Smyrna times., 1919-10-01
NEW SCHOOL CODE WORKING
SPLENDIDLY AT TOWNSEND
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because there were some desks so
close to the old stove that they caught
on fire and others were badly char
red. The pupils of the schools which
has been closed are attending a more
modern school where the temperature
of the room is watched; where fresh
air is a constant visitor; where the
light comes through the window so
arranged that the pupils eyes are
cared for; where conditions are en-
tirely improved and the teachers are
of higher standard and the children
are getting a higher education.
Agriculture A New Course.
: Among the courses of study in the
high schools this year is agriculture.
"Agriculture!" exclaim many par
ents. "What do our children want to
learn agriculture for?" they continue.
The answer comes back:
Because it is essential"
Whether a young man is being
raised on farm or in town, he can
carry along very nicely the learning
about agriculture. He can converse in
telligently about the breeds and
grades of cattle. He may tell the diff
ference between a CoShin and a Ply
mouth Rock or Wyandotte chicken.
He will understand why the Holstein
cows are kept by the farmer who de-
sires a large yield of milk and why
another man keeps a different breed
when he desires the best yield of but
ter.
When he takes a thorough course
in agriculture he will know the differ
ence between a double mould board
plow, sulky cultivator, drag har-
row, tumbler hay rake, a modern
washing machine or a crow cabinet.
There is difference in them, just as
much as there is between fertilizer
and acidulated sand sold as the for
mer. Farmers known many things,
and yet many of them do not know
how they have been cheated by ferti-
lizer sharks. Ashes from a railroad
roundhouse have been ground into
dust by the mighty burrs, then mixed
with South Carolina rock and acidu-
lated, and when the farmer saw the
dark material in the fertilizer he was
told it was bone black. He bought it,
he paid for it and found that acidu-
lated ashes did not help to grow a
bumper wheat crop. He learned, when
too late, that cand from the shore at
Woodland Beach, when treated to a
drenching of sulphuric acid, remained
only a weight-maker when paid for
the manufactured material by the ton
The fertilizer bags could have on them
glowing analyses, but the farmer was
not educated in his own calling and he
paid too dear for his whistle.
We cannot tell when one may
change his calling in these days, wher
the farmers sons come to the cities
and the city boys go to the country
to get the pure air, plenty of room
and raise chickens, have plenty OF
eggs, keep a COW for milk and butter
and later branch out and become one
of those farmers with the big farms
big herds of cattle and big crops.
Expect More Consolidated Schools.
The auto bus plan to carry the chill.
dren to school is getting fair trial
and it is the opinion of many who
have seen them in operation that next
year will see many more schools con
solidated and more busses in opera
tion, taking the children to the con
solidated schools. Calls for efficiency
are heard from all directions, and the
vane is pointing to consolidation anC
higher education in the consolidation
school, the foundation of which ha!
been laid under the School Code.
Delaware commenced a few year!
bers of our people. Everywhere yol
ter educational era. The State sen
our graduates to normal schools, tn,
summer schools were established, ant
then came the great teaching cente-
at Newark, the Women's College o.
Delaware. All of this is already be
ginning to tell in an improved grade
of teachers for our rural schools.
Years ago people died from inte1na
troubles. Then surgery stepped in anC