land
marks When Improvements
on Boulevard Are Completed.
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smoked pipes. Each Celebrity Hdu IT'S
long clay. Here the first newspapers
began to be kept on file-newspapers.
that. new element bound finally to. Kill
the boulevard. For who will listen to
gentlemen discussing topics of the
day" when you have already read
them-much better done. 1t was the real
newspaper In its modern form; not pam
phiet. gazette or bundle of dispatches.
Clicking swords were still heard in the
distance, despite the passing Of the man
of-war Chocquart. tall. thin. Ratchet
faced, with long white moustaches, last
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Copyright. 1911, by frank G. Carpenter,
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INK between the Old Imperial bOmbaSter
and the new son of thought, frequented
Tortoni's. One day, as usual, he said:
Waiter chocolate and the Constitution
nel." Monsieur. the Constitutional Is in
hands" quiet gentleman sat read ng
the file copy TRANQUILITY. Five minutes
passed Waiter. the Constitutionnel.'
And again: Monsieur, it is i'm hands -
Then Chocquart, with his most terrible
air. marched up to the quiet gentleman
and snatched the paper from his hands
The duel. following. put a sword thrust
in Chocquart's side. AS soon as he was
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Special Correspondent of The Star
PARIS, November 81 1911
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