The Arizona copper camp., 1920-01-31
AGRICULTURE MEN
RENDER REAL SERVICE

Uncle Sam has. an appetite for big
jobs. 1t is a studpendous undertaking
to participate with federal funds the
supervision in the thousands of pub
lie schools teaching vocational agri-
culture, home economics, and trade
and industrial education in the forty
Height 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
;Ischool teachers. They teach the boys
jim school, lead in the junior club work,
|Ithey are on the job for twelve months
Ito help and advise the boys with their
home projects, and, what is quite
new department for teachers, they
are active in the agricultural work of
Ithe community.
1 j. w. Wright, agriculture teacher at
list. David, Arizona, besides the work
:Iinvolved in teaching twelve boys the
science of plant and animal produc-
lion, finds time for some real COM
Imunity service. He studied his COM
munity and decided that more live
stock was needed. AS a result Of his
efforts, a bunch OF Duroc-J Jersey brood
lsows We're 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
7 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 Pom
erene districts. Mr.. Wright will meet
+, with these people at regular times in
night classes and together they will
work out problems of feeding ratipns,
pastures, the marketing of milk, etc.
He returned from his A. E. f, tour
of Europe with some strong agricul-
Itural convictions, and during his five
months at st. David he has made some
remarkable changes in the outlook of
Ithe community
w. G. Woolley has been at his post
. in the Chandler high school for less
, than year. By his active leadership,
F the boys in the vocational agriculture
class and the younger boys in their
; club work produced animals and crops
t valued at approximately $6,500 last
/ Iyear 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 short course on long staple
I cotton in which they were instructed
lIby the best talent on Egyptian cotton,
not only in Arizona but also from the
I United States department of agricul-
--lture' at Washington, D. G. DR.. 0. W.
Cook, Prof. Swingle and' Prof. King
: were the specialists from Washing
ton. Dean D. w. Working Of the
. university of Arizona college of agri-
culture, D. G. Mote, state entomolo-
lgist, E. c. George, state plant patholo-
|gist, County Agent H. G. Heard and
E. w. Hudson and Mr.. Jones of the
Southwest Cotton company were the
| principal speakers from within the
f, state.
Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson, Yuma, Flor
i, 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-fourths of the
salaries Of these men for teaching
Vocational agriculture. In this way,
the community gets the services of
trained men at small fraction of
their COST and much smaller frac-
, tion 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
and industrial education in their
schools.