The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-07-17
PUPILS HOME
FARMS PAYING
State Department of Public In
struction Reports 399 Pupils
Earned S69,513,0OO..
ALTER NORMAL CURRICULUM
New Equipment viii Be Added and
Classroom Renovated for Fall.
Farmers Protest Stock
ing Rabbits.

Trenton.-The pupils who study ag-
riculture in the public schools of New
Jersey conduct home projects in farm
ing as part of their regular school
work Returns recently received by
the State Department of Public In
struction show that 399 of these pupils
last year cleared above all expenses
S69,513.67.
The returns also show that for ev-
cry dollar spent by the state and local
communities for the annual salaries
of the teachers and the expense for
automobile travel in supervising these
projects there was returned 5000 to
the various communities in the form of
profits on the products grown and sold
by the pupils. In this project work
the pupils are carefully supervised by
the teachers of agriculture, who are
employed for the calendar year SO that
they may be with the boys during the
summer as well as during the nine or
ten months of the school year.
These projects are great help in
making the school agriculture CORE
late with practical farm work. says
the State Department of Public In
struction in describing the work.
1.-THE boy in reality becomes a farmer
and carries out his project the same
as if he were operating the farm as
an adult"
Normal Schools Curriculum
Changes in curriculum and in build
ing equipment are to be made to the
training school of the State Normal
School before the opening Of that in
stitution in the fall New equipment
is to be added and the classrooms
will be greatly altered to comply with
the latest requirements in school
rooms. The classes will be limited to
twenty in order that the teachers may
be able to give each child greater in
dividual instruction.
The conversational French class of
the sixth grade will be continued
Under the direction of Miss Mariana
physical education and hygiene, there
will be special training in this field,
and standard exercises, folk dances
and corrective posture exercises will
be given. There will be morning
milk lunch for underweight children
and out-of-door activities.
The music will be reorganized by
Miss Mabel E. Bray, head of the school
music department, and there will be
special attention given to voice train
ing and appreciation. There will be
boys choir and instrumental classes.
Three critics will be added to the
supervising staff: Mrs Isabel w. Rid
| dell Of Massachusetts, Miss Elizabeth
Clark of the Willimantic Normal
School of Connecticut and Miss H.
Grace Parsons, formerly head of the
Parsons School at Essex Hills.
Miss Alice C. Smithick, who has
been assistant supervisor of practice
over fourth grade, is to be supervisor
of the training school.
Protest Stocking Rabbits
Orchard owners and truck growers
in some sections of South Jersey
have raised protests against the pro-
posed importation of $4,000 rabbits
from Missouri to restock woods and
fields throughout the state for the
hunting season next fall.
Farmers say rabbits are consider
ed pest in the west, and they may
become equally destructive in the
truck growing and fruit raising dis
tricts in this state.
Sportsmen assert the intention is to
restock isolated districts, of which
there are many square miles where
| there are only scattered farms and
no orchards. A lot of farmers who
have principally grass lands raise
fodder crops, hunters say, are anx-
ious for more rabbits for their own
shooting.
Game wardens report the season
so far has been favorable for deer in
South New Jersey, and several fawns
have been seen with the herds. There
has been too much rain for the small
er game, and pheasants and quail
seem to have suffered most. Reports
from the bay meadows indicate that
wild ducks and other water fowl nest
ing on the marshes have not suffered
any from the heavy rains except in
some locations where tributary
streams have overhowed.
Hundreds of pheasant chicks are
beginning to forage through fields and
woodlands, having been Matched out
by farmers under their setting hens.
The eggs were obtained from the
state game farm at Forked river,
where many other broods of pleas
ants have been Matched recently.
Lima Bean Crop Profitable
Farmers in various parts of the
state are interested in the statement
made by C. H. Nissley. vegetable
specialist connected with the New
Jersey Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton, that farmers who have been
able to preserve their planting OF
lima beans are sure to reap large
profits.
In some sections of the state large