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SELL COUNTY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 19U
SOME INTERESTING
FACTS AND FIGURES
(Contributed by the Agricultural high school in each judicial district
L
and Mechanical College of Texas.)
More so than ever before, are the
people of Texas awake to the import-
ance of education along those lines
which will fit the boy for a profes-
sion or a pursuit that will make of
him a good citizen, a producing citi-
zen, and one capable of maintaining
himself and his family in a manner
that will do credit to decency and
gond living.
It was to encourage such educa-
tion that in 1862 Congress passed an
act providing for the establishment
©f what are now known as the “Land
Grant Colleges.’’ These colleges are
located in every state, they each have
a land grant endowment from the
federal government, and they are re-
cfuired to teach agriculture, the me-
chanic arts and military science.
The Agricultural and Mechanical
<• /liege of Texas is one of these. It
\ oened for the reception of stu-
en October 1876, and by the
«©venv /bf the State with the fed-
eral government, it is required that
it teach these professions that are
related to mechanic arts and agricul-
ture. The College however did not
start out under the most auspicious
circumstances. Those who were in
charge gave more attention to the
classics than to industrial education.
The result was a'ntrong opposition to
the college as it was organized and
•jm 1879 a complete change took
place, a new faculty and new officers
being elected. Since that time the
institution has been giving especial
attention to instruction along the
lines provided for the congressional
act that gave the institution its life
and being.
So well is the College now fulfill-
ing the demands that are upon it,
that it has the largest enrollment
in its history. During the past
year there have heen a number of
new features installed at the College,
thus expanding and enlarging its
usefulness. Provision has been made
for a course in public speaking, for
for a four years course for teachers,
and a two years course that will en-
able young men to secure certificates
to teach, so that they may supply the
very large demand that exists for
teachers in the common schools. A
chair of highway engineering has
been established, and a free corres-
pondence course, a winter term for
practical farmers that will be com-
menced in January, and arrange-
ments are making for “short courses”
in agriculture to be held in the sev-
eral communities.
Throughout our entire
___magaral
among all industr
naturally creates tTT Kedhes’
‘ior technical education. The train-
ing of young men for industrial per-
mits, which Jpfcrmer times was con-
siderded a flmily affair, is now ac-
knowledged by the wisest statesmen
to he a function of the State.
So strong has the sentiment grown
-in favor of instruction in agriculture
during the last few years that the
new State of Oklahoma adopted pro-
vision in the constitution requiring
the elements of horticulture, stock
feeding and domestic science to be
taught in the common schools. So
great has been the progress in agri-
cultural education during the past
twelve years, stimulated by the work
of the State agricultural colleges,
the experiment stations and the de-
partment of agriculture at Washing-
ton, that the number of students tak-
ing agricultural courses has increased
during that time from 4000 to 14,-
M0.
Ninety graduates of these courses
in 1907 accepted positions in the ag-
ricultural colleges and experiment
stations or in the department at
Washington at salaries calculated V
stimulate the ambition of our most
promising young men. And what is
more gratifying still is the fact that
the tide is turning from the agricul-
tural colleges back to the farm. It
has been ascertained from the presi-
dents of these colleges that graduates
of agricultural courses who go back
to the farms meet with signal success
and soon become positive factors in
stimulating their neighbors to adopt
methods which finally revolutionize
their several communities.
The progress during the last few
years in secondary elementary edu-
cates in agriculture has been mar-
velous. In 1896 Minnesota had the
only State agricultural high school in
the United States. Alabama had al-
ready provided for nine districts ag-
ricultural schools. The teaching of
agriculture in the public elemetary
schools was scarcely thought of at
that time. In 1908 there were fif-
teen agricultural schools of the Min-
nesota type, and forty other agricul-
tural high schools receiving State
aid, sixteen private endowed colleges
and high schools giving instruction
in agriculture and 150 State and
county normal schools preparing
young people to teach agriculture,
and over 250 public and private high
schools and academies giving some
instruction in agriculture.
There were sixteen institutions of-
fering correspondence and reading
courses in agriculture, and twenty-
six private or elementary agriculture
schools. In addition to the constitu-
tion of Oklahoma requiring the
teaching of agriculture in all of the
public schools, the legislature of the
State has provided for four State
Normal Schools with departments
for agriculture, and an agricultural
of the State. The last legislature
of this State provided that agricul-
ture shall be taught in each of the
normal schools, and at the same time,
appropriated money for the teaching
of agriculture in each senatorial dis-
trict in the State. The legislature of
Virginia has appropriated $20,000
for the instruction in agriculture,
home economics and mechanic arts,
and ten district agricultural high
schools, and Michigan and Mississip-
pi have made provision for county
agricultural high schools.
