The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-29
RAGLAND AWARDED ! STATE VOCATIONAL
 FARMING SCHOOL

Ashville. May &.-(special )-Rasland has been awarded one of the 10 schoois of voca tional farming and home econom- ics This decision was reached after " mass meeting of the citizens of hasiahu with Prof. J. B. Hobdy, state superVisor of vocational education, and the St. Sialr county school board, in session m the auditorium of the new s25,ooo schoo' building at Ragland yesterday State Senator Watt T. Brown, one oA the forerunners of vocational educatloH in the state presided at the meeting, III ! which Professor Hobdy was the principai speaker Prof. R. E. Ledbetter, state su- peryisor of rural schools, spoke on the subject of consolidating school dlstrlcts for the betterment of school conditions and better school buildings Mrs W. A. Reason. president of the county board or education, with other members or the board made short talks in support or l voca ational education and the advantages offered.
 Farming is a science when success fully carried on, and profitably embraces every science taught in the schools ana the colleges" said Professor Hobdy. Tn instructng the boys in sclentlrlc 1arHi- : ing it woudl be well to hang guano sacks on the walls of the school room just as the maps or the WOTlu dlo thOio AiS boys need to learn the composition Of the fertilizers that they may know bet ter just what compositions and what percentage should be used on the dlf- ferent types of the soil.
 He said that in the establishment of the vocational agricultural section m the school at Ragland that it would mean more boys from 14 years and apoVe would attend school; that they would h, in ct rIlr lrtO tGacn few hours of school room work and that the remainder of the time would De devoted to practicable instruction on the farm 'It is a course in which you are preparing the boy to be three dol- lar and seventy-five cent man instead or dollar man." he said
 In awarding the school of agriculture and home economies 70 Ragland, Pro- lessor Hobdy stated that when he | thought of vocational education, for 1t IS here that the state is preparing to es- tablish a large school on those lines MEANS MANY IMPROVEMENTS ] Senator Brown explained that in se- 1 curing the courses that it would mean I 1O-acre farm for practicable use in demonstration work, a library, black smith shop. carpenter shop, special classroom furniture and other improve ments to the school. He especially em- phasized the eafernes in which the boys | and girls of tbAt section had expressed their Willingness to take these courses and that it sAould be success from the | start. VI
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