St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1916-01-29
GATHERING OF SUP PERM OF
EDUCATION OF DIFF FER Vt PARISHES
HEADED BY.STATE S(PT. !. H. HARRIS
St. Tamany Parish Chosen Because of the
Made Consolidated Schools Lyon
to Make Education Fit the People the Section
Talsheek and Central Schools Chosen inspection.

allSheek and
The holding of convention OF
parish superintendents at Covington
is compliment to St. Tammany par.
ish and an acknowledgment of the
excellent results that have been OBJ
tained by the systematic and pro-
gressive course pursued by Supt.
Lyon. It is not claimed that St.
Tammany parish is the farthest ad-
vanced in its system Of rural school
work, but the rapidity with which 1t
has progressed by consolidation OF
schools and the adoption OF new
thought in thu education of the
rural school pupil for the position
he or she may be called upon to fl
is SO prominent in contrast with
the old and the new as to make the
lesson remarkably impressive. The
old and the new school houses, but
year or two apart, stand as ex-
amples. The school attendance and
the manifest interest of teacher and
pupil are linked with the evidence
Of better results.
The schools chosen for demon
strating the improvement made are
the Talisheek and the Central. in
the sixth ward, because these two
schools are best equipped for carry
on improved rural school work. in
cluding agricultural and domestic
science teaching. Hot beds have
been prepared for garden work. The
domestic science departments have
cases of carpenter tools, good sew
ing machines. oil stoves, libraries
with Encyclopedias, works on agri-
culture, bulletins issued by the U. 8.
Government and the State, sections
OF the various trees showing the
growth, grain and texture OF wood:
cabinets of spices and material used
in cooking; microscope for examina-
tion OF insects or fibers or any pro-
duct under discussion: engravings IL
lustrating historical incidents. The
Central school has very interesting
exhibit Of products from corn, such
as oil. sugar and feed stuns, by the
American Manufacturing Association
Of Chicago, and among the library
books are such as Industrial Evolu-
tion Of the United States. by Carroll
D. Wright; Principles of Agricul-
ture, by Bailey; General Science, by
Clark; Good Housekeeping, etc.
Each .es these schools have both
the National Air Heaters of the Ex-
celsior Stove Mfg. Co., and the Smith
System Of Heating, which as we'll as
giving an evenly regulated tempera-
ture insure proper ventilation. They
also have the improved adjustible
steel desks.
Both achOols also teach the diner
ent parts OF the beef and their food
valte, using the Kauffman-Latimer
Be@9 Chart, and teach farm account
inS, 0ost AM p oft, using the Farm
erf1 Record, furnished by the st.
T30nany Bank & Trust Co. Also a
Study Of soils and divisions of the
nhxzGh from q parish map. In fact,
Wh1ae the work may be said to be in
~ Infancy there is good founda
tion for further advancement, and
the ceading table furnishes newspa-
per0, magazines and other literature
of interest to the pupils.
The Talisheek school has eighty
ssyen pupils. the teachers being
Prof. p. A. Ross, principal: Miss Ella
Paine. graduate of NewcOmb College
Domestic Science Department, and
E1(ieu Cora Abel. Miss Paine is teach
a >nx the pupils to cut patterns from
and do sewing that l:
REQUIRED in the household.
The Talisheek two-roOm school
Auilding was built two years ago at
4 cost of $1575, and since then
Room for domestic science has been
added at q cost of 1899. The Cen
NAL school was also built two years
/ 10 ct q cost Of $1675, and the add
Rh third room cost $S99. The Au-
dubon two-room school house cost
1880. The site donated by A. D.
Erawf0rd.
81 Site of 'Talisheek school was do
1Ated by Thomas & Parker.
sA Trustees: Warren Thomas, Wal
tor Parker, Claude Bilbo. H. @.
narker paris board member.
Prof. S. L. Taylor is principal OF
the Central School. Miss Marcia
Dawes, who is a Tulane graduate and
who has had wide experience in the
teaching of domestic science. would
make friend Of any man through
tho proverbial process of feeding him
VIII her own cooking. she Is teach
" this art Miss Annie Smith,
saacher Of sewing, is graduate of
Ne Southwestern Industrial 1nstt- |
tute of Lafayette. The school also
has three rooms, with sixty-seven
pupils.
The Geo. H. Cause heirs donated
land to the school and it is intended
to add more to the tract later on
The trustees of the school are:
Dave Evans, VIM. Welsh. Russell
Theodore Moran and
Isaac Singletary. School board mem-
Der, H. @. Parker.
The Audubon school IL Z two-room !
school that, while not as we'll equip
PED. presented q remarkably neat ap-