Agriculture is required by law to
be taught in rural schools in thirteen
states. In thirty-one states it is en-
couraged by State and county school
officers. In response to a growing
sentiment in favor of secondary and
elementary instruction in agriculture
in public schools and other stimu-
lants given by the Nelson amendemnt
allowing the land grant colleges to
devote a part of the increased Fed-
eral aid to the special preparation
of instructors for teaching the ele-
metns of agriculture and mechanic
arts, about half of these institutions
are now offering training courses for
teachers of agriculture ranging from
courses of a few weeks to the regular
four year course with additional
graduate-' work.
In addition to the agricultural
training being given by the land
grant colleges, secondary schools,
and the common schools, we have
1143 persons on the staffs of the ex-
periment stations, 417 of whom as-
sist in the farmers’ institutes. These
stations published, in 1908, ,409sbul-
letins, which went to 888,829 names.
Reports show a marked increase in
the number of farmers’ institutes
and attendance upon the same dur-
ing the last few years. In the year
1908 the number of institutes held
under the supervision of the depart-
ment at Washington in . forty-five
States and Territories, was 45 43, an
increase of 672 in one year. The
total attendance in forty-four of
these States the same year was 2,-
198,268, an increase of 508,416 over
the prevous year. At the same tme
special institutes were held with a re-
ported attendance of over 3 40,000,
making a total for the year, in all
forms of institutes, 2,43_
Over one ^.thousand
employed
ing insti
stitutes.,
cultural'
ment s£ ^ e
the
aie^iS one of'the
age. Seventeen states have oigan-
zed for the dissemination of agricul-
tural information among rural people
by mhat is known as the college ex.
texsion plan.
The State whch has taken the lead
in this work is Iowa. The State Agri-
cultural College of that State sent
out, a few years ago, a corps-of ten
expert lecturers for the purpose of
giving instruction to classes of farm-
ers, remaining one week in a locality.
Those who attended the meetings
were divided into sections or groups
corresponding with the main feat-
ures of agriculture of the various
communities. A distinct course of in-
struction is provided for each group,
one upon stock raising, one upon
corn judging, another upon domestic
science and the like. The attendance
upon these courses has been very
great, and the interest in the instruc-
tion given has been very satisfactory.
So much so that the college feels jus-
tified in not only continuing the
work, but it has been greatly en-
larged since it was commenced, and
different schemes of instruction have
been prepared rendering them more
practical and complete and better
suited to the great mass of farmers.
Eight states conducted railroad
specials. The attendance of seven of
these was 218,710. Ten States held
movable schools of agriculture, with
an attendance of 6849, and two
states held field meetings continuing
for nine days, attended by 4100 per-
sons, making a total atendance upon
these forms of activity of 3 49,414,
which added to 2,093,268, which at-
tended the regular institutes, makes
a total of 2,438,782. In addition to
this number there was the attend-
ance upon women institutes in fif-
teen States, 632 meetings; boys’ in-
stitutes in five States, 164 meetings;
normal institutes in five States,
street fairs in one State, and a large
number of armer picnics, addressed
by farmers’ institute lecturers for
which no record of attendance is
given.
In the State of Michigan in 190 9
institutes were held in seventy-five
counties, and in all 34 8 sessions of
county institutes, with a total at
tendance of 62,000. In addition to
these institutes there were 3 29 one
day institutes, with 815 sessions, and
an attendance of 85,000 people. The
institute train made a run of eleven
days with sixty-five stops, at which
there Avas a total attendance of all
the institutes; including the normal
institutes at the College, of 164,8 48.
There is another force over active
in the dissemination of agricultural
knowledge among the great mass of
people, whose far-reaching influence
we have no way of estimateing,
mean the press. Millions of farmers
are reading the cream of bulletins
published by the department of agri-
culture and the experiment stations
that are reproduced by the agricul-
tural, weekly and semi-weekly papers
published in the United States.
What is the meaning of the public
cry for agricultural education?
Is it the empty vaporing of a mis-
guided people? Is this kind of train-
ing paying back what it cost?
There is no way by which you can
estimate the value in dollars and
cents of any character of education,
but no intelligent man will stop in
this progressive age to ask, “What
benefit does the farm and the State
derive from agricultural education?”
Just as well ask what benefit does the
world receive from its medical col-
leges or the students of the sciences
and arts from the great universities.
W. S. Harwood in his book, entitled
“The NeAV World,” says that “In a
single decade the North Dakota agri-
cultural station added $100,000,000
to the wealth of that State alone,
largely by reason of experiment work
of the station in the development of
cereals.”
