The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

that Is of the greatest value to them. It is the essential, not-to-b forgotten tenth.
 Manual Work
 Tuition at Berry school for a term of
 nine months is $60 and 16 hours work each week. This week is assigned from the industrial department and is in ad- dition to that done in connection with agricultural and mechanical courses. It Is part of the required tuition quite as much in the money
 This industrial department is not one
 of the courses, but is the necessary work connected with the school. One of its objects is to utilize the students work l in order to reduce the expenses of the school Bookkeeping at Berry is very carefully done, and 1t is found that the cost for each boy for the past year was $2S5S5. The difference between this amount and the $60 tuition paid by each must be paid from the endowment and other funds of the school, and so it is necessary to make expenses as low as is practical Another purpose of this work is to give these boys opportunity to learn by practical experience the most profitable ways of doing all work con- nected with farming gardening, dairying, and house work on a farm.
 Earning Tuition
 Another object of this department Is to give work to the boys who must earn the money to pay their tuition be- lore they can attend school. These boys are given work at the school and are allowed SIG or SIS a month and board. 1 If they want to work six months they are credited with $10 a month and are
 paid the remainder of their wages; or 1 they may work four months. and receive | Credit for s15 month. In this way they soon have the $60 for their tuition 1 for the next year; and they may keep up one or more studies at night with the help of a teacher, if they desire. The school plant is open the year around | so few boys can earn their tuition each summer for the following school year. With the full time work of these boys and the 16 hours week of all other boys, the work is all done by the stu cents They learn how to do and how to value all the work connected w,th farming and housekeeping on a farm. Their own homes VII be different from the primitive farm home that is so crude in every way. The boys duties at the school range from sweeping to house building. They do all the work of the dining room. kitchen and bakery under the direction of a steward; and the boys | who want to specialize in this work to | become stewards are given special train- | ing.
 The boys have done their own wash l ing from the first, when they had only | big tubs and sad irons. Now they have a modern laundry and do all plain and | starched laundry work of the school. | They are directed by a skilled foreman. In the summer the 50 or more boys who | stay at the school put up several thou- | sand cans of fruits and vegetables for the schools use during the regular term. Another part of their work Is the care of the campus. When one recalls some
 of the unlovely homes seen in remote places 1t is a pleasure to think of the beauty with which the boys at Berry are surrounded. The grounds at Berry ere beautiful and are the work of the boys who year after year have come and
 gone at Berry. The approach from the
 main road is through a massive stone gateway and down a long avenue bor-
 dered on other side by coup,e row of eims. separated by hedges from the fields beyond. Wide stretches of green lawns, shaded by trees and frightened by flow CTS make 1t an especially beautiful place in summer.
 New students are usually given work on the campus. planting and cultivating trees and shrubbery and flowers. keeping tho grounds in order. repairing the wa ks, roads and the drainage system; or they are ass gned to certain duties in the din- ing room, kitchen or bakery This work tests the pupil't industry and reliability
 
 who do well in these industrial depart
 n1ents are given opportunity for special training n the agricultural and mechini- cal 3erartmsnts.
 Agricultural Department The agricultural department is planned I to include every form of farm industry suited to that section. The farm Is op- erated with the object of being of both educative and financial value. It Is con ducted on a large scale. with small plots fer experimental purposes, and 1t Is " sely operated under reai ret ther than ideal conditions. All the work at Berry school is done with a view to it's being of rractical use to the boys when they ore upon their own responsibility to make their living.
 Beside the farm. large truck garden furnishes the table with a variety of fresh vegetables. and With others for canning. The garden is equipped with