The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-03
FARM LIFE SCHOOLS
s.sn IN NORTH CAROLINA
BY HENRY ARNOLD DENNIS.

NAV be reduced to ten acres upon
the recommendation OF the board OF
trustees and presentation OF Satisfac-
tory reasons therefor. The entre
must be approved and ac-
cepted, after inspection. by the State
SUPERINTENDENT of Public instruction.
All buildings must be located on the
farm, and must be constructed IN &C
cordance with plans approved by the
State superintendent Of Public In
structiOn, except that a suitable and
properly equipped chOol building al
ready constructed. though not located
on the farm, may be accepted as part
Of the equipment. if located within
reasonable and convenient distances
thereof.
The aim Of the farm-life school is,
| quoting from Dr.. j. Y. Joyner:
ITO prepare boys for agricultural
pursuits and farm-life and to pre-
pare girls for home-making and
housekeeping on the farm; to conduct
AGRICULTURAL and farm-life demOnstra-
ton and extension work throughout
the county, in cooperation with the
! State and National Departments OF
| Agriculture and the State College OF
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; to
hold township and district meetings
for the armer and farmers wives in
all parts Of the county from time to
lime; to cooperate with the county
superintendent Of public instruction
and the public and the public school
teachers in stimulating, directing, and
supervising farm-life work in the pub
lie high schools and elementary
schools, and in providing instruction
in such work for the teachers through
the County Teachers Association and
through special short courses Of study
for public school teachers; 10 provide
also, at said school short courses Of
study in farm-life subjects for adult
farmers and their wives, to hold
at the school county meetings for
farmers and their wives for instruc-
ton and demonstration work from
time to time
Again DIR. JOyner is quoted to get ar
idea of some OF the benefits to accrue
from the farm-life schools, as fol
r lows:
THE county farm-life school would
become an intellectual, industrial, and
agricultural dynamo for the Whole
county. The instruction and training
8 of scores Of country boys and girl:
p annually in the best methods Of farm.
Q ~, dairying, orcharding, stock judg
n ing and stock raising. the handling
and marketing of crops, cooking, sew
ing, and other subjects pertaining t,
housekeeping and home-making O,
the farm, would send them back t,
> the farm prepared to mak farming
more profitable, farm life more livable
4 farm homes more comfortable an
= more beautiful. These in their vari
a Gus communities would becOm
sources of inspiration and dissemina
!, tors Of agricultural information an,
objective demonstration for thei
~neighbOrs, thereby greatly aiding i
;. the Improvement Of agricultural con
ditions OF the entire county and i
increasing the wealth, the taXabl
values Of all property, and the ger
eral prosperity and progress of tn
county and the State. In a word, tn
boys trained in such d school woul
become, in their communities, elC
m quent apostles and living examples {
- better and more profitable farmin,
and the girls SO trained would be
n come, in their homes, living epistl.
known and read of all the sweeete:
nf and finest of all arts, the art of mai
20 ing a comfortable and beautiful hon
in the best environment in the worl
no for such a home-the very heart
=, nature.
va Such a school, in the second plac
M could and would, through its facul
carry OF most valuable extension ar
in demonstration work mong the farm
ed ers and their wives in all parts Of Il
w county, meeting with them from tin
of to time in their communities for il
struction and demonstration in Z
TO things pertaining to their farm Ii
he and work, in this way carrying
20 them the new truth and the new high
and pointing them to the better We
nv From time to time, these farmers al
20, their wives could and would be gat
&C. cred about the school for inStructio
TOO for inspiration, for social intercour:
for organization and cooperation"
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