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THE WEEKLY DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE,THr RSDAY, MAY 20. 1915.
1
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Agriculture and Our Schools
Tlic Interesting address below was
delivered by l'rof. W. 8. Ownsby,
of the Cleburne high school, to the
Johnson County Trustees' associa-
tion, and brought to lilm the united
thanks of a 11 who heard it. Pro!
Ownsby Is at the head of tho agricul-
tural class of the Cleburne High,
which showed a profit th i past year
of |4 5 per acre on the land cultivated
which surpasses anything In Texas.
Prof. Ownsby Is a f'ollln County
born find reared boy. He was reared
near Celina where his father still re-
sides. He attended school in McKln-
ney to Prof. K. O. Jones and also at-
tended school to fix-County Superin-
tendent J. H. Hill, our present city
superintendent of schools In McKln-
ney. Prof. Ownsby taught several
schools In tho county before going to
the State University at Austin where
he graduated with high honors. That
Pmf. Ownsby has risen to a high
place among the best educators of
the state Is a matter of pride to his
home people, and. especially, to theso
editors who are Ills personal friends.
The address was as follows:
As trustees of the school districts
of Johnson County, you are the un-
paid supervisors of the educational
opportunities of tho children of our
county. I sny that yon are unpaid,
but I am sure that you are altrustlc
enough to be glad to do tho work you
nre doing. I want to ask each one of
you for one hour each week to sit
quietly alone Jn his home and think
of the things that his school has
been doing. Think what it Is doing
now, and what It must do in tho fu-
tnro If our state Is to make tho pro-
gress that it should make. See to it
that your school house Is tho univer-
sity of the people nround It. See to
It that your school house is the med-
ium of exchnngo of those Ideas and
facts that will enable the people to
live more useful and efficient lives.
See to It that your school house Is
the laboratory of research for tho
people around It. By all means see
that the sentiment of y<rur school is
fair to tho business of agriculture.
Twenty years ago I attended n.
small country school. In fact, a
country school was the only kind that
I attended until I entered the Uni-
versity of Texas. Very often T picked
cotton or chopped cotton of a morn-
tug before going to school. I wont
to school two nnd n. half miles and
returned In the afternoon to continue
my farm work. Many tlmos T went
three miles In the afternoon to haul
five or six barrels of water and ro-
turned with darkness upon me. Our
school term wits foe four or flvo
months, and wo chnngod teachers
every year. No record* wore kept In
our school, ami each child classified
himself nt the beginning of a new
year. Well do I remember the dif-
ferent teachers thnt I had. Two of
them had been failures as Inwyors
and were not much better as tench-
crs. One of them, a young woman
twenty-five years old was tfci per-
sonification of dignity. She could no
more stir tho enthusiasm or excite
the ambition of tho aveiago country
youth than could an Iceberg. Another
one of my teacher* had been the
black sheep In a good family In one
of the Eastern states. He had en-
joyed some college training.
I now know that those teachers
were absolutely out of harinouy with
tho conditions around thein. Teach-
ers wero regarded as being absolute-
ly Ignorart of all the conditions uf-
fectlng agriculture and of all furin
operations. If a teacher desired to
haul a loud of wood, some lad from
the farm was sent with him to har-
ness the team and drive it for him,
for the teacher was not regarded us
knowing how to harness a team or
| how to drive It after It had been
harnessed. All that theso teachers
<1 i• I leil me to lie dissatisfied with tho
farm. Kvery tliemo thnt I wrote
was upon some subject foreign to the
farm. They asked me to write of
some political orator, or, perchance,
to describe the county seat. Not once
did they ask me to describe the con-
ditions necessary for the successful
growth of an ear of corn. Not once
did they ever strive to show me the
wonderful powers of reproduction
that nre locked up in the soil. These
teachers were absolute failures as far
M country people were concerned,
and our conditions today are very lit-
tle better than they wore then.
Texas Is an agricultural empire. In
Texas the business of agriculture Is
first. All other business an 1 all pro-
fessions nre secondary to It. The suc-
cess of our state depends primarily
upon the success of our farming op.
orations. There nre sections of tho
United States in which manufactur-
ing Is the main business, and In those
sections the people as a unit boost
i manufacturing. Tho pressure nnd
!energy of the professional man In
those sections Is used to encourage
manufacturing. There are other so",
lions In the United States in which
Mining Is t' e main business. Th's Is
very proltnl ly true of some se.-tons In
I rnns.vlvnnla. In theso mining sec-
tions tho people as a body support
mining. All they talk of Is mining.
;f,iw different ore tho conditions In
T<>ns! Again, I sa" thnt. Tex at Is an
agricultural emplri. Texas Is sup-
j < iting today four millions of p«*onlo.
[•sir hits the resources, prnporlv devel-
oped, to support a hundred mil'lons
oi people—"«very man, womnn nnd
child In the United States.
