Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-02

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old Time Ginning.
Mr.. R. ]. Davis Of Bethel, does not
/ belong in the old man class. He ac-
nowledges to 60; but does not think
that Is necessarily old However, he
has long memory and he was using
it yesterday quite interestingly. Cot
ton ginning was the subject. He spoke
Of the fact that he had ginned some
thing over thousand bales with two
gins this year, and then went on to
compare the dollar bale he receives
for ginning with the IS a bale that the
old timers used to receive. THE late
A. II. Barnett once told me that the
regular price for ginning in the old
days was a toll Of one-twentieth of
the cotton. Also Mr. Barnett told me
that he has received IS a bale for gin
ming. In those days the gins were op-
Grated by horse power and four bales
day was about all one gin could do.
Shortly after the war the late A. H.
Adams paid me $3.50 in gold for gin
ming two bales Nowadays I can gin
about thirty-two bales a day with my
two gins. That is $32. It would look
like there should have been money in
ginning in the old days but do not
know that there was any more than
there is now. II so, the business has
never been anything to brag on"
Winthrop's Farmhouse School.
Complete freedom from restraint is
the lot Of the children who attend the
experimental rural schol at Winthrop
college, Rock Hill, as described by
Mrs. Hetty Browne, in a bulletin Of
the United States bureau of educa-
tion. There are, no seats or desks in
this school; no class-rooms; no rule
Of silence; but free activity guided
and directed by woman who is in
complete sympathy with country
children and country life. In this and
other respects observers have noted a
resen(P Plance to the Montessori schools
but rs Browne began her work sew
eral fars ago quite Independently Of
the deories Of Madame Montessori.
Furth&more, the Rock HILL school
makeAno claim to deliberate scien-
tific bFis; 1t is essentially an "exper-
imentA school, where 1t is hoped to
learn AZ actual experience what kind
Of a hool Is best adapted to rural
life. p school building is a farm
house, tn rooms fitted up as sitting
room," tchen and workshop. A large
veranda surrounding the house Is
used foi the midday meal, which is
served BY the pupils at the school and
for erlpurposes. There is plenty
of ground about the school, including
space foIa large garden. The garden
Is the ceSter about which instruction
revolves. From the study Of soil and
seed in tie winter time to the actual
planting, lcultivating. and harvesting
at the otter seasons, the garden re-
mains the center of the .children's in
terest and activity. Arithmetic, spell
ing, ETC., hre not taught as subjects,
but only Is the need for them arises
in connection with the activities Of
| home and harden. 2saNipR E19 xAEe
tden- -fnvv,-S. ritSmetic, and even ge-
ometry, bota of which are absorbed by
the children without effort. The max
ing Of towels for use at the school, nat
urally develops new words having to
do with sewing and many other
bers are given the children only as
the need for them develops, and then
with as little formality as possible.
The whole idT Is for the children to
find out things, If possible. without
being told. TIE children in this rural
school are not assigned to classes"
and periods" as in the traditional
| school. A visitor will see one group
working in the garden, another group
on the veranda sewing, another in the
kitchen at a cooking task, and still
another doing numbers or reading
with the teacher In her room. The aim
Of the Rock Hillschool is thus sum-
married by DR.. A p Bourland in an
introduction to the bureaus bulletin
1.-The resolve was to make school
that will train the farm children for
their future work in the home, on the
farm, and in the social life around
them. Hence we began frankly with
the activities Of tie farm. Th i'm
was not a cut-ani-dried plan but
rather a working dea to enab the
teacher to create a growing hey
for the development Of farm
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