Phoenix tribune., 1920-01-24
AGRICULTURE MEN
RENDER REAL SERVICE

hENDEh hEAL OEnNtCE
Uncle Sam has an appetite for big
jobs. 1t is a studpendous undertaking
to participate with federal funds the
in the thousands of public
schools teaching vocational agricul-
ture, home economics 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.
]. W. Wright, agriculture teacher at
st. David, Ariz., besides the work in
volved in teaching IL boys the science
of plant and animal production, finds
time for some real community serv-
ice, He studied his community and
decided that more live stock was
needed. AS a result of his efforts,
bunch of Duroc-Jersey brood sows
were shipped from the Salt River
valley to St. David This had scarce
ly been done before he began talking
dairy cattle. His school board sent
hi INTO 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. Mr.. Wright will meet
with these people at regular times in
night classes and together they will
pastures, the marketing of milk, etc.
He returned from his A. E. F. tour
of Europe with some strong agricul
tural convictions, and during his five
months at st. David he 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 leadership,
the boys in the vocational agriculture
class and the younger boys in their
club work produced animals and crops
valued at approximately $500 last
year. One of his students, Charles
johnson, produced cotton, alfalfa and
corn worth $4,000 during the crop
year 1919. Mr.. Woolley was instru-
mental in bringing to the farmers of
Chandler a short course on long staple
cotton in which they were instructed
by the best talent on Egyptian cotton,
not only in Arizona, but also from the
United States department of agricul-
ture at Washington, d. C. DR.. o. w.
Cook, Prof. Swingle, and Prof King
were the specialists from Washington.
Dean D. w. Working of the university
Of Arizona college of agriculture, D. c.
Mote, state entomologist, E. V. George,
state plant pathologist, County Agent
H. c. Heard and E. W. Hudson and
Mr.. Jones of the Southwest Cotton
company were the principal 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-
|ture departments in their schools.
Uncle Sam and the State of Arizona,
together furnish three-fours of the
salaries of these men for teaching
vocational agriculture. In this way,
the community gets the services of
trained men at a small fraction of
their cost, and much smaller frac-
ton of their real worth. The State
Department of Vocational Education,
Phoenix, will assist any community to
establish department of vocational
agriculture, home making, or trade
land industrial education in their
schools.