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"■ " ■ ■ ■ ...... A . 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 ’ • ■ 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 has set the example and the pace fof 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 erals at the Pan-American, and practi cally the same material is now .on view at Charleston, but the state is not fairly represented. It is too late for us to get up an exhibit for Charles ton of the wonderful and varied prod ucts of our farms, mines, forests and factories, but we can go over and show 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 tell you what kind of a state you have, Moreover it is the sort of exhibit which at this time will be most appre ciated by our brethren of South Caro lina. They desire our presence; in fact, they need it. They have con structed the greatest industrial enter prise our section has ever seen. It is Intended to help the whole south, and will do so, but our people have not ap preciated Its magnitude or beauty, and have therefore not given it the support which it so well deserves. Railroad rateB to Charleston are phenomenally low, the weather Is delightful there, the trip is a short one, nearly every one can spare the time and money re quired and no one will regret it. $25,000.00 Given Away. In the past year Dr. R. Y. Pierce has given away copies of his great work, The People’s Common Sense Medioal Adviser, at an expense to him of $26,000.00 exclusive of post age. This standard book on medi cine and hygiene oontains 1008 pa ges and more than 700 illustrations. It treats of the greatest and gravest problems of human life in simple English, from a common sense point of view. It answers those questions of sex which linger unspoken upon the lips of youth abd maiden. It is essentially a family book, and its ad vice in a moment of sudden illness or accident may be the qieans of savin g a valuable life. This great book is sent absolutely free on re ceipt, of stamps to defray the cost of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in paper bind ing, or 31 stamps for cloth covers. Address Dr. R. Y. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. The south can regain prestige, become and remain powerful and wealthy, not by jugglery and fraud of politics, but by higher statesman ship; not by contracted, mean prej udice; not by keeping any portion of citizenship in ignorance; not by in justice and wrong, but by proper education, fitting our people for life work and for attainable destiny.—J. L. M] Curry. MORE COTTON to the acre at less cost, means more money. More Potash in the Cotton fertilizer improves the soil; increases yield—larger profits, Send for our book (free) explaining how to get these results. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. 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 marily as the ‘land o’ cotton,’ but as 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. DEAFNESS OR HARD HEARING ARE NOW CURABLE by our new invention. 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