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KILN CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL—1918-19.
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and clcsewhere for a consolidated school district, which was er cd by over one hundred and twenty-five tax-payers and electors c (i'strict. The petitions were presented to the School Board ir time when they were acted upon favorably, the result being the magnificent two-story structure building erected on the pi location, that one secs on his journey from Bay St. Louis to Christian.
'I he Kiln Consolidated School was formed of the following-!, schools: Nicaise, McLeod, Fenton, Silver Hill and Bayou comprising a district of fifty-two square miles, with a taxing u about five hundred thousand dollars. The special levy now in is ten mills or one cent on the dollar, but by another year five wiil easily operate the school. The building, together wit equipment, cost ten thousand dolars. The enrollment to dat reached three hundred nnd fifty pupils, one hundred and twent of each are transported in motor trucks. This means of trans) tion is rapid, gives results and is, therefore, cheapest in the lonj The school at present is under the able management of
S.	P. Powell, assisted by an able corps of six instructors. The lar course for the student body has been well planned, as w seen, and, in addition to music a domestic science teacher has employed for the entire session.
CONSOLIDATED HIGH SCHOOL—1913-Iff.
Agricultural
NrrtUT,
BY ADOLPH DEPREO, Secretary of School Board.
Among the many problems confronting the people of the rural iljtricts, the agricultural seems to be the greatest. I make this state-.■ i*.• iit because it is evident that in the early tomorrow our boy and rirls will be compelled to go to the farm for their livelihood. Fur-i.crmorc, it is true that from the farm all other ndustries are estab-!r d and maintained and if the source from which the support, comes iivj*. kept in line with the growing demand;, the fall i) not fir ahJid »•> hy should not the agricultural question, then, be the greatest?
In our efforts to build and equip, the Model Consolidated School if the State, I shall endeavor to bring this question to a close conjuration of the people during my administration.
A year ago our faculty made a fight for Home Science to be put .. 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 crops as it is to teach our girls how to make and keep a home? •very si'iise of the word, it is aiul now is the time to start.
U'e have ten acres adjoining ou rschool, practically all can(bc culti-Ucd, and our efforts at present are to make a modern school garden i. which our boys and girls can see and study the real practical •vork. We want our pupils to sec the various kinds of crops, actual-
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