Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-29
AGRICULTURAL DAY
IN ALL SOUTH DAKOTA
ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER
SIXTH.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, h various
State Institutions and From
Many Different Parts OF
the Sunshine stats.

schools of South Dakota will come on
Friday, December 6, and c. G.. Law
renee, superintendent Of public In
struction, has written to the county
superintendent asking them to coop
crate; and gave a special program Tor
agricultural day.
Mr. L~awrence's letter follows:
acting on the suggestion OF the
United States commissioner OF u
cation, many Of the states have set
apart the 27th of November as ag7-
cultural day." but because of the meet
ing of the state teachers association
on that date, l have decided to ask
our schools-especially our rural
schools-to devote The afternoon OF
Friday, December 6, 1912, to an agri-
cultural program instead Of the late
suggested by the commissioner. Inc
children and their parents should be
induced to place on exhibit at the
school such things connected WIN
farm life and improvement as can be
brought conveniently, such as exhlD-
it's OF corn and other grain improved
farm implements, etc.
Good farming is the most impor-
TAM question before the people OF
South Dakota today. When all the
farmers shall raise good horses, cattle,
hogs and poultry, farm intenslvely n
raise abundant crops and DO these
things in ways that will add constant
ly to the fertility of their lands; or
ganize themselves into associations
for the purpose of %disposing OF their
products to the best advantage, build
good homes properly equipped with
the comforts and conyeniences of life,
provide proper quarters for thei
stock, and use implements that will
transfer the heaviest burdens OF the
farm from the shoulders of the farm
err, his wife and children to stronger
shoulders better able to bear them,
farming will be an attractive profess
sion, the country a delightful place to
live in, and the land will be filled with
plenty. Agricultural day has been set
apart as the one day of the year when
the attention of all people, rural and
urban, may be directed to the rich
blessings that await the farmer, and
through him all other classes, if he but
knew how to appropriate them, and as
a means of enabling the schools to
contribute more positively to the de-
velopment of our farming interests.
This day should be made the most i'm
portant day of the school session.
The benefits to come from it should
be real and far reaching. The exer-
cises held in the schools throughout
the state should contribute to the
arousing of a statewide interest in
better conditions for the country. I
sincerely trust that agricultural day
will become a permanent institution
in our public schools"
Suggestions for Program.
Open with America" sung by the
school; objects of the day by the
teacher; assign topics for essays by
both boys and girls, and arrange for
two or more citizens of the community
practical farmers-to talk or read
papers on given subjects. Make as
much as possible Of agricultural and
home-making exhibits. Any time and
attention you may give this program
will be spent. The following are suit
able topics and others will suggest
themselves to you:
Boys-Value Of Good Horses, Corn
Club, How to Make the Land Produce
Bigger Crops, Value of Good Beef Cat
tie, Value of Good Dairy Cattle, Value
of Improved Hogs, the Gasoline En-
CINE on the Farm, How Seed Selec-
ton Will Improve Our Crops, Crops
thai Increase the Fertility of the Soil.
Girls-What Can Be Done to I'M
prove Home Conveniences, Value of
Improved Poultry, Advantages OF
Screening Our Homes, Best Ways of
Canning Fruit, Social Life in Rural
Communities, What a Girl Must do to
Become a Good Honie-maker.
Patrons-Agriculture as Related to
General Prosperity, Importance of I'm
proved Farm Machinery, Value OF
Good Roads and How to Get Them,
Farming as an Opportunity for Young
Men.
Joke on Ranchers.
White Owl.-An amusing incident
of the recent election here was the