Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-11-26
nan TT TAKES TO ESTABLISH
JEFFERSON FARM LIFE SCHOOL.
,,,r # Would be Profitable Institution
VIZ paving Is Per Cent on Invest
ment: Working Plans.

mPuIS NUIhAuS 11McS
Drof W. H. Gale on request, has fur
.;abed rhe Democrat a thoughtful con-
hiSi N:hn+ion on the proposed farm life
.hooI for Henderson county.
professor Gale has given consider
.,lo study to this question and has
SS SSTocated school of this kind for
FEonderson county, therefore his arti-
IN covers the ground thoroughly and
Cir inon this will soon become a live
;psne with the voters, it is an oppor-
+~np time for them to give the sub
;sct careful consideration.
professor Gales article follows:
IN the 3rd day of March, 1911, the
General Assembly of North Carolina
ratifed an act establishing in each
oo|nty complying with its provisions,
school to be known as a County
T.rm-Iife School" for the training and
rronaration Of the boys and girls of
tbp county for farm-life and home
making.
The aim of the Farm-life School is
n nrepare boys for agricultural pur-
srts and farm-life, and to prepare
GIRLS for home-making and house,
, Tooninr on the farm. The course of
etr5y is subject to the appreciation of
tbe.1rate superintendent of Public In
etrEction and an advisory board on
Fsrm-Iffa Schools, and shall include
PRACTICAL work on the farm by the
iovs ana practical work in all sub
iacts relating to housekeeping and
home making by the girls.
The school shall be located in the
tovnship or townships offering the
largest financial inducement for
maintenance and equipment, provided,
however. that it shall not be located
within town of more than one thou
sand inhabitants, nor within two
miles of a town of more than five
thousand inhabitants.
For the maintenance of the Farm
life school, the county, township o.
district or all combined, in which it
is located, shall provide annually by
taxation or otherwise, not less than
$500. and shall provide by bond
issue, the following equipment: A
school building suited to the require
ments of the subjects to be taught, q
dormitory with accommodations for
+ twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls;
barn and dairy with equipment and
t7 enty-five acres Of land suited to ag-
r:culture. There will be maintained
in connection with the Farm-life
school a regular State High School
CT four grades, for which the county
contributes $500 and the State $500.
Upon the written request of the
county board of education of any
county, the board of county commits
sOners may call an election in the
county according to the laws govern
ing elections in the county, provided,
however, a new registration shall be
ordered for that election, the regular
legal notice being required. Those
favoring the levying and collection of
such tax for said purpose shall vote
a ballot which shall be written or
printed the words For County Farm
lie School,; and those opposed shall
vote ballot on which shall be writ
ter or printed the words Against
County Farm-life School,"
If those favoring the act are in a.
naJority the bonds shall be issued and
sold, and the school built and equip
LED. If it is lost in the county cleo
uCn, by the written petition of the
voters of a township an election may
De called for that townhsip, the same
dS IN the county election, and If a
majority Of the votes is for the Farm
Lie school, that township may sell
OondS, build and equip the school and
receive the benefits of the same as If
Lao been done by the entire county, the
M"nShlp so providing such shall have
'Ie privilege of collecting tuition
vldfgeS from pupils residing without
the township
Inc amount offered as an induce
Ient to locate the school in any town
SIlp, as stated in the third paragraph,
SLall be deducted from the amount to
W "e provided from the county, so that
suV Total amount expended for build
.IsS and equipment shall not be more
Inan $25 900.
"hen these provisions shall have
DeVn complied with, the State treas
Sa. S5e[ shall issue his warrant for
sL''VV to the county treasurer Who
pudiI De the treasurer of the Farm-life
W.. rtnOOi without charges for his SER
~ t'eS' H' TO he used for the maintenance
me school. This amount added to
81 II Io6" 6$z'oo0 provided by special tax and
st, t9oo TO be had from the county and
g;o1 tfa'e Tor the maintenance of the State
r1,sn rusn school gives a total of $4,000 am
raoNy for the maintenance of the
+Srm-ifc school.
4, 'Ot this $4,000 not more than $685.
% viii have to be provided, which is
tbo s'eaf income of 16 2-3 per cent on
hen IL, Investment, to say nothing of the
aS 1e"tS 10 be derived from the school
" - tne present valuation of proper
conI5 I henderson county, this amount
nna% u Oe AIDED to our school fund an
nonaS nlS without making our school tax
tbst tnan 80 per cent of the amount
ArottM tMcDowell county is now paying.
oro Otner fact of importance is, that we
Arcno"o "orth $l66 per capita more than
smonH.eH county, pay so per cent the
tbot OF school tax on the $1,000