anaheim-gazette 1906-02-01

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION Friends of Agricultural Progress Believe Agriculture Should be Taught in Public Schools. By A. C. True, Director of U.S. Office of Experiment Stations. The movement for the introduction of instruction in agriculture into secondary and primary schools is passing rapidly from the stage of agitation to that of action and realization. The agitation of this subject in this country began in the days when Washington, a great farmer, as well as a great general and statesman, was the foremost man in the new Republic. It has ebbed and flowed many times since then without leaving any lasting impression on our educational system until within the last decade it has gathered such volume and assumed such substantial form that the permanent accomplishment of its object seems assured. When we inquire why this is so the reasons are many, but they may be grouped under two or three main heads. In general, the claims of agriculture to a place in our public school system are based both on the economic, social and educational needs of agriculture and agricultural people as related to our present civilization, and on the pedagogic requirements of a school system which shall be adapted to the masses of people in a democratic and industrial tendencies of farming under our Western farmers are indeed drawn into closer social ties, the currents of their lives mingling with those of the co-workers in which they live in ways yet they are loth to recognize general results of which the rule innocent or too ignorant. Meanwhile the other forces are more and more banding together to control the ballot islation, social institutions, general conduct of affairs. Farmers can be educated than they will have the co-operation have some real and vital understanding of community of interest, how to mingle to their own benefit with men of other vocation, will forever run in the naïve monotonous channel and they even their own affairs will lay into the hands of other men. But if our agricultural people great economic and social need also have what may be temporary needs which are even important and fundamental. All it is the untrained middle farmer which holds him down dull routine, keeps him in bed and condemns him to comparison. And by education, I course mean merely the impressions information. It is rather the ment of the mind, the broad clarifying of the mental outpouring of the right turn to processes, the strengthening will and of the power to use ap means of accomplishing use. The education which the farm is that which will give him an appreciation of the progressive scientific spirit of the age in lives, will arouse a keen interest. When we inquire why this is so the reasons are many, but they may be grouped under two or three main heads. In general, the claims of agriculture to a place in our public school system are based both on the economic, social and educational needs of agriculture and agricultural people as related to our present civilization, and on the pedagogic requirements of a school system which shall be adapted to the masses of people in a democratic and industrial state, and to the symmetrical culture of the mind and body of the human child. In a word, intelligent farmers and learned pedagogues approaching the subject from their respective standpoints now meet on a common platform, and each party using the arguments appropriate to his calling, agree that agriculture is a fit and useful subject to be taught in public schools. Hence the friends of agricultural progress in this country have good reasons to believe that ere long agriculture will be generally taught in our schools and form a permanent part of the public school curriculum. An old argument, which has not altogether lost its force, is that agriculture is a great and fundamental industry. In the United States alone, leaving out the forests, about 850,000,000 acres are devoted to agriculture; there are nearly 6,000,000 farms on which 10,000,000 men work for the direct support of a rural population of 40,000,000 souls. The value of these farms and their equipment is over $20,000,000,000, and the value of their products in 1905 is $6,415,000,000. "The manufacturing industries that depend upon farm products for raw materials employed 2,-145,000 persons in 1900, and used a capital of $4,132,000,000." But the highness and fundamental character of agriculture may be used chiefly to draw attention to the economic, social and educational needs of the agricultural people as a large section of the community using the public schools. Economically speaking, the farmer or horticulturist of today and of the future must be a more intelligent and better informed man than his predecessor in order to compete on advantageous terms with men in other callings and to secure sure and adequate returns for his labor and capital. Moreover the American farmer needs to learn somewhere that in the age on which we are now entering the co-op information. It is rather the moment of the mind, the broad clarifying of the mental outgoing of the right turn to processes, the strengthening will and of the power to use ap means of accomplishing use. The education which the farmer is that which will give him an appreciation of the progressive scientific spirit of the age lives, will arouse a keen interest facts and principles of science lated to his own vocation, while that in agriculture is an opportunity for lifelong study may refresh and delight the well as minister to material and in general will lift ag practice out of drudgery into main of intelligent and