The leader-enterprise. [volume] (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1912-1915, 1913-08-19
THAT FARMER BOY.

Notice he Always says, II CAN teact
him at home" Have you ever hearc
him say, II WILL teach my boy a
home?" It goes without saying. thai
a successful farmer CAN teach his sor
a great many things at home-things
that are worth while to the farmer Of
the next generation-BUT, DOES
He? He shows the boy HOW to dc
a piece of work now and then. Does
he do this FIR the BOYS saae, or fol
the WORK s sake? Isn't n true that
the fathers instructions stop right
where the boys work begins to be sat
isfactory? When boy is instructed
for his own sake he must not only be
shown that HOW but the WHY. The
average parent who teaches his son
farming at home usually quits it at the
HOW The WHY is the science of the
thing, and usually requires great
deal of time, patience, and hard study
This part of the training often calls
for a great deal of research work, ap-
paratus not found in the home, and the
aid of. specialist. Are boys in other
professions trained at home? Don't
you believe that the successful farmer
of this day needs as much training as
does the man in any of the other pro-
fessions? Did you ever try to enum-
crate the things that the successful
farmer should know? Part of that list
would look like this:
lie should know how to: Clear
lands, drain swamps, make concrete
fence posts, build fences, build bridges.
lay brick and stone, build sanitary
homes, bore well, put up a pump.
build a water tower, put in an under
ground reservoir, put up windmill,
construct sanitary barns and sheds.
paint, glaze windows, plaster, ,calci-
mine, put in electric wiring, water
pipe, sewerage, chop wood, churn,
make hay. milk a cow, care for and
market dairy products, feed cows,
break a colt, pillow mule, butcher a
steer, prepare lands, select seed, sow,
NOW, reap, thresh, and winnow grain,
how to make syrup, cure ham. and
bacon, repair shoes. make harness. fix
the telephone. make simple tools,
build concrete floors, write q note,
buildea concrete wall, select seed. i'm
prove the soils, pillow, fertilize, harrow
plant, cultivate, harvest, market farm
products, judge live stock, and i'm
prove the breeds of both plants and
He must know; soils, fertil
izers and vegetable matter as related
to-: Moisture, capillarity, osmosis, re-
tention of plant food, oxidation of
plant food, He must know insects, in
secticides, bugs, birds, and beasts, at
sight. q He must understand lameness
in mule, or horse, tick fever in cat
tie, tuberculosis in milk cows, cholera
in hogs, and how to prevent these dis
eases as we'll as how to treat these in
fected animals. He must not be ignor-
ant Of the best methods of preventing
such diseases among his own species
as, malaria, typhoid, hookworm, diph-
liberia, tuberculosis. He must know
poisonous weeds and insects, poison
Gus drugs and their antidotes.
He must know how to plant, grow,
prune, bud, and graft fruit trees. He
must know how to operate and repair:
mowers, binders, harvest
ers, threshing~ machines, gasoline en-.
gines, pumps, hydraulic rams, cream
separators. wagons, buggies, wheel
oarrows, grain drills, hayrakes and au-
He must be an adept at
writing notes, deeds, wills, mortgages.
bills of lading, invoices,
etc. In short, he must know, English.
history, civics, carpentry, arithmetic.
bricklaying. business law, physiology.
hygiene, medicine, blacksmithing, den
Iistry, literature, plumbing, painting.
surgery, plastering, chemis-
try, physics, engineering of all kinds.
must know how to shave himself and
make a telling speech at town meet.
ing:
Is this too much for a boy to know
in order to be an independent farmer
in his day? Don't you think it would
be hard task for a father to give
his boy a working knowledge of the
things noted above, even If he had
else to do?
Did you know that boy who at
tends the Third District A. & NJ,
school four years, and really applies
goes away from this institu-
ton with a working knowledge of all
the things enumerated above. ano
enough rhetoric, algebra, geometry,
and other high school train
ing to enter him in the University OF
Georgia without examination This in
stitution is in the business of training
farmer boys. She<is prepared to dc
this. Did you know that only cost Of
school here is board and
clothes? Did you know that board ID
enly $500 a month? For further in.
formation write to }. M. Collun,
Ga
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