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Agricultural Course For Ru
ral District Sohools,
AS NOW TAUGHT IN GERMANY
There tho Common Schoolo Have a
Garden Attached and Pupils are
Given Practical Instruction In Ag
riculture.
Most of the common schools In the
smaller German villages have attached
to them a small, garden. Though these
gardens are generally for the use of
the teacher and his family, occasion
ally some wideawake teacher uses his
as a means of Instruction. Here he
takes his pupils to show them how
ptants grow from the Beed to full ma
turity. The nature charts used in the
schools to teach plant and insect life
are supplemented by observation of
real plants, flowers, fruit trees, insects,
birds and beeB.
Mr. 0. B. Smith, of the office of ex
periment stations, United States de
partment of agriculture, has given us
the benefit of his observations at Alf-
ter, a village of 2,000 inhabitants, in
the German Rhine province, between
Bonn and Cologne. Mr. Smith, who
visited this village in 1899, gives the
following account of it: “The whole
region lying about the village is inten
sively farmed and forms practically
one vast garden. Vegetables alternate
wit hbrchards, with occasional strips
of grain or forage plants. The school
is what is knft^fe as a ‘people's school, 1
This is the common Bchool of Ger
many. Only the fundamental branches
are taught in these Bohools, and the
whole course is completed in eight
years. Ahe Alf ter common school con
tains 400 pupils and six teachers. In
this school, as in all others in this
province, two hours instruction week
ly in fruit culture, gardening and gen
eral farming during the last two years
of the course is required. This has
been compulsory by law since 1895.
Outline suggestions for this work are
cent the principal of the school by
the provincial government, as follows:
First Year.
“April and May (1.) Inner structure
of plants, plant cells and tissues and
their functions. (2) Other divisions of
plants: (a) the roots, their function in
the nourishment of plants by tho ab
sorption of mineral matter, as phos
phorous, potassium, sodium, iron, chlo-
rln and water; (b) the trunk, its
branches and buds, the structure of
the cambium and the occurrence of
lg gre
Tub
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course goes on through every
month of the year, describing plant
life in all its stages, the improvement
of the soil, the using up of plant food
and its replacement by fertilizers of
various kinds, the influence of the cli
mate on plants, fruit culture and the
management of fruit trees, the ene
mies of fruits and vegetables and how
to get rid of them.
In February and March of the next
year’s course the various minerals are
discussed. In April, May and June
garden work is discussed from the lay
ing out of plats to the utilization of
vegetables.
In the latter part of June of the
second year’s course the pupils study
field work, plowing, harrowing and
rolling.
“In July they study the various field
crops, including clovers and grasses;
In August crop rotation and methods
of manuring.
In September and October they dis
cuss the various enemies of the differ-
ent drops. In ^December tho subject
of study is domestic animals, and in
January, February and March the
physiology of man.
The plan thus laid down is meant
to be suggestive, the teacher being al
lowed to exercise his individual judg
ment as to time and method of pre
senting the different subjects and to
make his instruction conform to the
agricultural needs of the district in
Which his school is located.
Thus at this German village nearly
every owner or renter of even a small
piece of ground is an experienced gar-
dner, understanding thoroughly the
value of cultivation and the money
worth of every pound of compost. The
farmer’s wife and children assist him
in his labors and the children at an
early age have a very clear under
standing of garden operations.
The school garden is intensively
farmed and made a source of revenue.
The bees are also made* a subject
of special study.
It is not to be Inferred that every
German neighborhood is fortunate
enough to have such a school, and the
teachers who make use of the school
garden for instruction are the excep
tion. But the success of the few
schools 6f this sort prove their worth.
The interesting article of Mr. C. B.
Smith was recommended for publica
tion by Mr. A. C. True, director of ex
periment stations, and its publication
Was authorized by Hon. James Wilson,
United States secretary of agriculture.
In view of the fact that the desira
bility of an agricultural course for the
schools in* rural districts Is being so
generally discussed we thought that
some useful hints might be derived
from the account of this practical Ger
man school.
GEORGIA AN EXPOSITION ©TATE,
There can be no doubt that our state
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all her southern sisters in the matter
of Expositions and Fairs. We began
with the Cotton States Exposition in
’81; followed that up with two Others,
the last in ’95, each larger and better
than the one preceding it, and between
whiles lield a State Fair every year,
as well as the Atlanta Fair, which suc
ceeded to the great Expositlon'of *95,
We have drawn largely upon the good
will and sympathy of our sister BtateS,
the Union over, but bdeause of con
stitutional restrictions the state as
such has not been able to do much for
the Expositions held in other commu
nities. By some means an exhibit,
partial only, was made of our min
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cally the same material is now .on
view at Charleston, but the state is
not fairly represented. It is too late
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ton of the wonderful and varied prod
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our neighbors and the world the kind
of men and women we produce. It la
not too late for that kind of an exhibit,
and after all that is the best kind.
Show us your citizenry and we will
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Agricultural Progress in the South.
Secretary Wilson, of the United
States department of agriculture, in
a survey of agricultural progress in
the south in the same publication,
urgfes a greater average yield per acre
than a greater acreage of cotton, the
return, as far as possible, to the soil
of the fertilizing ingredients of cotton
seed and greater attention to live
stock industries, and he adds: “I be
lieve that the south will not much
longer be known and thought of pri
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a great and prosperous region of va
ried agricultural Industries. 1 With the
great industrial progress of the south
ern states and the development of
their wonderful mineral and manufac
turing resources comes the best of all
markets for the farmer—the great
home market. More and more I hope
to see the agriculture of the south di
versified as this great home market
expands. Let the cotton crop continue
to increase in total production, bu-t
let its growth be rather by a higher
average per acre than by a very large
extension of the area under this crop.
Let southern farmers keep the plant
food at home and send the product
of the farm to market In the form ol
manufactured articles (manufactured
on the farm by nature’s processes)
rather than in the form of raw mate
rial. Let them grade up their flocks
and herds and keep many more of all
kinds of domestic animals. Let them
renovate the soil by the use of legumes
and save all the fertilizing material
that the farm itself produces. Then
will the agriculture of the south show
in the census to be taken in 1910 ad
vances greater by far than even the
great progress made in the last twen
ty years of her history.’’
The course of the south is onward
and upward. Let it be the ambition
of every farmer to help on the good
pause ha Georgia.
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