hopeful. So the farmer comes with nomic, social and educational the teacher and asks what he can do to make him a more business man, a better citizen neighbor, a more intelligent man. And he expects an answer on an intelligent appreciation needs, as well as an up-to-date standing of the functions of the school system organized in accord with reference to the requirethe masses of youth in a de state and ideals of education however firmly they may be the general experience of man the past are nevertheless growing expanding in the light and twentieth century after Christ. The educator who receives them in this spirit, can, I believe, encouraging reply to his appeal American public school system first developed chiefly in the overcome illiteracy among them Even when the high schools established their courses were also clusively literary. As millions of children can in the elementary schools and of thousands in the high school came apparent that the old curricula and the general attitude of school life on the old basis distaste for the manual occupation which the vast majority of all ents in public schools must during their after life. And thus the problem has p itself to our educators of so far the public schools as to br Economically speaking, the farmer or horticulturist of today and of the future must be a more intelligent and better informed man than his predecessor in order to compete on advantageous terms with men in other callings and to secure sure and adequate returns for his labor and capital. Moreover the American farmer needs to learn somewhere that in the age on which we are now entering the co-operative spirit will be more and more essential to the best economic conditions of agriculture, as of other industries. The farmer in this country has thus far been the bulwark of an individualistic organization of industry and of society in general. But we are beginning to see that excessive individualism in industry is resulting in an overwhelming aristocratic plutocratic or oligarchic control of industries, and that in some way we must evolve the true co-operative organization of our industries if we are to preserve the democratic character of our social and legal institutions. The farmer boy, studying agriculture with his comrades in the public schools, will more readily grasp the idea that community interests are advantageous in agriculture, and we shall thus produce generations of farmers who will work together for the right advancement of their industry. The unintelligent farmer in every age and land has sunk to the level of a stolid and unprogressive peasantry, and in this way, in spite of the efforts of great statesmen and philanthropists, the general level of prosperity among farmers has been kept very low. But in addition to the economic needs of agriculture there are the social needs of agricultural people. In obedience to the general influence of our developing civilization and the peculiar in the elementary schools and colleges of thousands in the high school came apparent that the old curricula and the general attitude of school life on the old basis distaste for the manual occupation which the vast majority of all students in public schools must during their after life. And thus the problem has pitted itself to our educators so often the public schools as to bring work into vital relations with life and activities of the masses people. This is the stage of education development in the midst of what are today. Naturally the movement for modeling of our school system requires its most active development first cities, where the school system most highly organized and with very rapid increase in the variety of mechanic arts and pictures created a tremendous degree youthful workers whose minds have been prepared to deal with problems presented to such pursuits. Already provisions for the use of mechanic arts in the public is made in 40 states. While there were only 37 cities of 80 million and over in which manufacturing was taught in the public school 1902 there were 270 such cities Francisco and Los Angeles are this number. The most important result movement is that our leading editions now have changed ideals of education and recognize that the industrialism is an essential factor inpletely cultural education. The ment for agricultural education therefore has a sound pedagogical. It is not the old trade-school we wish to revive and make our public school system. of farming under irrigation tern farmers are inevitably ben into closer social ties and ents of their lives are interwith those of the communities they live in ways which as are loth to recognize and the results of which they are as a cent or too ignorant to discern. while the other forces of society and more banding themselves to control the ballot box, legsocial institutions, and the conduct of affairs. Unless the can be educated that as a mass have the co-operation spirit, the real and vital understanding unity of interest, and know single to their own advantage of other vocation, their lives ever run in the narrow and us channel and the control of own affairs will largely pass ands of other men. our agricultural people have economic and social needs, they what may be termed educadids which are even more imfundamental. For after the untrained mind of the which holds him down to the one, keeps him in isolation, mns him to comparative powd by education, I do not of can merely the imparting of on. It is rather the developne mind, the broadening and of the mental outlook, the right turn to the mental the strengthening of the of the power to use appropriate accomplishing useful ends. tion which the farmer needs which will give him some real son of the progressiveness and spirit of the age in which he arouse a keen interest in the is not to cut out the old studies which educators agree should be included in all elementary and secondary courses, but rather by a more judicious selection of the topics to be taught in the various branches, make room for the enrichment of the public school courses by the introduction of instruction in agriculture, mechanic arts and domestic science. Drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Cream Balm is such a remedy and will cure catarrh or cold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the 50c. size. