St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1914-02-28


tied with vir.le, prosperous people
and cities will spring up as # b.
magic" God made the country ant
man made the town. The country c:,l
get along without the town, ever
though poorly. but the town canno
get along without the country.
Since both country and town !:
each essential to the prosperity o1
the other, it is the only sane policy
that the two maintain cord al and
helpful relations. There is no sense
of any other attitude by ether thar
an attitude of friendliness, cord ali
ty and good will. The two sections
must go hand in hand. each helping
the other. or not go very far at all
it is unfortunate when ty bu!lGf
up a political mach ne to control the
politics of the state for the self-en-
r.chment of the few leaders as has
been charged to New York and New
Orleans
The school has its mission wider
than merely instructing the children
in the school room. In fact that fea-
ture OF Is work is gong to be only
part of the future service the schoo
must render. That is why salaries
must be paid that will get men anu
women capable of tn larger leader
ship, this larger service. You ask,
why the school takes the lead II tie
velOpment, of civic and social bet
terment? The answer is, there is
no other system, no other agency to
do tn work. This work has to be
done. aud has the school been select
ed to do it? No: the school has as
sumed this work. 1t has annexed
it. It did 30. tssca auses no other force
was do ng it, because no other force
in existence can do it. Other forces,
men in commercial activities, are rec
ogniz:ng these facts and are 10 ming
in with the school people in accom-
plish ng the work to be done. It
them the school extends a weiconie
hand. The school needs all the as
sistance it can get. The field is ripe
unto the harvest, the laborers are
few.
Let us notice some few of the new
duties that the school has recently
assumed. 1t is claimed that it was
pract cally impossible to organize the
farmers of the great northern states
as Ohio. Indiana and II nOis, into an,
cooperative associations Men with
a vision saw that there were wastes
IN agricultural methods and cror
marketing. But the farmers were
proof to plead ng. Then the newer
methods were begun on a small way
IN the publ c schools. Club work was
instituted; the Ieaven worked, ana
nnumerable organizations for coop
Grafton among the farmers resulted.
Corn Club" Smith of Mississippi was
only an humble county superintend-
ent of Holmes county. The writer
used to teach in an adjo.n ng county.
and knows. Mr.. Smith personally and
well. He was and even now is a
quiet unassum1ng man. But he had
a vision. He introduced the corn
clubs into his county, state and ma
tion. A little thing you say. Yes.
but today thousands of boys are ap-
plying sc entific methods to their
acres. Rich harvests are y ielded.
It is claimed tnat these boys In Lou
is ana increased the corn yield over
a million bushels last year. Then
the girls got busy. Nearly every
good school in the state now main
ia MS one or more of these clubs
among the pupils. Millions of dol
lars for the southern states is the re-
suit.
But this is just part. Parents
who never read q bulletin in the
lives and who thought agricultural
journals bosh got to reading and
learning. Improved mach merry and
improved methods are suppressed ng
he old.
The club work has been introduced
just this year IN St. Tammany. Al
ready the results are highly CRAFTY
ing. The value of the products that
Will be grown by the club memDer..
alone VIII likely approach $4,000.
A number of demonstration farms
are being run after governmental di-
rect.ons. Figure out the per cent
profit on Mr.. Lew s. services. But
this work is just in its infancy.
Watch it grow.
The next duty assumed by the
school 8 that of sanitation and
health. The health board may de-
pend upon the officers for the en-
forcement of sanitary laws, but it
looks to the public school for educa-
tion along sanitary lines. And the
motto of the health board "Educa-
tion Is Better Than Leg slat on" N
matters Of sanitation and health.
Health exercises are held, bulletins
distr .buted, and the children get new
ideas Of right living. Some Of these
are, enforced at home. listen to- a
b ;gh school student IN North Louis
ana: Il never would have window
up in my room. Father always told
us not to. But since / heard Mss