The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
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FARM PRoB\EMs.
Great State Project About 10
Be Launched.
GIRLS ARE To keep HOUSE
Elaborate System of Eduos,o~ Soon
to Be Tried Out on Long ls.>o Quite
as Ambitious an Underts , as Any
of tho Kind Ever AttemgIsd I'D In
cIudes Unique Features.

as Ambitious an Underts r.. as Any
of the Kind Ever AttemgIeu I'D In
cIudes Unique Features.
Some time in April grcat group or
buildings will begin going up o. a
tract Of land near Farmingdale \. l..
to be owned by TIE state Of Wv
York, and here yqung men viii >
taught practical and. scientific fa 4.
ing. while young women will be tr2 n
ed as housewives Trey will lie IN
how to cook.-sew, take care or the
farm home and to economize. At tho
end of four years they will corae out
able to do anythins and save any
problem likely to confront thu Roman
in the home.
This state school will rai lk with the
most elaborate undertakings, of It's kind
and will have various distiHss assssk
features.
The institution will bear officially
the title of the New York Stale School
Of Agriculture on Long Island, 1t will
be conducted under the dire ion Of
Albert A. Johnson, director tas Mir
waukee County School OF culture
at Wauwatosa.
81 do pot think it Is poSs.2ie to
teach farming without farm says
Mr.. Johnson in the New York Times
I'VE have been provided with 8 lap
oratory Of ALMOST 800 acres, On which
the students will do practically all the
work. As for The girls and young we.
men, we do not think it possible TO
teach them homemalsing without
home to experiment with, sand sE,a-
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 big octagon, which has
band stand in the center The big
gest structure will be the administers
ton building, facing the entrance. but
is on the opposite side of the octag0n.
Besides this, the educational groun WILL
consist Of the agriculture, ~thGg agron~
omy, the science and the domestic SCI
ence buildings. the gymnasidnn.> the
greenhouse, the library and the store
Just back of these buildings will b
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 meehanr
les. poultry and stock judging build
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 barn
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 dormitories and their
refectory. There will be ten dormi-
tories. each accommodating from fifty
to seventy boys. Near by will be q
small hospital with nurse in charge.
who will also teach nursing to the
girls.
On the right Of the educational g3eup
will be thirty-fve or forty girls cot
tages, costing about $4,000 apiece.
They will contain eight rooms, nd
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
much of it In their third and fourth
years will be in the cottages. They
Will be marked each day on the way
they keep house.
The store will be located near their
quarters. and there they will get their
training In buying. Then they will
have to prepare their food. After a
little time the senior girl In each house
will be responsible for it. and during
the course each girl will have had one
years experience in actual charge OF
house.
For each cottage there will be fiow-
er ana vegetable gardens, and the girls
VIII be expected to take care of these.
Each house will be different from the
rest and the whole group will be sort
OF restricted village, the houses being
mostly OF a bungalow type.
Inc eventual capacity of the school
VIII be 1000 students. Sessions will
take place during the twelve months
of the year.