The people of Terns ns n whole do
not support or encournge tho busi-
ness of agriculture. Not long ago I
board an old man, bent with tho chill
of many winters, use a vile oath and
say that scientific agriculture was all
a lie Scientific agriculture metins,
better agriculture and more success-
ful agriculture. The farmer that Is
enabled to grow three ears of corn
where hn has grown two before bene-
fits himself and benefits those
around him. Certainly the former
that Is enabled to produce more off
of his land by better agricultural
methods raises tho price of his land,
for the land Is valued by what It Is
able to produce. The same is true
In regard to the renter. Tho renter
thnt produces more benefits himself
and benefits those around him. Tho
renter that produces as much cotton
on half the acres th .t ho hoi been
cultivating before does less work anil
enables his less successful neighbor
to have land to cultivate.
Three years ago we began f.o teach
agriculture In tho Cleburne High
school. Our main purposo wr.s to
serve the people around us and to
see that those people had a correct
attltudo toward the business of agri-
culture. Our success In many ways
has been phenomenal. We are one
of two or three high schools thnt Is
really doing anything In agriculture.
Wo are actually doing more practical
work In agriculture than any school
In the state except A. St M. College.
Wo hnve not failed nt any time to
produce three times as much as the
county nversgod. I«ast year on more
thnn five ncres of sod ground we pro-
duced nearly a bale of cotton to the
acre. All of our cotton averaged *7
per cent lint nnd graded strict mid-
dling. Time and time, we have pro-
duced ns many ns ten pounds of to-
matoes from a single vine. We havo
planted snnp hontis tho first of April
nnd by tho tenth of June wo have
harvested nt the rate of 2 cents
worth of beans per cqunre foot. Wr
hnve analysed the milk of nt least
tlftft dnlry cows, and, In so doing, we
have shown our neighbors nnd the
farmers out In the country those
cows that were "deadbeats" nnd
those that were profitable to keep.
T^ist year off of our entire crop wo
nvernged l-IK.fit per acre. Wo will
plant this year feterltn, sudan grnss,
corn, cotton, Irish potatoes, tomntoes,
peanuts nnd popcorn. Wo hnve about
ten acres of ground In n good state
of cultivation. This ten ncres con-
sists of bnck lots nnd vacant lots
nenr the high schnol building. In
connection with agriculture I have
been United Plates weather observer
of the department of agriculture.
We nre obtaining dntn dally In regard
to the weather thnt. as the dnys go
by. will be of Incalculable vslue to
tho farmers nround ns. Weather
forecasts nre not worth so very much,
but weather data, when properly
kept, becomes of Inestimable value.
Few men remember six months after-
ward when the Inst freesn or the Inst
frost came. Few men can make any-
thing like an Intelligent estimate of
the amount of rainfall after a rnln.
Not many months ago a Texan,
representing a Ti*xas company, was In
Franco aiul proposed to so11 to a
Frenchman some land In Ijimar
county. Tho Frenchman obiulne<l
the dot:i from the Pulled States wea-
ther lmtv;iu In ii.;. rd to this district,
lie found out the amount of rnlllfilt
for the ii- nnd for each month. Jlo
round out the average temperature
for each month, lie found o.it whim
the la*t free'/' nnd frost cnine, and
was thus ennbl I to bid Intelligently
upon the I:,ml. A day never passes
without at lea«t a dozen people tele-
phoning to iiif In regard to aome
weather data. These requests rank
from officials In the Santa Fe system
to some lady who wishes to go shop.
pln|r In a nearby city.
I want to a k you as trustees of
the school districts of our county to
see that the sentiment of your school,
of your teachers, of your children,
and the trustees themselves Is fair
and Just to the business of agricul-
ture. When teachers begin to coiiki
to you this spring for a position, of
course, ask tin in what grade certifi-
cate tlicv hold, luit certainly t'lml out
their attitude In regard to agricul-
ture. Ask them about the conditions
nccoHKirx for the successful growth
of a stalk of cotton. Ask them
uboiit the conditions necessary for
the germination of a grain of corn.
Ask them about the grades of cotton
and the best kind of cotton seed to
plant. Ask them about the "rag
doll" ni'thod of germinating corn.
Ask Ilieui about the Hahcock test for
butter f it. Ask them about the best
way to fuiten a Img. Ask them about
a lialiin ,'d ration for a 900-pouiul
dairy cow giving three gallons of
milk a day. Find out what they
know In regard to feterlta, sudan
grnss. cow peas anil peanuts.
Voli sin to me that It will be Im-
possible to find a teacher with such
information. Such Is certainly true.
There are today not more than one-
tenth of "lie per cent available teach-
ers for the demand In this field of
work. You may also say thnt the
laws of Texas require agriculture to
be tough! Ill all rural schools. This
Is true, but In !>!> 1-2 per cent of the
cases ai: tieii It lire better not be taught
than to he taught the way It Is taught,
In most eases your teachers nre iiii-
dolng the very things that they are
attempting to do. In nearly every
ease t hev are nauseating and disgust-
ing the hoys and gills III their classes
by Ihoir lack of knowledge and Inter-
est In the subject.
