Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-09-03
FARM LIFE SCHOOLS COME IN
FOR WARM WORDS OF PRAISE
Local Farm School Advocates Inter-
ested to Know That Schools In N.
G.. and Ga. Are Success.

C. and Ga. Are q Success.
The advocates of Henderson
County Farm Life School in accord
ance with the plans set out by DR.. J.
Y. Joyner in his address at Mills River
Friday, will be interested in the fol-
lowing words of praise for similar
schools in North Carolina and Geor-
gia:
Mr.. Thomas d. Warren, chairman of
the Craven county board of education,
and chairman of the State Democratic
Executive Committee, was in the city
yesterday on business. In converse
ton with News and Observer report
or he stated that the educational work
of the county is making most satisfac-
tory progress along all lines, that this
year has been the best educational
year in the history of the county, that
the educational outlook is most hope
fnl, but that the most hopeful and en-
ecuraging and far-reaching single ed
Irrational influence in the county just
row is the Craven county Farm-iife
school located at Vanceboro.
He says that the school has been in
operation only one year. 1t was the
first school to be established in the
State under the county farm-life school
law.
The school is we'll equipped, with ex-
cellent buildings, laboratories, dormi-
tories, barns, and a farm of 100 acres.
1t is already revolutionizing agricul-
tural and educational conditions in the
entire half of the county in which it
is located and is rapidly extending its
influence into all the balance of the
county.
There is already a marked improve
ment, declares Mr.. Warren, in meth
DDS of farming, in interest in farming
end in enthusiasm for it among the
ccutry people. The schools moral and
social influence, especially Id the sec
ton in which it is located, has also
teen very marked even in one year.
The man in charge OF it seems to be
the right man in the right place. The
school under his management is di-
recting the work to meet the practi-
cal needs of the farmers in Craven
county and to improve the conditions
Of country life in that county, dealing
with them as they exist. In a word.
its work is intensely practical and has
already proved popular, inspiring, and
uplifting.
Mr.. Warren expresses the hope that
similar schools may be established in
the near future in all sections OF
North Carolina.
1t has been just six years since the
district agricultural schools of Geor-
gia were established, and during that
time nearly 5000 rural boys and girls
have had the excellent training Of
these schools. These Institutes have
cost the state practically nothing; in
most instances the ground and the
larger number of buildings and equip
ment were furnished by the counties
in which the schools are located The
boys and girls do the work on the
farm, and in a good many instances
students work their way through the
schools by doing more work than is
required of them. The tuition is free,
and the board is very small, each stu
dent paying his share.
OF the IL schools, every one of them
has made good. From year to year
they have added new pupils, and this
year a number Of students had to be
turned away from some of the schools
or account of lack of acconlmoda-
ton. Some of the schools are in need
OF larger and better dormitories, and it
is believed that these will be furnish
ed them, according to Orange Judd
Southern Farming. -. 8
The boys are taught how to do all
kinds of work on the farm, to give
the proper attention to live stock,
dairying, and any other subject that
might come up on the farm; how to
make all the necessities that could be
made at a farm shop, and are given
practical experience in this work.
The girls are taught domestic science,
gardening, and, in fact, so much tnat
it would be an easy matter to man
age a farm themselves. In most
cases the students go back to their
homes, carrying with them and put
ting into practice the methods they
have been taught, exerting a wide IN
fiuence for better agricultural condi-
tions in their immediate communities.
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