The Coconino sun., 1920-01-30
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 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 diff ferent 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 propects, and, what is quite a new department for teachers, they are active in the agricultural work of the community.
 J. w. Wright, agriculture teacher at St. David, Arizona, besides the work involved in teaching twelve boys the science of plant and animal pro- duction, finds time for some real com munity service. He studied his com- munity and decided that more live stock was needed. Asa result of his efforts, a bunch of Duro-Jersey brood sows were shipped from the Salt Riv- CT Valley to St. David. This had scarcely been done before he began talking dairy cattle. His school board sent him to Phoenix in cooperation with County Agent Adamson to se- lect sixty dairy cows and calves. These have been spoken for by the farmers and farm boys of the St. David and Pomerene districts. Mir. 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 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 a year. By his active leadership, the boys in the vocational agricul- ture class and the younger boys in their club work produced animals and crops valued at approximately S6,- 800 last year. One of his students Charles Johnson, produced cotton, al. falfa and corn worth $3,000 during the crop year of 1919. MT. Woolley was instrumental in bringing to the farmers of Chandler short course or long staple cotton in which they were instructed 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. o. w. Cook, Prof. Swingl' and Prof. King were the specialist from Washington. Dean D. w. Work ing of the University of Arizona col lege of agriculture; D. c. Mote, stat entomologist; E. c. George, stat, plant pathologist, County Agent H. c Heard, and E. w. Hudson and MI Jones, of the Southwest Cotton com pany, were the principal speaker from within the state.
 Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson, Yuma Florence, Peoria, Gilbert, Stafford, Al ma, St. Johns and Jerome Junctiol each have teachers of vocational agri culture departments in their schools Uncle Sam and the state of Arizon; together furnish three-fourth of tn salaries of these men for teachin, vocational agriculture. In this way the community gets the services o trained men at small fraction O their cost, and a much smaller frac tion of their real worth. The stat