Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-07-03
Cooperative Concern In Copenhagen.
WHY DENMARK PRODUCES BEST BUTTER BACON AND EGGS

His teachers were mature, well-trained
men of good intellectual ability, we'll
paid. and, in most cases, community
leaders and organizers.
From fourteen to eighteen is an age
when Danish boys and girls are grow
Ing physically and working at prac-
tical things, for the young Dane can
not enter the folk high school until he
is eighteen.
Farm Apprenticeship.
The prospective farmer, however,
has not stopped his educative proc
esses during this period. There is in
Denmark a recognized system Of farm
apprenticeship for the future farmer.
1t Is common practise here for the
father who wishes his son to become
farmer to put him for a period Of
three years upon some of the accredit-
ed model farms Of the country. Gen.
orally he stays on one farm for one
year. moving on to second and then
a third in order that he may get diff.
ferent and broader points of view and
may see agriculture specialized along
different lines upon the different farms.
On these farms he is given an oppor-
tunity to learn, but for the most part
his time is spent in hard labor. He
learns to farm by farming.
Folk Schools and Patriotism.
After his apprenticeship is complet.
cd ha Unao for ~ laoet m fa,v ,xan.l. .
to one Of the folk high schools, which
arc in the broadest sense schools OF
patriotism. Inspiring lectures are
used for instruction more widely than
are text books. The history and liter.
ature OF the country is the theme OF
many an hour. Every class is opened
with q song, either patriotic or re.
ligious. and each day extensive read
ings upon patriotic and religious topics
are given. Practical political economy
and sociology are included In the daily
work. No one under eighteen may at
tend these folk high schools, but many
an older man or woman In later life
finds there that for which there was
no opportunity In youth. The schools
are co-educational, but are co-educa
tional In thoroughly segregated
way. for the men attend in winter and
the women only in the summer
months.
These schools are privately owned
and not absolutely free. The cost oI
i've months instruction and board fol
the men for the winter months II
about s55. while the women. who gen
orally attend these schools in summer
pay only about $50 for three months
instruction. including board and lodg
ing. Small as these fees seem to be
the state has various ways OF re
ducing the fees. especially for the SOM
and daughters OF the small holders
The total number OF students In thes,
summer and winter schools the las
few years has never been less thai
ten thousand.
University Extension.
These folk high schools have, toe
an extension form OF education some
what similar to the university exten
sion courses given by some Of ou
American colleges. The high schoo
professors frequently 20 out 10 tn
schoolhouses for popular lectures upo
history and literature. and upon soc
illogical subjects. Generally a littl
association is formed for the course O
from six to ten lectures. Possibly on
crona (twenty.seven cents) for th
year Is charged. or there may be
charge Of twenty ora flour cents) 70
each lecture. Hero at the high schoc
building they also hold In the fall
, special community meeting for thre
or four days during which three lie,
! lures per day on subjects similar I
those taught In the school are giver
/ and in addition men OF learning or r,
: nown from the outside are brought II
, At this folk school the young farm
er who has had his common scho,
, training. with all its contact with III
! realities OF life. and who has learne
J. In three years apprenticeship how |
Q farm. has an opportunity TO learn no
}. TO be n citizen and a patriot. But b
1 has not yet completed his school worl
J. Upon the farm ho has learned how
h do things. He has yet TO learn VIII,
d So he goes to an agricultural COLES
o and learns the theoretical and sclei
/. tlnc why which is back OF the pra
teal how. This Ia the story OF De
" marks farmer in the making. throue