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Teach Agriculture in
all Public Schools.
There has been some reaction
and considerable disappointment
resulting from efforts to teach
agriculture in the public grammar
schools, especially when attempts
have been made to teach agricul
ture, say to the fourth, fifth and
sixth grades. In fact, there are
those who state that agriculture
cannot be taught in these grades.
If this were true, then nothing
could be taught to the pupils in
these grades. It is simply an
absurdity. Agriculture can be,
taught to any pupil to whom any
thing else can be taught. If a
teacher can teach a pupil that five
and seven marbles make twelve
marbles, he can teach that same
pupil that if an apple twig grows
five inches one year and seven j
inches the next, it has grown |
twelve incnes in the two years.
The numbers are the same, the
only difference being that in the
one case, in addition to the j
arithmetic taught he has called
to the attention of the pupil a lot 1
of marbles, while in the other
case he has taught an agricultu
ral fact, namely that an apple
twig grows about five to seven j
inches in a year.
The boy or girl of ten to twelve
years of age who has lived on
the farm knows considerable
about agriculture; and this is
especially true if the parents are
educated, know the essential
facts of agriculture, and farm
successfully. If the essential
facts underlying agricultural
practices can be learned by a boy
from eight to twelve years of age
on the farm, these facts can also
be taught in the schools, and it is
simply ridiculous for anyone to
contend that they cannot.
The difficulties which have been
encountered in the attempts to
teach agriculture to fifth and
sixth grade pupils are not due to
any lack of the teachability of
agriculture; agricultural facts can
be taught as well as commercial
or any other kind of facts, but
the difficulties are in our city
made text-books and our ineffi
cient teachers.
Os course, the lack of educa
tion, especially along agricultu
ral lines, in the homes or on the
farms, also offers an obstacle to
the teaching of agriculture in the
public schools. If the parents of
the pupils were educated there
would be much less difficulty
in educating the children, Lut
the fact that most parents are
not educated for efficiency in
their business of farming makes
it all the more necessary that the
effort be continued and much in
crease to teach at least some
agriculture in the rural schools.
The education of the rural pupil
in agriculture should start with
the very lowest grades and con- >
tinue as long as he continues in '
a rural school, and this could be
done, and the agriculture of the i
South revolutionized in a genera- j
tion, without in the least lessen
ing the teaching of language, j
arithmetic and geography, the
three subjects taught in all
schools. But before this can be
efficiently done there must be a
different spirit developed in the i
schools, in those who control
them, and in the homes of the
South.
First, those who direct or con
trol our rural schools must be
educated in agriculture. This is
the largest task of all. They
are now either educated against
agriculture or not educated at all.
Second, so long as over 40 per
cent of the people on the farms,
the patrons of the schools, feel
that they can get no outside help,
no education in agricultural work,
there will be no force brought to
bear on those who control our
schools which "will compel them :
to make a genuine effort to have j
agriculture taught in our schools.
Third, there must be more in
ducement offered teachers to edu
cate themselves for efficiency.
They must be selected more care-!
fully and paid more money, but.
.
beyond all, there must be a dis- !
ferent spirit developed in rural ■
teachers and rural schools. They
must first be able to see that l
there is no less “arithmetic” in j
a problem which requires the i
calculation of the amount of ni
trogen in 100 pounds of cotton
seed meal which contains 6 per
cent of nitrogen, than in the
problem of finding the interest on
SIOO at 0 per cent. They must
learn that something should be
taught in the school that is not
now in our text-books. The de
velopment of a different attitude
toward rural and agricultural
matters as related to education
and culture must force those who
control our schools and make our
I text-books to produce and adopt
text-books suitable for use in
! rural schools and the teaching of
rural problems. The old fallacy
that the educational and cultural
| values of a subject depend upon
the kind of subject, or that these
! are lessened because the facts
taught and the mind training se
cured make for efficiency in the
daily work of life, must be ex
ploded in the minds of those who
control our rural schools as it has
been in the minds of the few who
have been educated along voca
tional lines. About the greatest
obstacle to culture morality and
high-minded living today, as ever
in the past, is inefficiency and
grinding poverty.
Agriculture can be taught in
any grade of the grammar school
when the right spirit and the
knowledge is developed in our
rural school teachers.—Progress
ive Farmer.
Tobacco Growers Held
Big Sale Last Week.
