The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1919-08-13
No. 33
HARTFORD SCHOOL
OPEN ON SEPT |.
Splendid Faculty and Instructive
Course of Study for
Next Session,

The Hartford graded and high
school will open Monday, Septem-
Der 1. Miss Winnie Dean Moseley
will take charge of the first and Sc
cond grades; Miss Mary Laura PEN
dleton, the fifth and sixth; Mrs. S.
o. Keown the seventh and eighth.
Miss Cliffie Felix has resigned the
position of teacher for the third
and fourth grades to accept a posi-
ton at Rockport. The Board hopes
to fill the vacancy at its next regu-
lar meeting which will be held Mon
day, August, 18th.
Two courses will be offered in the
high school department this year.
The first is the old line classical
course which will be taught by Miss
Belle Walker and Prof. w. S. Hill.
The second is a course in vocational
agriculture and it will be operated
under the Smith Hughs bill where
by the Federal government will pay
half the teachers salary. This
course is approved by both the
State and Federal Boards of Voca-
tional Education and consists of thr
following subjects:
Courses of Study
First Year
First Term: Rhetoric and Com
position, Algebra /, Farm Crops.
Economic Botany.
Second Term: Rhetoric and
Composition, Algebra l, Farm Crops
Agriculture.
Second Year
First Term: American Litara-
ture, Algebra II, Animal Husban-
dry, Economic Zoology.
Second Term: American Litera-
ture, Physical Geography Animal
Husbandry, Poultry.
Third Year
First Term: English Literature.
Plane Geometry, Soil Physic, Agri-
cultural Chemistry.
Second Term: English Classics.
Plane Geometry, Soil Fertility, Ag-
ricultural Chemistry.
Fourth Year
First Term: English Grammar,
Physiology, Agricultural Engineer
ing, Rural Economics.
Second Term: U. S. History.
Farm Management and Accounts.
Rural Sociology.
Courses Encourage Farming
Our old courses have been educat
ing the boys to leave the farm. II
is the object of this course to en-
courage them to stay on the farm.
Farming has always been and will
always be the one business upon
which all businesses must, in the
last analyses, rest. The farmer
now is coming into his reward and
receiving his long desired reward
for his labor. But more farmers
are needed and better methods of
farming, are needed IL our already
large and increasing population is
to be privided for adequately. In
the early days Of our country the
population was small, most of then
were farmers. and land was abund-
ant and fertile. With an increase
in population has come a devasta-
ton of large areas of our country.
Barren hillsides and yellow gullies
bear silent but convincing evidence
to that fact. This course is plan
ned to teach boys how to farm more
wisely than did their forefathers
and how to redeem much of the
land that they thoughtlessly de-
pleted.
Therefore this course is primarily
designed for those boys who expect
some day to become farmers. It
is open, however. to all students,
boys and girls alike. A pupil in
any grade may change to this
ii he wishes, and graduate
in schedule time. Half of the sub
iects are the same as those listed
m the regular classical courses
while the other halt are agricul-
tural subjects. All credits made
will be accepted on entrance at the
University of Kentucky. Beside
he text book, the pupil will be re-
ruled to do six months Home
Project" each year. II will CON
list of raising a pig, calf, chickens.
he care OF the home COW or the
'aising of an acre Of some crop as