El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-12-21

The reports in full are as follows,
EernaIlllo County
Complying with your request con
tanned in ybur favor of the 9th inst.
for a report on industrial work in this
county, / beg to inform you al follows:
Manual Training-N0 shop work is
being done In the rural schools. Bas-
ket-weaving. raffia-weaving. cIay-model-
ing, drawing etc, are taught in all
grades and in the lower elementary
grades we give them what is termed
.bnsy-work."
Domestic Scfence-In q few schools
cooking is taught the girls from the
fifth grade up. Sewing is taught in
all schools In all grades-lower grades
make use Of sewing cards, yarn weav-
ing, etc. Many Of the schools have
sewing machines.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is taught
theoretically in all schools from the
seventh grade up.
I certainly favor instruction in agri-
culture in the rural schools, and / am
also very much in favor of school gar
dens: but the regular grade teachers
cannot give practical instruction in
this subject, chiefly on account of lack
OF time Tin this county the average
number of pupils per teacher is 50l.
The only way in which efficient in
struction in agriculture and manual
training can be given in the rural
schools Is, in my opinion, by having
this work done in each county by a
competent (some counties may need
twO) supervisor Of agricultural and
manual training instruction. appointed
by and working under the direction
of the county superintendent.
This supervisor should be employed
for the whole calendar year in order
that the school gardens may be look
ed after and kept up in the proper
manner by the boys during the sum
mer vacation.
Respectfully submitted,
(Sigpedl ,ATANASIO MONTOYA,
County School superintendent.
ln chaves County
Industrial education has not re-
ceived the attention in Chaves county
that the magnitude Of it's Importance
merits, fox the reason that directors,
especially of rural districts, will not
make provisions in their budgets for
funds to prepare for this sort Of train
ing.
Manual Training-But few schools
outside Of the city Of Roswell are
doing anything along the line of man
ual training. Lake Arthur school boys
erected q shop and have supplied
same with ordinary tools. A fine in
terest has been created in this work
and a number Of the boys have made
splendid progress.
Some work in mammal training has
been done at Greenfield, East Grand
Plains. Tatum and Elkins, not to
speak of the excellent work done in
the city schools Of Roswell, where a
special teacher for manual training is
employed, and a large class is directed
in this work.
Domestic Science-Domestic science
is receiving some attention in each Of
the town schools In this county, viz:
Dexter, Hagerman, Lake Arthur, and
In a few OF our rural schools. But
little provision has been made for
room and equipment, so the work has
been done under adverse conditions,
with the exception Of the city schools
Of Roswell, where 4 special teacher OF
domestic science is employed, all
necessary equipment has been provid-
ed for efficient work. However, some
fairly good work has been done in
town and rural school and the inter
est in this subject is growing all over
the county.
Agriculture-Thi subject is being
taught in every school in the county.
We have employed 1913 teachers in 81
schools, not including the city Of Ros-
well. In each school in the county is
found a class In agriculture. The in
terest in this subject is fine and in
our last county eighth grade promo 4
ton examination there was scarcely
a failure in this subject. IN this part
Of the state Of New Mexico, I think
this subject should be taught in each
and every n Of our schools. We are
doing 50 in Chaves county. j
Very respectfully submitted,
tSigned) G. C. HILL, /;
County SUPERINTENDENT