Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-08-14
Special Supplement T High School, Mt Jackson Va
COOPERATION
MEANS SUCCESS
Educational Bulletin Directs Atten.
ton to Modern Methods

With the completion Of our new
High School building, we will be in
/ better position to conduct an agri-
culture department here than in the
years past. The agriculture room
will be as good as any class room;
we'll lighted, heated and plenty large
for the class work. The shop will
still be better in that it will contain
the same space as the auditorium.
Coupled with our good building facil-
tiles, the agriculture pupils will have
the best of equipment this year to
work with. Our new instructor has
been on the job since the first of
July and orders have been placed for
the necessary shop and laboratory
In addition to this, a
large supply of agriculture bulletins |
have been received which will fur
nish reference and course material
for the pupils this session.
Going into our new building this
fall with all new equipment, ought
to make it our banner year. The
only way this can be accomplished is
for all the boys in high school that
live on farms take agriculture. Just
simply taking agriculture will not
make the department here a success
There are two vital factors to the
success of agriculture in connection
with this school-interest and coop
Grafton.
The boy himself must have an in
terest in agriculture and look upon
it as something worth while. 1t is
only in the light of such interest that
a boy will enter into the agriculture
class at school and do good class and
home project work Not only must
he be interested in his agriculture,
but he must help to interest his
father and mother in what he is do
ing and help TO sell the idea of home
project work to them and that you
may want to do something new or
different from the way it always has
been done at home.
Coupled with interest is coopera-
ton. The pupil must cooperate with
the instructor and other members of
the class in the work, but above all
he can do in class and above all the
instructor can do for him, he must
have the cooperation of his parents
in the work. Each parent should
have enough interest in their own
boy to carefully consider his own
agriculture work and the plans of his
home project and cooperate with him
in furnishing material and equipment
to carry out his desired plans. In
further cooperation in the work, the
parent in order to interest his son
and keep him on the farm, should
show the boy chance by giving him
all or at least part of the profits
from his home project.
We further wish to state that it is
not only the cooperation of the par
ents of the boys who are taking agri-
culture that we want, but the coop
Grafton of the whole community. By
that, we mean every farmer in the
vicinity and every resident Of the
village should cooperate in the work
here and help boost it along. You
do not have to have a boy in school
to get benefit of the agriculture de-
partment here. If any farmer in the
community wishes information on
any particular farm problem, call on
the agriculture instructor here; he
is at your service and he will aid
you and come to your place when
ever it is possible for him to do so.
When school is in session, if any of
you farmers have farm job or prob
lem you would like to have done and
are not positive just how it is done,
let the instructor bring his class of
boys out and do the job A good
example of such jobs is the treating
of wheat for smu. Even if you do
know how to perform such jobs, but
know it will furnish a good teaching
job on the farm for the class, tell
the instructor and let him bring his
class to your place. Such coopera-
ton as this is what is needed here
to make this agriculture department
rallying success
We want you people to know that
the agriculture department here at
Mt. Jackson school was nearly lost
to the community this past year, due
chiefly to the lack of interest and
cooperation on the part of the farm
ers and people of the community In
the past, and it was only through the
efforts of a few that it was held here
another year to see what could be |
accomplished. We sincerely hope
that the parents and farmers will
cooperate with the instruc-
tor here and make this department
come to the front and a wonderful
success.