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N.Y. The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, relieving immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. Robinson Crusoe, Economist. When the average boy spends the delighted hours of imaginative youth in devouring the pages of "Robinson Crusoe" he has, like most people of more mature years, no idea that he is perusing a work of profound philosophy written by one of the greatest political thinkers of the English speaking race. Taken with a knowledge of the facts of the career of De Foe, "Robinson Crusoe" can properly be considered a story intended to illustrate the heavy burden of trouble placed upon any single individual isolated from his fellows and compelled to maintain his existence without their aid. The tale shows in an inimitable way how all civilized men are interdependent. Regarded from this point of view, the author of the most widely read work of fiction It is rather the development of mind, the broadening and expansion of the mental outlook, the right turn to the mental strengthening of the power to use appropriate accomplishing useful ends. In which the farmer needs which will give him some real reason of the progressiveness and spirit of the age in which he harouse a keen interest in the principles of science as reis own vocation, will show in agriculture is an ample supply for lifelong studies which both and delight the mind, as minister to material success, general will lift agricultural out of drudgery into the do- intelligent and hopeful labor. Farmer comes with his eco- social and educational needs to care and asks what the schools made him a more successful man, a better citizen and a more intelligent and happy he expects an answer based intelligent appreciation of his well as an up-to-date under- of the functions of a public system organized in accordance with the requirements of the youth in a democratic ideals of education which firmly they may be rooted in the experience of mankind in the nevertheless growing and in the light and air of the century after Christ. Creator who receives the farmer suit, can, I believe, give an reply to his appeal. The public school system was atoped chiefly in the efforts to illiteracy among the masses. In the high schools were es-s their courses were almost ex- tterary. sons of children came to be elementary schools and hundreds in the high schools it be- arent that the old literary and the general atmosphere life on the old basis created a for the manual occupations in vast majority of all the stud- public schools must engage air after life. As the problem has presented for educators of so changing schools as to bring their Taken with a knowledge of the facts of the career of De Foe, "Robinson Crusoe" can properly be considered a story intended to illustrate the heavy burden of trouble placed upon any single individual isolated from his fellows and compelled to maintain his existence without their aid. The tale shows in an inimitable way how all civilized men are interdependent. Regarded from this point of view, the author of the most widely read work of fiction ever written becomes an object of particular interest to all thinkers upon politics.—William N. Hill, M. D., in Watson's Magazine. To "Pound" Words. When the reputability of punning is under discussion it is well to bear in mind that the very name of the jest confesses to a degree of atrocity. To "pun," according to the London Chronicle, is to "pound" words, to beat them into forced conditions, so the philologists believe. "He would pun thee into shivers with his fist." says Thersites in "Troilus and Cressida," meaning physical "pounding." "Pun" is not a slipshod development of "pound," but its original form, the Anglo-Saxon verb being "punian," and "pun" or "poun" having developed a final "d," just as "soun" became "sound" and as the illiterate turn "gown" into "gownd." Curiously enough, "pun" and "pound" have no connection with "punching" a man's head, which is simply "punishing," contracted, or with "punching" a ticket, which goes back to the Latin "pungere," to prick or puncture. Sir Humphry Davy. Sir Humphry Davy married a widow as peculiar as himself. His pet affection was a lack of time. He was always in a hurry. He pretended that he had no leisure to dress himself, and when a change of linen became necessary he simply put one shirt over another until he was known to have on five or six shirts at a time. Of course he could not wear this amount of apparel without appreciably increasing his size, and his friends not in the secret were sometimes surprised to see him fall off in apparent weight twenty pounds in a day. His wife's great anxiety was to keep him "fit for company," but as he did not care a fig for company she had no easy task, and domestic discord was a common thing. Wanted—To purchase good second-hand windmill. 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