The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-27
SAIS AGRICULTURAL
 SCHOOLS FILLING BILL
Sand Mountaineer Writes Defense Of Their Work-Gives Experiences Of Son With arm
 Proiect-Opposition To Schools Ridiculed

lecture the boys on these things and just let it go at that?
 Of course, he lectured them in the class room, but when that was over he went right out to the field, without his coat on or collar or tie, rigged up the blows, stepped between the blow han dies and with his own hands showed the boys. how to do the work in the easiest and most economic way. All the time explaining the practical as well as the scientific principles in- volved in every step of the operation.
 "These are some of the things Pro- lessor Brumfield has done and is doing all over this county and some of his boys have done even better work in both corn and cotton than my boy did.
 Professor Branyan, who has charge of the ex-service men sent here by the government for their vocational train ing, is doing the same kind of work on an even bigger scale. Now, then, with such experiments as .hese being con- ducted right here on my own farm, right before my own eyes, does anyone suppose that I will continue to go on doing things in the same old way? Will my neighbors, will any sanee man? Of course not.
 Shown Terracing And Pruning
 This is not all they do. These boys are carried out to the fields, any body's fields, and shown right on the ground the scientific principles of correct terracing, pruning the prop CT selection of all kinds of seeds, the care and feeding of all kinds of live stock for the farm, and the Lord only knows what all else. sts.=
 T should have stated that in con- nection with all these projects the boys are taught every known principle of scientific fertilizers and how to ap- ply them to every crop grown in this section. These are just few of the things that are being done here at this school every day.
 Although I'm not familiar with the work done by the girls in the school, still 1 understand that they of home economics as we'll as every Of course, all these things are given with the regular literary courses of
 
 But the argument is, as l have already stated, that after the girls and boys get all this training they don't stay on the farm. Well, it is a fact that not all of them go back to the farm. But what if they don't? Do we not need trained leaders in all the walks of life, and is it not fact that a majority of all these leaders come from the farms? When a boy fin ishes his high school work and feels impressed to preach the gospel, are we going to say to him: oh, no, son, you were educated in an agricultural school; you cant do that When a boy finishes his high school work and decides to match his wits against oth- CT great minds of the legal profession, are we going to say: Oh, no, boy, you must not think of that; you must were partly educated in an agricul- tural school
 Suppose that when boy finishes his high school work and decides that he wants to make his life count for all he can in the medical profession. are we going to say to him: Oh, no, son, you were educated in aIi agri- cultural school and its all impossible When a girl finishes high school and decides to devote her life to the study of art, music or literature, are we go- ing to say to her: Oh, no, gi&, you must not do this. You were e6lucat- cd in an agricultural school and you