Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-02
BILL PROVIDES
 SCHOOL COURSE
Agriculture to Be included in the Curriculum
 in Arizona
 Institutions
WORSELEY HAS BILL

At a meeting Of the citizens and the Pima county representative in the state legislature held at the Chamber Of commerce last night to consider a bill asking the state legislature to make appropriations for the establish ment of department of agriculture in connection with the seperal hign schools in the state. rough draft of the bill. as drawn by Senator Wor- sley was read The measure as drawn while not complete was exhaus- tive. and will be put into shape at a meeting Of the committee at the of flee of President Wilde at the Uni yersity Monday, says the Arizona Star.
 Reports from the various members of the committee, who had been com missioned to find out how represent atiyes and senators of the~state at large, felt on the question of segre- gation. were read. Reliable informa- ton from the majority of state ser. ators said they were opposed to any segregation of the university, and the establishment of any place other than Tucson
 The resolutions of the Prescott chamber of commerce were read. The resolutions opposed segregating the university. They were received with applause by the meeting.
 Committee reported that the peti- tiOn sent out for the preservation Of the university as it is now, had attain ed very wide and influential list of signatures throughout the state
 The people of the northern part of the state were one for the non-segre- gation Of the university, but they wanted more service rendered from it.
 It was reported that Dr. Wilde's in- formation as to why the U. of A. should not be divided was just of the press and could be had to inclose in letters to citizens over the state.
 After much discussion the Worsley bill for the establishment or ag-icul- tural instruction in the high school was taken up, and extensively dis cussed.
 The bill provides for the creation and establishment of a course of agri- culture and domestic science in high schools, and also graded schools if thought advisory. These departments would be established whenever the dean of the Agricultural department of the University and the state super intendent of public instruction thought it necessary, and annually en- Gowed wigh $2OO 900 maintainance. A committee consisting of Professors Forbes and Clothier and Senators Hughes and Worsley. will meet Mon day and draft the final bill It is to be modelled in part upon the Putnam act of Minnesota for 1911.
 Senator Worsley gave a very com ?rehen.5ivp view of just what the state ought to do in the way of aid ing the farmer. He said, in part that the farmer wastes resources of the earth in abundance. Agriculture is the foundation of our entire state. Yet the farmer knows usually little of the science of the soil. But the lawyer or doctor must pass exam ination before he is allowed to enter his profession. showing that he is proficient An absurd state of af- fairs so far as the farmer is concern ed
 Professor Forbes upon inquiry said that within two years 400. 900 acres Of land would be under cultivation in Arizona Whereupon MT. Nets said that with the increase of a dollar an acre even, accrueing from the scienti. fic exploitation of the lands, that the state with s400,000 derived therefrom