French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-09-07
Effective RESULTS FROM
FARM LIFE SCHOOLS
work Of Improving Home Life Goes
Hand i'm Hand With Agricultural
Development

establishment of the farm life school
svstpm promises most effective results
n North Carolina. Where it has been
mt in Operation it is proving very eff
fectiye in improving the condition of
homo life on the farm and also in ad-
Tancing the effectiveness Of agricul-
rural pursuits.
The act creating the system was
nassed by the State Leg stature in
March, 1911.
The act provides:
There shall be established and
maintained in every county complying
With the provisions Of this act as
hereinafter set forth a school to be
Known as a County Farm Life School
for the training and the preparation Of
the boys and girls of sad county for
farm life and home making"
Sixteen of the schools have been
established in various sections of the
state and results already attained
have proven the wisdom of the legis-
lators.
The North Carolina Agricultural
extension Service which is conducted
Jointly by the College Of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts and the State De-
rartment of Agriculture in co-Opera-
tion with the Federal Department of
Agriculture is another institution
which S also greatly interested in the
training of the boys and girls for the
duties of the life on the farm. And at
this point the two institutions have met
on a common ground which has en-
abIed each to be of great value to the
other. The farm life school as it vas
dreamed Of and finally established was
To be the center of community activ.-
~. 1t vas to be the agricultural CO.
educational high school of the county.
$1,000 to Each School.
To insure high standard and eff
cheney of the system the law requ res
that So, 900 per mum be appropriated
10 each school established Half this
amount is appropriated from State
funds. The other half must be app.
priated from county Or township funij
il which the school is located. The
State will not. permit of @he use of its
appropriation until an equipment such
as provided by the State S~uperinten-
dent of Education shall have been pro-
cured by the county or tOwnsh p. This
equipment consists of a building with
recitation rooms, laboratories and ap-
paratus necessary for effic ent instruc-
tons in the prescribed courses of
study. dormitory with rooms for not
less than % boys and an equal num-
Der of girls, a barn and dairy build
ing with necessary equipment, and a
farm OF not less than % acres of good
land. ALI this must be approved and
accepted before the State S~uperinten-
dent of Education will consent to the
use Of State funds. The school is OF
course under the management of a
board Of trustees who consist in this
case Of one man from each township
with the county superintendent Of ed
ucatiOn as ex officiO member and sec
rotary of the board.
State Superintendent Views.
Discussing the purposes and merits
OF this new institution State Superin-
tendent Of Education J. Y. Joyner
says:
More than eight-tenths of the pop
ulatiOn of North Carolina live in the
country and follow agricultural pur-
suits. More than eight-tenths of the
children Of North Carolina r cOun-
try children. More thar 80 per cent
of these never enter college and never
receive any preparation for making a
living except what they receive at the
publ e schools of their counties and
communities. These farmers and
these children are entitled to a better
provision at home for the better pre-
paratiOn for the life that most of them
will spend and ought to spent On the
farm, in the country, and for such ed
Ucation in the school as will tend to
turn them to country life, interest
them in it, and prepare them to 1--we
more comfortably, more contentedly
and more happily.
The farmers and the farmers chill
dren are entitled to be given a chance
to provide for themselves by taxation
and dOnat on (for the chief burden or
the maintenance and equipment of the
farm life school will fall on them)
these farm life schools adapted to the
needs Of the children, the environment
surrounding them, and afordng bet
ter preparation for their life work.
All they ask is q chance to help them-
selves to do this, and a little appropr1-
atom Of So 800 annually from the state
Treasury to stimulate and encourage
this self help. Shall they not have this
Chance?'
These schools have become the ag-
rlcultural and in some Instance the
social center for the counties or town
ships in which they are located. Their
establishment has given wonderful i'm
petus to community gatherings and at
tendance on institute work conducted
by experts from the State and Federal
bureaus.
Officers and others interested in the
new system are greatly encouraged
over the immediate good results. They
see in the establishment Of this sys-
tenn a potent means of carrying ex-
tension work as we'll as other elevated
influences to every man, woman and
child on the farms of North Carolina.
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