The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1921-08-26
FARM STUDENTS
OF HIGH SCHOOL
DISCUSS COURSE
EXPECTED THAT ABOUT TWEEN
TY WILL STUDY AGRICULTURE
DURING YEAR.
PROF. LOWELL OUTLINES WORK
Purpose Of Smith-Hughes Act to Give
The Boys Both Practical and
Theoretical Course at the Same
Time-Good Results.

(From Wednesdays Daily Herald,J
Students and prospective students
in agriculture at the coming term of
the county high school met with Prof
Joe w. Lowell, the new instructor,
and discussed the plans for the class
for the coming year. There were
about dozen present and they re-
ported number of others who con,
template taking the course. Prof
Lowell believes that he will have
some twenty students during the ses-
sion
Iii order that the farmers and farm
or boys Of the county may know just
what is contemplated in this course,
Prof. Lowell has contributed the fol
lowing statement to The. Herald:
Smith-Hughes Law which pass
ed congress some few years ago pro.
vides for the teaching of practical
agricultural course in the high schools
of America. The teacher is required
to be graduate of an accredited agri-
cultural college and to take special
work each year to keep up to the
times agriculturally, he is required
to own and keep up a car for the
purpose of visiting the projects of the
boys taking this work in school. Each
boy taking this work is required be.
sides the practical class room work
to carry out project in agriculture
along teh line he studied that year.
Five tights of the salary in Tennes-
see is paid by the state and federal
governments. Besides looking after
his projects during the summer
months the teachee is available for
any other kind of county work in his
line and is glad to help farmers in
any of their problems.
In Maury County the Smith-Hughes
teacher as in other counties is mem
Der, of the County Council of Agricul-
ture and co.operates in every way pos
sible with the county agent. The
Smith Hughes man dealing more es.
pecially with boys and their work.
Some of the things taught in the
Smith, Hughes course at the High
School this year are farm shop work,
rope splicing, tool sharpening, saw
filing, repairing farm machinery, set
ting up farm machinery, mechanical
drawing, terracing, drainage, farm
lighting and water systems, pruning
and spraying orchards: care of live
stock. their treatment, feeding. dis
eases and disease control; poultry,
feeding, diseases and control, control
of mites and lice. culling finding out
how to tell the layer from the board
ers; farm management, taking up ro-
tations of-different types of farming
and on different farms, how to plan
rotations, farm bookkeeping, farm
cost accounting, and many other prac-
tical and essential problems on the
farm.
THE purpose of the Smith Hughes
work is to keep the boy in close
touch with the farm at the same time
he is studying the work in school and
it graduates boy, with 16 units re.
quired for college entrance. 1t en-
ables the boy to determine whether
he likes farming Or. not when it is
done in the right way and If he does
he can go ON to college and get more
and deeper information and If some.
thing keeps him from going to col
lege he is ready to do better farming
after taking the course. We educate
our lawyers. doctors. preachers and
they have to be educated before they
can practice their profession, we let
our boys farm if we do not think they
are bright enough to take any other
profession.
1.-THE farmer with the high school
training in agriculture is making
from $40 to $575 more per year than
the farmer who has no training and
the college trained farmer in agri-
culture is making from $1,000 to ST.
500 more than the. unframed farmer
so it seems that we should educate
our future farmers. We have already
educated too many of our farmer boys
away from the farm If we do not iedu.
cate few of our best boys back to
the farm and educate our farmers to
stick together the future of farming
will never be any brighter then it is
now. There is just as much room
at the top of. the ladder for good
farmers as there is for good lawyers,
doctors. teachers, or any other pro
fession, but 1t takes agricultural train
ing and education to get there"
Sergt John A. McGregor. carrying
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