The truth of the matter Is that the
trustees of the state of Texas, the
teacher" and the farmers themselves
hnve nut demanded thnt the teacher
do anything In regard to teaching ag-
riculture, nnd this Is one time In
which I lie teachers have done exact-
ly what was demanded of thein. Irf't
loo repeat again that Cleburne lllgh
School Is doing more practical work
In agriculture tlinn nny school In tho
state except A. & M. College. Those
schools in the stnte posing as prepar-
ing teachers for you aro really doing
nothing in tho way of turning out
efficient agricultural teachers. Now,
you mini sny that they hnven't tile
money to buy land, to buy tools or
stock will) which to loach correctly
agrculliire. Tills may be true, but.
they spend thousands of dollars to
equip laboratories for chemistry and
zoology. They spend thousands of
dollars for the touching of Herman,
hatln and Crook. Understand, we
nre not crllh islng our school authori-
ties for toachlng theso things. They
are all good as fur as they go, but wo
nre criticising our school system for
Its nttude toward tho business of ag-
rleiilture. Too long havo tho trus-
tees of Texas taken the attltudo that
if the teacher could teach agriculture
without spending anything It was all
right. Wouldn't It rem My be a pity If
n school should spend a little to teach
the very thing upon which the suc-
cess of our people depends?
See that each one of your schools
has from two to flvo acres for prac-
tical work In agriculture. Have the
children of your school Improve your
cottonseed nnd your seed corn. If
you hnve any plnnts that you want
tried in particular, see that tho school
does this work. Own a Hahcock mn-
chlne, and have the children deter-
mine the good dairy cows of your
community. Have your children
keep a series of reliable wenther
data.
From the farm In most case* the
best blood lius been going to the pro-
fessions. See to It that the attitude
of your school Is such that tho
stronger boys In your communities
will go nway and take their college
course, but that they will return to
make our most successful farmers.
Again let mo repent, see that tho at-
tltmlo of your school Is fair to farm-
ing. See thnt your teachers nnd
young children aro really Interested
about the big business of agriculture.
.Minaon County Summer Normal.
In connection with the subject of
agriculture It is extremely pertinent
at this time to tho teachers, the trus-
tees, nnd the people In general, to re-
member that W. S. Owensby Is con-
ductor of tho Johnson County sum-
mer normnl, from Juno 7th lo July
Kitli, nnd thnt he will teach the sub-
ject of ngrlculturc, He will make It
one of the big fenlure. In the normal
nnd will put Ills entire enthusiasm
Into tho work. He nfflrnis thnt no
other normal In the stnto will do
more real work In ngrlculturc than Is
done In Cleburne. It Is entirely safe
to assume thnt but very few of tho
ntlior normals In their work In tills
subject will anything like approach
the work given in the Johnson Coun-
t\ normnl. Special attention will be
paid to locnl conditions nnd to sug-
geitoil lnhorntory nnd field work.
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Hand Notice.
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reaily to furnish mimic for any kind of
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DtAZIKH, Director, McKlnney, Test.
HEARTY OLII MAN.
■tains fonnty t 'It I aim In tlst year
Visits Collin County Son.
It. K\ Donaldson, of Mosquito In
Southeast Collin, Is at McKlnney
serving on the Jury this week. Ho re-
ports crops to lie looking fairly good
In his suction now since we havo had
a few warm days. He states that his
father, W. J. W. Donaldson, of I'oint,
Itnins county, visited lilm two days
last week and then went on to Cop-
pell, Dallas county, to visit some
trrnnilchililrcii. W. J. W. Donaldson
Is no years old past, luit enjoys good
health and travels ulono on* Ions
Journeys In a ImikkT. He wus In his
own luiggy hy himself on this trip,
lie farmed until he was 81 yean old,
doing his own work. Ilo ''an see to
read and writes Ills own letters. In
fact, Mr. Donaldson Is a wonderfully
well preserved in nil for Ills udvanced
ago and hlds fair to reach tlio con-
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which few men attain to.
Miss Reliecoa K. I/ivell has gonn
to l<~t. Smith, Ark., to spend her sum-
mer vacation at the homo of her
father, W. T. l<ovcll, who lives there.
MImk Rebecca has taught three term*
of the Woodlawn school, three miles
northeast of McKlnney, where she la
very popular as a teacher. Before
leaving she called to subscribe for
The Weekly l>emocrat-Oa«otto to b
sent to her father at Ft. Smith. i
W. C. Howard of Closr I.ako or-
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ette. We hope that he will like the
paper. He Is a fine young man. a
hard working farmer, and w> are
pleased to add his name to our fast
Kl'OWtllg list.
J. C. Samuels of Paducali, Texas.
step-son of It. ti. Welch, Is visiting
hero.
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Ami I do Clock, Watch and Jewelry Repairing, too.
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McKINNEY, TEXAS.
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Perkins, Tom W. & Wilson, Walter B. The Weekly Democrat-Gazette (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1915, newspaper, May 20, 1915; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth293228/m1/9/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.