The farmers have not only learned
better methods of cultivating the
soil, but they have learned how to
increase values of farm products by
better methods of feeding and mar-
keting the same.
The total value of the farm crops
in the United States last year
amounted to $8,760,000 almost dou-
ble the value of the crop of 18 99. .
It would be but little short of van-
ity to attribute' the vast increase in
agricultural wealth in agricultural
wealth in so short a time to agricul-
tural education, as increased valua-
tion, due to the unrivaled prosperity
of the whole country of the last de-
cade, together with the increased
acreage, must be considered in this
estimate, but to the improved skill
and increased knolwedge of the farm-
er more than all else, largely the re-
sult of the work of our agricultural
and mechanical colleges and experi-
ment stations, is this marvelous
growth attributable.
Not only is this so, but the expan-
sion and elevation of rural life, so
marked at this time, is due in a large
measure to an enlightened agricul-
ture.
It has been the policy of our states-
men from the birth of this republic
to encourage and foster agriculture
in every legitimate way, and the ad-
vancement of this, the most necessary
pursuit of man, has confirmed their
wisdom.
All intelligent, right-thinking men
must conclude that proper intellect-
ual and moral training increases our
wants and esires. Then a wide dis-
semination of gnowledge among the
great mass of people—knowledge
magnifying the importance of rural
life, stimulating industry and fru-
gality, supplying the most wholesome
food for the mind while showing the
fay to material improvement, in-
casing the comforts of home, ele-
tiilg the farm A^vejthe drudgery
—great'
truths and beauties in nature, link-
ing the noblest sentiments of man
Avith the hope and confidence in a
profession which shall be no less re-
munerative than other honrable pur-
suits is of the first and highest im-
portance.
May we not expect a condition like
this under a liberal and wise system
of agricultural colleges, experiment
stations, demonstration farms, and
universal education AVhich, while ele-
vating the mind and expanding the
soul, shall fit and qualify the youth
of our country for the practical du-
ties of life and the highest types of
citizenship?
While that which has been said
above pertains more generally to
What all the states are doing, Texas
has had a share of it, but the other
states have done so much more than
Texas it would be well to publish
these facts and figures/ that it will
be an incentive to the legislature of
Texas to do for the A. & M. College
of Texas that which will advance us
to a position equal to that of Iowa,
Wisconsin, Illinois an dother states
where appropriations have been more
liberal and where there is some as-
sured income from year to year.
The A. & M. College of Texas has
no fixed income. Its land grant from
the federal government gives its only
endowment, and this is a small
amount. It depends for its life and
existence upon the biennial appro-
priations by the legislature, and so
lacking have these been in compari-
son Avith the progress of the College
that there are now more students in
tents on the College campus than
were in the institution four years
ago. Two dormitories are noAV be-
ing erected at the College and when
these are thrown open for occupancy
there Avill be yet students in tents.
The A. & M. College of Texas ad-
mits students from several hundred
affiliated high schools in the state.
Its student body has representatives
of every well populated county in the
state; these boys are from the homes
of the rich and the,poor. Some of
them are earning their Avay through
College, and all have a single pur-
pose in view—equipping themselves
for some fixed profession in life. The
College teaches agriculture, horti-
culture, veterinary science, animal
husbandry, electrical engineering,
civil engineering, textile engineer-
ing, chemical engineering and me-
chanical engineering. Its graduates
are occupying responsible position in
this state and in the nation. ' Tui-
tion is free.
The A. & M. College of Texas is
the largest institution of learning in
the world under complete military
discipline.
NAMES AND P0ST0FFICES
BELL COUNTY TEACHERS
f
Coimmon Districts
No. of Name of
School School "V
1 Amity
3 Buckhorn
4-1 German-English
4-2 Kelso
5 Cedar Knob
6 Cedar Creek
7 Cedar Grove
9-1 Cyclone
8-2 Cyclone
10 Center Lake
11 Cottonwood
15 Dyess Grove
16 Childers
17 Elm Springs
18 Seaton
19 Casey
20 Old Howard
22 Elm Grove
23 ' Hog Mountain
24 Hay Branch
26 Highland
27 Maxdale
28 Webb
29 Richland
30 Keys’ Valley
31 Knob Crelk
33 Live Oak Ridge
34 Summers’ Mill
35 Okay
36 Alligator'
37 Little Flock
38 , Little River
39 Little Elm
40 The Academy
41 - Little Nolan
42 Moffatt
44 Mitchell
45 Mud Springs
46 White Hall
■ 47 McGlaunn
48 Goodeville
49 North Elm
50 J Nolanville
52 Prairie Valley
53 Bland
54 Palo Alto
55* Post Oak
56 ( , Phoenix
57' Gindale
5S ; Meeks
5 9 Pecan
60 / Pleasant Valley
uJL r. Peppers Creek
■ jK - A.1 * - 17. .
