Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-01-24
VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE
 MEN RENDER SERVICE

Uncle Sam has an appetite for big jobs. It is stupendous undertaking to participate with Federal funds the supervision in the thousands of public schools teaching Vocational Agricul- ture, Home Economies, and Trade and Industrial Education in the forty-eight states. Yet that is exactly what is being done.
 Arizona has thirteen men teaching Vocational Agriculture. They are quite different from the popular idea of school teachers. They teach the boys in school, lead in the junior club work, they are on the job for twelve months to help and advise the boys with their home projects, and what IS quite a new department for teachers, they are active in the agricultural work of the community.
 J. w. Wright, agricultural teacher at St. David, Arizona, besides the work involved in teaching twelve boys the science of Plant and Animal Pro- duction, find time for some real com munity service. He studied his com- munity. and decided that more live stock was needed. AS result of his efforts, bunch of Duroc-Jersey brood sows were shipped from the Salt River Valley to St. David. This had scar cely been done before he began talk ing dairy cattle. His school board sent him to Phoenix in cooperation with County Agent Adamson to select sixty dairy cows and calves. These have been spoken for by the farmers and farm boys of the St David and Pomerene districts. Mr. Wright will meet with these people at regular times in night classes and together they will work out problems of feed ing rations, pastures, the marketing of milk, etc. He returned from his A. E F. tour of Europe with some strong agricultural convictions, and during his five months at St. David ne has made some remarkable changes in the outlook of the community.
 w. G. Woolley has been at his post in the Chandler High School for less than year. By his active leader ship, the boys in the Vocational Az riculture class and the younger boys in their club work produced animals and crops valued at approximately $65OO last year. One of his students, Charles Johnson, produced cotton, al falfa, and corn worth $3000 during the crop year 1919. MT. Woolley was instrumental in bringing to the farm CTS of Chandler short course on long staple cotton in which they were in .structed by the best talent on Egyp- tian Cotton, not only in Arizona but also from the United States Depart ment of Agriculture at Washington, D. c. Dr. c. w Cook, Prof. Swingle, and Prof. King were the specialists from Washington. Dean D. w. Work ing of the University of Arizona Col lege of Agriculture, D. c. Mote, State Entomologist, E. c. George, State Plant Pathelogist, County Agent H. V, I1cdIu, anu II. w. AAooAooAA ssA"N @~~' Jones of the Southwest Cotton Con- pany were the principle speakers from within the state.
 Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson, Yuma, Flor ence, Peoria, Gilbert, Stafford, Alma, St. Johns, and Jerome Junction each have teachers of Vocational Agricul- tural Departments in their schools. Uncle Sam and the State of Arizona together furnish three-fourths of the salaries of these men for teaching Vo- cational Agriculture. In this way, the community gets the services of train ed men at a small fraction of their cost, and a much smaller fraction of their real worth. The State Depart ment of Vocational Education, Phoe- nix, will assist any community to es- tablish a department of Vocational Agriculture, Home Making, or Trade and Industrial Educational in their schools.