The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-09-04


structed of yellow pine timber run
ming through the middle from the in
shore end to the off-shore end. This
is a new creation by the contractor,
Jesse A. Rowland of Seabright. who
says the sand will be less apt to sift
through the rock filed construction
with the tongue and groove sheathing
than through a wall erected Of heavy
ton rock This idea has already ex-
today fully $50 feet of beach along the
south side of the seawall registering
depth at places of more than 25 feet.
The final seawall, not yet fully COM
pleted, is at Asbury Park. Here 500
feet of rock filed protection are rum
ming northeasterly to sea- Two
breaks however, result in the unfin-
ished protector. And $1,O00,000 is the
acknowledged cost. Heavy storms
arose during the construction of the
wall and a popularity of soft sand
mixture, coupled with mud formation,
caused the heavy rocks, during the
storms, to spread and settle. When
they lift the concrete base, about 85
feet in width, the constant poundings
from the heavy ground swells weak
ened the wall. causing it to part and
chip off the end.
In spite of the handicap Asbury
Park beach has been UNNECESSARILY
improved. Along the north end of the
Boardwalk, where the beach at low
tide is fully IS feet from the rail,
there is a white loose sand almost on
a level with the walk. And along the
south side of the wall beach extends
600 feet seaward.
Boys for Rural Leaders
H. O. Sampson, New jerseys state
supervisor of agricultural education,
tells in report just prepared of steps
taken to obtain the rural leaders of
tomorrow.
They will come. he says, largely
from the boys now living on farms,
and farmer needs to know more
than agriculture to be rural leader.
Accordingly the high schools of the
state have established agriculture cur
ricula, which train the boys for rural
leadership by giving them well
grounded high school education, in
Guiding English, civics, mathematics,
history, the sciences and agriculture.
"Too many persons" says Mr..
Sampson, "get the idea that the boy
who enrolls n the high school agri-
cultural curriculum spends all his
school time studying agriculture.
This is far from true. In sact, tho
major portion of his school day is de-
voted to academic studies, such as
English and mathematics"
Mr.. Sampson points out that the
future farm leader should know, not
only the production side of farming,
but its economics as well, and that to
give him the proper instruction spe-
cial teacher, trained in both the prac-
teal and the scientific sides of farm
ing, is employed. Part of the educa-
ton includes field trips by class
groups to farms, on which occasions
both the teacher and the farmer ex-
plain the reasons for and the methods
of farming.
Training for Leadership
'In addition, these group associa-
lions hold community fairs, competi-
tive Judging contests and get-together
meetings, all of which are good train
ing for their future activities as rural
citizens. The local associations are
combined into statewide young
farmers organization that has all the
features of any statewide organiza-
ton of farmers"
Mr.. Sampson says that records in
the office of the New Jersey State
Department of Public Instruction
show that 74.S per cent of the gradu-
ates and former pupils Of the high
school course are in some kind Of
agricultural work. Efforts to discover
the attitudes of parents toward the
agricultural studies brought assur-
rance that the work is heartily en-
dorsed by them.
I'm only one case out Of approx
mately two hundred" Mr.. Sampson
says, has there been apparent dis
satisfaction, and this was not dissat-
isfaction with the course, but rather
the father saw no future in farming
his SOu. Ill oil OIu6T CdSSS par
ents were we'll pleased with the work
given in our schools. One example
will show the usual attitude of par
ents:
1.-THE superintendent and several
members Of the Board of Education
of a high school where a course Of
agriculture is to be established in Sep
TENDER were visiting one of the agri-
cultural departments of the State this
spring to get first-hand information
concerning the work. 1t so happened
that there were at the school that
day three farmers of the neighbor-
hood, each of whom had had son
graduate from the agricultural course.
During the conversation, they were
asked to give their opinions about the
work, and, without exception, they ex-
pressed entire satisfaction. Each of
the men now has his son in partner
ship in the farm business, and is
therefore well qualified to expires an
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