63 ^TVillow Springs
65 Prairie Dell
66 Pendleton
Rqck Church
New Colony
Reeses' Creek
Sunshine
Cedar Valley
Bell Plains
Bellfalls
Science Hill
Luther Smith
Sulphur Springs
Sypert
Stampede
McDowell
Santa Fe
Tennessee Valley
Old Troy
Berea
Three Forks
Taylor’s Valley
Union Hill
Vilas
Union Grove
Volo
Lee
Sparks
Willow Grove
Name of
Teacher
Mr. E. B. Echols,
Mr. J. A. Humphries,
Mrs. J. A. Humphries,
Miss Eula Curlee,
Miss Effie Bowling,
Mr. A. E. Allen,
Mr. C. E. Paxton,
Miss Lizzie Tulloch,
Miss Ida Mitchell, .
Mr. O. A. Heath.
Mrs. O. A. Heath,
Miss Marie Frische,
Miss Beulah Wallraven,
Miss Lutie Wellborn,
Mr. Luther S. Barron,
Miss Mittie Mecom,
Mr. O. E. Kennedy,
Miss Alice Buster,
Miss Muda Griffith,
Mr. W. B. Hamner,
Miss Ella Lasiker
Mr. L. H. Odom,
Mr. A. H. Smith,
Miss Alice Rogers,
Mr. G. A. Logan,
Miss,Lizzie Willerson,
Mr. W. F. Grant,
Miss Eathel Cowan,
Miss Lucille McDonald,
Miss Annie Pruitt,
Miss Kate Wright,
Miss Mattie Punchard,
Mr. Ward C. Hine,
Miss Carrie Sanderford,
Miss Myrtle Brown,
Address of
Teacher
Belton, Texas
Moody, Texas
Moody, Texas
Bartlett, Texas
Bartlett, Texas
Salado, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Belton, Texas
Oenaville, Texas, R. 3
Oenaville, Texas, R. 3
Oenaville, Texas
Holland, Texas
Temple, Texas
Heidenheimer, Texas
Heidenheimer, Texas
Troy, Texas
Oenaville, Texas
Salado, Texas
Temple, Texas, R. 8
Temple, Texas, R. 8
Burlington, Texas
Temple, Texas, R. 1
Belton, Texas
Killeen, Texas
Belton, Texas, R. 7
Rogers, Texas
Maxdale, Texas
Troy, Texas, R. 1
Troy, Texas, R. 2
Belton, Texas
Rogers, Texas
Oakalla, Texas
Belton, Texas
Killeen, Texas, R. 2
Bel County
Democrat
T wice=a=week
Only 50c
a Year
Miss Florendia Wiederspahn,Bartlett, Texas
Miss Ethel Marshall,
Mr. J. W. McDaniel,
Miss Laura Beamer,
Miss Lucille SAvann,
Miss Beulah Vaden,
Mr. F. L. Burroughs,
Miss Mary Hickerson,
Mr. Will Brumbalow,
Mr. A. O. Robinson,
Miss Minnie Robinson,
Mr. A. H. Baird,
Mr. T. J. Lockhart,
Miss Grace Cox,
Mrs. Ora Manning,
Miss Frances Cejnar,
Miss Rosa Thornhill,
Miss Julia Juren,
Mr. C. W. Bolin,
Mrs. C. W. Bolin,
Mrs. Chas. Medlin,
Miss Cora Rosson,
Miss Lora Boyd,
Mrs. Ernest Wicker,
Miss Ann Couch,
Miss Edith Lewis,
Mr. T. W. Jacob,
Miss Lottie Johnson,
Miss Gertrude Creekmore
Miss Sallie Johnson,
Miss Minnie Backstrom,
Miss Ora L. Lott,
J^llen,
i'aX'ie Wallt.o;
Miss Eulalia Dillingham, KilleeffT Texas
Miss Marguerite Wendland, Killeen, -Texas
Temple, Texas, R. 8
Little River, .Texas
Little River, Texas
Little River, Texas
Temple, Texas
Temple, Texas, R. 7
Temple, Texas, R. 7
Killeen, Texas
Moffatt, Texas
Moffatt, Texas
Belton, Texas
Rogers, Texas
Rogers, Texas
Belton, Texas, R. 7
Temple, Texas
Bartlett, Texas
Oenaville, Texas
Nolanville, Texas
Nolanville, Texas
Nolanville, Texas
Holland, Texas
Bland, Texas
Killeen, Texas
Holland, Texas
Killeen, Texas
Heidenheimer, Texas
Heidenheimer, Texas
Oenaville, Texas
Holland, Texas
Temple, Texas
Temple, Te
The Democrat
And The
Semi-Weekly
Dallas News
Only
temple, Texas
j/mm,
1 o'1a q m Tr i 1 *
Mrs. I. S. Gill,
Miss Pauline Smith,
Miss Lena C. Jackson,
Mr. W. G. Paxton,
Miss Paxton,
Miss Ossie Wormelduff,
Miss Maggie Daugherty,
Miss Cora Lamb,
