Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-11
TOUETELLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL
 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMEN

At Tourteuotte Memorial High school. North GrosvenordaIe. the school year has started off well in the agricultural de partment with an enrolment of six boys in the upper class and r in the lower. The upper class has remained unchanged but in the lower class two have been dropped and three admitted Three more applications are under consideration at the present time and at least two will be admitted when adequate seating facil- ities can be provided In numbers this department compares favorabiy with other high school departments in the state as the largest has only 2S en- rolled and TourteIlotte will probably have 22 in a week or so more. The in- structor considers this d very good showing for the first year.
 Boys entering this department receive vocational training which Will directly 1 help them in lhe actual work or business i of making q living on the farm. Il IS not the theoretical subject matter taught with text book. BooKs are used how ever, to some extent, for much can be gained from them Most Of the material taught will ba derived from farms in Thompson or in surrounding towns. For instance, one class has field crops and 1 rctAtoes are included in that classifca- i ton So this fall while digging was in l progress they were taken to a large po- i tato farm in Woodstock and there heard ! d lecture by the owner, saw, actual dig 1 sing picking and grading and had the l opportunity 10 ask questions freely, cer- 1 tainIy better than reading in text book how it is done or hearing the instructor 1 lecture nu it.
 1 An interesting incident occurred with the class in poultry recently. Consider 1 able work had been. done with feeds and ] rst.ons and among other things taught ] was how to find the nutritive ratio and 1 hoN 10 use it. A short time after this twas taken up in the class room the class visited 3 commercial poultry plant and : while asking questions thought 10 prove their point about the nutritive ratio The poultryman assured them that he knew Nwhat it was and had made use of it in l feeding. and then he went on to give a little talk on rroteins. carbohydrates and fat This served to settle the matter with the boys. IL did more than hours
 Of lecture or reading would have done
 So Inc instructor plans to take bott l c,aSSes from time to time to see and
 hear what practical men at home have
 to say on farming and how they do it.
 Another way in which the teaching
 
 i be linked up is by means Of the survey Each boy at intervals throughout hb
 course will be required to gather iron his own farm and from the farms O
 three neishbors definite information d.
 to local farming practice. This materia l will be used i'll the class room as tn,
 basis of instruction and will serve as al tindex to point out wha. should be taugh and what it is not worth while to toucl
 upon,
 In order to provide q motive and in | centive to the boy and also to provide
 laboratory, the boys are required to car
 " on supervised farm work in the form
 of q project. All the boys in the poultr,
 class are caring for and will keep rec
 ords of their home flock for one gear Also next spring they will plant, car fer and harvest gardens-in some case } of a commercial size, in others Of a sig sufficient to supply their own family , Where possible all financial responsibil
 ity both for gain and loss will be takel
 by the boy. This home work is super vised by the instructor the year round and much of his most effective teachin