Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1912-06-21

the mattfess-shop. the shoemaking
shop, the printing ONCE. the tinsmith
shop. In all the 40 different trades and
industries. the boys are not only get
ting an occupational education but
they are deriving the inspiration thai
comes from making something to be
used. At Tuskesee II Is deemed as
important TO turn out inspired cob
blers and plumbers as inspired archi.
tects and landscape artists.
| All the students are required to take
academic studies, and the effort is
made to correlate all the studies with
the industrial training. In English
for example, the boys and girls write
essays on their work in the shops. AT
commencement time. Instead Of deliv'
ering orations on over the Alps" or
Standing on the Threshold Of Life
the graduating class shows how a
meal should be served or how horse
should be shod. II is a practical dem.
onstration Of what has been learned. a
| clinic on industrial education.
The students In the academic de.
partment are divided into day and
night classes, about one.third Of the
students being in the night school,
which is designed for those who are
unable to pay the small charges made
| by the day school. When a poor stu
dent arrives he works during the day
and studies at night, and whatever he
earns in excess Of his board is placed
to his credit in the bank. AS soon as
he has saved enough he enters the day
school. The pupils in the day school
attend classroom exercises three days
week, and the other three days they
spend in the shops. The expenses Of
day students above the cost of cloth
ing and what can be earned is about
$40 or $50 for the nine months term
Many Of the pupils earn all their ex.
penscs. The teaching In the academic
department, which Is about as ad-
vanced In work as the second year Of
northern high school minus the Ian
guages, Is done by faculty Of so COL
lege graduates, many Of them from
leading universities Of the country
The male pupils form two battalions,
containing the night students, the 9th
er of five companies of 80 men each
made up from the day students. Drills
and inspections take place every day
in the week, the day students being
divided into two squads, which drill on
alternate days. An officers court pass
es judgment upon all breaches of dis
cipline not serious enough to be re-
ferred to the principal.
The industries are grouped into
three departments, the school Of agri-
culture, the industries for girls and
the department of mechanical indus
tries. The courses in agriculture are
given in Milbank hall, modern build
ing erected in 1909 at cost Of $26,000
Farming was the first industry started
at the institute, and the school farm
In thirty years has grown until 1t en-
braces 1900 acres. OF this eighty
acres form truck garden on which is
raised produce for the school, eighty
acres constitute an orchard, $40 acres
form the tract for general farming.
while 1900 acres comprise an area
given ove- to pastures and woodland.
The dairy herd contains 227 head
Of cattle, breeders, yearlings and
calves, with los mich cows lat the
pail" The farm also has 562 hogs,
and 145 horses, mules and colts, while
the poultry yard contains 5000 fowls.
The farm work is carried on by 22S
students, 40 hired men and IS instruc.
tors.
Last year 632 tons of ensilage, H.
900 bushels of sweet potatStes. $500
bushels Of corn and $3.50 bushels Of
oats were grown on the general farm.
while the truck garden yielded lis, 453
pounds Of greens, 1,116 dozen lunches
of lettuce, 465 bushels of onions, 1876
watermelons, 1853 bushels of beans, SO
bushels of beets, 783 bushels OF toma-
toes, 321 bushels of rutabagas, $3.50
dozen ears Of green corn, 1904 melons
and cantaloupes, 81 bushels of white
potatoes and 258 bushels Of peas-this
enumeration being given as an indi-
cation of the variety Of the table at
Tuskegee and the manner In which
the pupils are being saturated in one
of the many ideas of Tuskegee that
one indication Of civilization is va
riety Of food products.
Zone of Gods objects in surround
ing US with vegetables, with grain, Der
ries and flowers" says Booker Wash
ington, lis to help US to make our
bodies better fitted for the uses of
life, to make our bodies stronger, to
make them more healthful. When l
go to church and hear people preach
for hours on all kinds Of subjects, es-
pecially in country districts, where the
soil is fitted for growing all kinds of
vegetables, all kinds of fowl. how
much ! wish the minister would take
few hours and teach the people how
to fill their bodies with some of the
beautiful things with which nature has
surrounded them"
THE BEST scAREcRoW.