Mr. H. W. Grant,
Miss Gertrude Chartrand,
Mr. W. A. Herrington,
Miss Clara Nail,
Miss Sophia Punchard,
Miss Lena Atwood,
Miss Felicia Jones,
Mr. Harry Stevens,
Mrs. N. T. Beaumier,
Miss Myrtle McKinney,
Miss Alta Hornsby,
Miss Vera Bell,
Miss Bertha Abbott,
Mr. Dennie Rankin,
Mrs. Ella Collins,
Miss Ella Garner,
Miss Leta Carter,
Miss Nettie M. Henderson,
Miss Willie Ellis,
Mr. J. E. Mayo,
Miss Ethel Teverbaugh,
Miss Kate Boon,
Miss Emma Jones,
Miss Lillian Ferguson,
Miss Lois Oliver,
Miss Sarah Jackson,
Mrs. Florence Jordan,
Mr. J. D. Alsup,
Williamson Branch Miss Pearl Greathouse,
Youngsport
Thompson
Hackberry
Stillman Valley
Sparta
Lost Prairie
Mountain View
Wiltonville
Content
Althea
Reed’s Lake
Mr. J. J. P. Fouts,
Miss Willie B. CoAvan,
Mr. Carl Gidley,
Mr. A. B. Cargill,
Miss Fannie Oliver,
Mr! J. P. Jeffries,
Miss Virginia D. Frazier,
Mr. John V. Kocurek,
Mr. J. E. Lucas,
Miss Carrie Vickers,
Mr. Theo. Mahler,
Miss Birdie Mitchusson,
Miss Lera Couch,
Prairie Dell, Texas
Prairie Dell, Texas
Prairie Dell, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Belton, Texas
Rogers, Texas
Rogers, Texas
Maxdale, Texas
Killeen, Texas
Holland. Texas
Salado, Texas, R. 1
Holland, Texas R. 2
Oenaville, Texas
Holland, Texas
Moody, Texas
Belton, Texas
Holland, Texas
Moody, Texas
Belton, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Belton, Texas
Troy, Texas
Belton, Texas
Pendleton, Texas
Belton, Texas
Little River, Texas
Sparta, Texas
Holland, Texas
Belton, Texas
Holland, Texas
Heidenheimer, Texas
Holland, Texas
Moody, Texas
Temple, Texas
Youngsport, Texas
Youngsport, Texas
Oenaville, Texas
Holland, Texas
Youngsport, Texas
Sparta, Texas
Sparta, Texas
Dime Box, Texas
Belton, Texas
Temple, Texas
Oenaville, Texas R. 2
Bartlett, Texas, R. 2
Burgess Texas
WM
And The
Thrice-a-week
NewYork World
Only
And
Mrs. Capt. W. L. Wilson wants
to sell all her flowers this
week. 53-2t.
GOOD LIVE SCHOOL
AT 0LB HOWARD
Mr. A. H. Smith presides over
the destiny of Old Howard school
this year. Mr. Smith is one of
the young men whom we believe
may be classed among the live
wires of the profession. This is
his second year of teaching and
his first year at Old Howard.
He taught last year at Richland.
He was born and reared in this
county and was a student of the
Killeen High School. He attend-
ed the summer normal in Belton
last summer. ( His school is
graded to the seventh grade and
an effort is being made for thecomolete arrangements of the
study. The community has
made .improvements on the build-
ing to the extent of about $75.00
and contemplates doing more a
little later on. The interior of
the bouse is in neat condition and
it is seated with good desks. The
term this year will be six months.
Pleurisy pains are located just
below the short ribs. Lumbag'O
affects the same region out toward
the back. Ballard’s Snow Liniment
is the remedy in either case. If
rubbed in thoroughly it eases pain,
relaxes the muscles and the patient
can move about freely and comfort-
ably. Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 per
bottle. Sold by Hunter & Freeman.
HOGS FOR SALE—Two young
Sows. Arthur Welhausen,
Belton, Texas.
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