Though the day broke Thurs
day with lowering clouds, the
tobacco growers began to arrive
at the Vidalis Tobacco Warehouse
at an early hour, and in spite of
the showers that fell intermit
tently all through the day, nearly
one hundred thousand pounds of
the “weed” were sold at auction
to the representatives of the big
tobacco manufacturers who have
been sent here to buy the product
of this section. Tobacco was
brought in on wagons, trucks,
automobiles and over the rail
roads for a distance of fifty or
sixty miles, and the prices paid
justified the prediction of Messrs.
Warren & Pollard, Lessees of
the Vidalia Warehouse, that the
Vidalia market would be as good
as any in the state.
Os course the prices received
in this sale are not as good as
may be expected in other sales
later on during the season, by
reason of this being the bottom
crop, and the growers are all
seemingly satisfied with the re
sults of the initial sale in this
market.
j The tobacco brought all the
i way from four cents per pound
|to well up in the forties, and we
consider this an excellent show
ing when it is remembered that
j nearly all the growers are novi
ces in the tobacco industry.
Sales will be held regularly
four days each week from now
until the end of the season.
Vidalia Advance.
i
Bankers Help Club Members
: That club work is receiving the
approval and support of business
men was illustrated when the
Florida State Bankers' Associa
tion, at its recent annual meeting
ing in Jacksonville, appropriated
#3OO to pay for three scholarships
at the State agricultural college.
The scholarships are open to all j
i club mepnbers in the State. One j
is assigned to south Florida, one
: to central Florida, and the other
to west Florida. The quality of
club work, together with written
examinations, will determine the
awards. The Florida Federation j
of Women’s Clubs for several
years has offered a prize of SSO
to the bov making the best record
in the corn club. This prize has
been of great value in keeping
up interest in the corn club work. 1
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR—THURSDYA, JULY 24, 1019
Notice of New Districts.
Georgia —Montgomery County.
Notice is hereby given to the
public:
That by order of the Commis
sioners of Roads and Revenues of
! said county, granted on the 6th
day of May, 1919, that certain
Georgia Militia Districts lines;
were changed, so as to include ;
land embrace the territory as
j shown below in tw’o districts
; respectively, and known as Tarry-
I town G. M. District and Kibbee
j Tiger District; the territory em
braced and included in the Tarry
town district being as follows:
The district line around the same
beginning at the south-east cor
ner of said 1654th G. M. district
where the same intersects the
territory composing the old 1668th
G. M. district and the 16915 t G.
M. district of said county and
running from thence a straight
line in a northern direction along
the old line dividing the said
1654th G. M. district and the
said 16915 t G. M. district until it
intersects the Treutlen county
line, and running from thence a
southwesterly course along the
Treutlen county line to the Bar
wick Bridge on Red Bluff Creek,
thence down Red Bluff Creek to
the Oconee river to Adams Land
ing to where the same intersects
the 1343rd G. M. district thence
along the line of the 1343rd G.
M. district along the channel of
Little Cypress Creek to a point
where the 1343rd district line
leaves said Little Cypress Creek;
thence along the line between
1343rd G. M. District and 1654
G. M. district in an easterly di
rection to where the line strikes
the western corner of the 1668th
G. M. district; thence a southeast
course along the line of the pres
ent 1668th G. M. district to the
Tarry town public road; thence a
northeast course along the old
1668th G. M. distric line to the
Louisville public road; thence
north along the Louisville public
road to the 1668th district and
1654 district line; thence a north
easterly course along the line di
viding the 1654th G. M. district
and 1668th G. M. district to the
beginning point, so that all the
remaining in the county of Mont
gomery after the creation of
Treutlen county, in the 1654th
G. M. district and and the 12215 t
G. M. district and all the terri
tory west of the Louisville Public
road now in the or formerly in
the 1668th G. M. district is in
cluded in the Tarrytown (1654th
G. M. district) of said county.
And the lines around and em
bracing the territory in the Kib
bee-Tiger district being as fol
lows:
Beginning at Wickstrom’s
Bridge on Pendleton creek where
the Montgomery county and
Treutlen county lines intersect
said creek and running from
thence a southeasterly course
along the dividing line between
said Montgomery and Treutlen
counties to the district line di
viding the 1654th G. M. district
from the old 16915 t G. M. district;
and running from thence a south
erly course along the old line be
tween the 1654th G. M. district
and the old 16915 t G. M. district
of said county, until it strike;
the old 1668th G. M. district lines
thence along the line between
the 1654th G. M. district and the
old 1668th G. M. district line in a
southerly course until it strikes
the Louisville public road; thence
along the Louisville public road
in a southerly direction until it
strikes a point where the old
1668th G. M. district line leaves
said Louisville public road; thence
southeast along a straight line to
the northwest corner of the 1561
G. M. district; thence east along
the line of the 15615 tG. M. dis
trict and the 16915 t to the Toombs
county line, thence in a northerly
direction along the line dividing
Montgomery and Toombs coun
ties to the point of beginning.
