Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-04-16
SCHoOL.EED II ALL
FARM PROBLEMS
Great State Project About Ito
Be Launched.
GIRLS ARE TO KEEP HOUSE

Elaborate System of Education Soon
to Be Tried Out on Long Island Quite
of the Kind Ever Attempted and In
cludes Unique Features. ...
Some time in April Il great group of
buildings will begin going up on a
tract Of land near F~armingdale, n. Y,
to be owned by the state Of New
York, and here young men will be
taught practical and scientific farm
ing, while young women will be train
ed as housewives. They will learn
how to cook, sew, take care of the
farm home and to economic. At the
end of foul years they will come out
able to do anything and solve any
problem likely to confront the woman
IL the home.
This state school will rank with the
most elaborate undertakings Of its kind
and will have various distinguishing
features.
The institution will bear officially
the title of the New York State School
of Agriculture on Long Island. 1t will
be conducted under the direction Of
Albert A. Johnson, director Of the Mil
waukee County School of Agriculture
at Wauwatosa.
Il do not think it is possible to
teach farming without a farm says
Mr.. johnson in the New York Times.
I'VE have been provided with a lab
oratory of almost 300 acres, on which
the students will do practically all the
work. AS for the girls and young wo-
men, we do not think it possible to
teach them homemaking without q
home to experiment with, and such
will be provided"
How Farm Will Be Laid Out.
The central part of the farm, COM
prising about sixty acres, will contain
the buildings. of which over seventy
five are projected. The relation of one
structure to another has been carefully
studied.
The grounds of this central group
center about a big octagon, which has
a band stand in the center. The big
gest structure will be the adminiStra-
ton building. facing the entrance, but
is on the opposite side of the octagon.
Besides this. the educational group will
consist of the agriculture, the agron-
omy, the science and the domestic sci
ence buildings, the gymnasium. the
greenhouse. the library and the store.
Just back Of these buildings will be
the residences of the director and the
professors. In the rear of the educa-
tional group will be the farm group.
consisting Of machinery, farm mechan-
ings. horse barn, COW barn, storage
barn and power house.
The COW barns will contain forty
COWS, which will not only produce milk
and butter for the school. but will be
used for breeding. The horse Darn
will contain from ten to fifteen horses.
Each boy will learn to drive. feed.
clean and care for horses. and the lat
ter will be used for judging. In the
poultry building. which has big yards
behind it. will be studied all the phases
Of poultry raising.
To the left Of the educational group
will be the boys d%ormitories and their
r%efectory. There will be ten dormi-
tories, each accommodating from fifty
to seventy boys. Near by will be Il
small hospital with a nurse in charge.
who will also teach nursing to the
girls.
On the right of the educational group
will be %thirty-five or forty girls cot
tages. costing about $4,000 apiece.
They will contain eight rooms. and
there will be six or eight girls in each
house.
Daily Mark For Housekeeping.
The girls will get their first training
in the domestic science building. but