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KILN CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL—1918-Iff.
Agrirullural NpmIh,
BY ADOLPH DEPREO,
Secretary of School Board.
Among the many problems confronting the people of the rural districts, the agricultural seems to be the greatest. I make this statement because it is evident that in the early tomorrow our boy and girls will be compelled to go to the farm for their livelihood. Furthermore, it is true that from the farm all other ndustries are established and maintained and if the source from which the support comes is not kept in line with the growing demands, the fall is not far ahsad Why should not the agricultural question, then, be the greatest?
In our efforts to build and equip, the Model Consolidated School of the State, I shall endeavor to bring this question to a close consideration of the people during my administration.
A year ago our faculty made a fight for Home Science to be put in the school, saying, “Let us teach our girls how to go into a home, make and keep it." This is essential and I greatly approve of it, but is it not as important to teach our boys how to make a farm and grow crops as it is to teach our girls how to make and keep a home? In every sense of the word, it is and now is the time to start.
We have ten acres adjoining ou rschool, practically all can be cultivated, and our efforts at present are to make a modern school garden in which our boys and girls can see and study the real practical work. We want our pupils to see the various kinds of crops, actual-
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ly growing; watch their development, learn about their requirements, their history and uses. In doing this we hope to have the work correlated with every other school activity; the language work, the drawing work, number •work, etc.
Being interested as I am in the success of our school, I promise any support, with the other educational workers, to build an institution thut will take care of our needs.
TRANSPORTATION,
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