Notice of Local Legislation.
To whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that
there will be introduced in the
present session of the Legislature
of Georgia a bill, of which the
following is the caption:
An Act to amend an Act en
titled “An Act to incorporate the
town of Uvalda in the county of
Montgomery, State of Georgia,”
approved July 22, 1910, so as to
| give said town of Uvalda the
; power and authority to contract
debts and issue bonds of said
town for the improvement of
said town and for all purposes
under the limitations of the
| Constitution of the State of Geor
gia applicable to municipalities;
j and to authorize the mayor and
council of said town of Uvalda,
in their discretion, to levy a tax
for school purposes upon all the
| property, real and personal,
within the limits of the said
Town of Uvalda, and for other
1 purposes.
I MONEY IN THE j||
BANK I
The public is hereby advised that I have per
fected arrangements to make a few short term
loans, running until the fall. If you need
I money to hold your cotton, for investment, or ||
for other immediate use, see me at once.
You can get the money the same day you | &
make the application. Supply limited. $$
SEE ME AT ONCE
IJ. Wade Johnson |
MT. VERNON, GA. |
Highest Prices Paid;
for Live Stock.
We are constantly in the mar
ket for cattle and hogs. Many
years experience qualifies us to
offer superior advantages to the
producers of this section. We
are in position to handle your
business in a most satisfactory j
manner. Get our prices.
W. D. &C. W. Peterson, I
9192 m Ailey, Ga.
Post Your Lands.
Open your woodland to the pub
lic and soon there will not be a
stick of wood or timber on it.
Put the public on notice by post-!
ing up printed notices. Get the !
printed notices at The Monitor
office, 10 cents each.
LOANS ON FARM
LANDS.
on improved farm
lands of Montgomery County can
be placed promptly at 5 l-2c in
terest in amounts of SI,OOO and
above, with the privilege of re
paying part of the principal at
any interest bearing periods in
amounts of SIOO or multiples
thereof, thereby stopping the in
terest on amount paid. Loans
can be made for periods of 57,
or 10 years to suit t,he borrower.
Commissions charged are reason
able. M. B. Calhoun,
Mt. Vernon, Ga,
R. E. Ward,
Soperton, Ga.
I)uroc Pigs.
Three mos. old: thoroughbred:
and subject to registration: male
and a female. For sale. See
T. B. Conner,
6203 Mt. Vernon, Ga.
M. B. CALHOUN
Atty at Law,
Mt Vernon, Georgia
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Don’t Cough Until Weak—
Elderly people and others who
auffer from atubbom or chronic cough]
/ that weur down the atrenglh, lower vitaiit/
and diaturb deep, will find in Fairy's Horn j
and Tar a moat helpful and healing medicine.
The very first dose 3 bring comfort
and ease, a. in it you get the curative in
fluence of pine tar arid other healing ingred
ient*, together with the mollifying laxative
effect of honey. .
Foley’s Honey •“* Tar
is recommended also for bronchial
and la grippe cougha, boaracneaa, ticklir.t
throat, and atuffy, wheezy breathing. The
wise mother know* it atopa croun and it i]
juat whut children ought t j have for feverhh
cold*, coug'-a, “anufliea,” whooping coug'i
land measles cough. It contains no opiates.
" I was troubled with a eoujtb, arid would be corr
pletely exhausted niter each fit cf violent ec ijltinl.
I bought a bottle of holey'* Honey anil Tar and
before 1 had taken it the couAh'mA spells bad entirely
ceiled. ! t»?fh to cav it can't be beat. K* C.
Collins, Jlurnciial, N. J.
*Mv daughter bud ;; bad cane of chronic cou*b. We
finally gave her Foley's Honey and Tar. Its
eflrt t with a I mot I immediate for after u few Java
the trouble entirely diimpyeared and baa uot re*
tufued." Knurit Lee, Wamiaaka, Minn.
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