Arizona republican., 1920-01-25
REAL SERVICE DONE
 BY THE VOCATIONAL
 AGRICULTURE MEN

Uncle Sam has an appetite for big jobs. It is a stupendous undertaking to participate with federal funds the supervision in the thousands of pub lie schools teaching vocational agricul- ture. home economies and trade indus trial education in the 48 states. Yet that is exactly what is being done
 Arizona has Is men teaching voca- tional agriculture. They are quite diff ferent from the popular ida of school teachers. They teach the boys in school lead in the junior club work, they are on the job for 12 months to help and advise the boys with their home pro- ;ects, and, what is quite a new depart ment for teachers, they are active in the agricultural work of the commit sity.
 J. w. Wright, agriculture teacher nt St. David, Arizona, besides the work involved in teaching 12 boys the sci ,nce Of plant and animal production, finds time for sne real community service He studied his community md decided that more live stock was needed. As a result of his efforts, a bunch of Duroc-JerSey brood soWS were shipped from the Salt River val ley to St. David. This had scarcely been done before he began talking fairy cattle. His school board sent Iii mto Phoenix in cooperation with County Agent Adamson to select 60 dairy cows and calves These have been spoken for by the farmers and farm boys of the St. David and Pom creme districts. Mir. Wright will meet with these people at regular times in night classes and together they will work -Out problems of feeding rat1ons, 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 Sts David he has made some re- rnarkable changes in the outlook of the community
 W. Woolley has been at his post in the Chandler high school for less than year. By his active leadership the boys in the vocational agriculture lass and the younger boys in their club work produced animals and crops valued at approximately S6,5O0 last year. One of his students, Charles Johnson, produced cotton, alfalfa and corn worth s3,000 during the crop year 1919. MT. Woolley was instrumental in bringing to the farmers of Chandler Q short course on long staple cotton, in which they were instructed by the best talent on Egyptian cotton, not only Tn Arizona but also from the United states department of agriculture at Washington, D. C. pr. O. w. Cook, Prof. SwingIe and Prof. King were the specialists from Washington. Dean D. w. Working Of the University of Ari- zona college of agriculture; D. c. Mote, state entomologist; F. C. George, state plant pathologist; County Agent Fl. c. Heard and E. W. Hudson and Mir. Jones of the Southwest oCtton com pany were the principal speakers from within the state.
 Phoenix. Mesa. Tuson. Yumas Flor ence Peoria, Gilbert, Stafford, Alma, St. Johns and Jerome Junction each have teachers of vocational agriculture departments in their schools Uncle sam and the state of Arizona together furnish three-fourths of the salaries of these men for teaching vocational agriculture. In this way the commu- nifty gets the services of trained men at small fraction of their cost. and much smaller fraction of their real worth. The state department of voca- tional education, Phoenix will assist any community to establish a depart ment of vocational agriculture. home making or trade and industrial educa- ton in their schools.