Show WILL TEACH cc ACH AGRICULTURE IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS u THEY i THEY SCREECH n j i J i WORKING M SCHOOL IL L AT r I Iw w 1 t I I I IJ J b i i ic c wi Jr b I 1 I Y D 4 f I k 7 i Oy fly D O E POWELL of the lbs University of Illinois f OW thai iball all th tIM country boy boS Mid and HOW H tx H kept on Oft th farm la lapile I 11 pile of tI th portentous anxiety x tell lety with which mm II of weight ye It and ad aIM wisdom wom art a k Otlo tl th UI t answer anar la Is th thi m In fl th the teeming Hf of 01 o the finn fInland and It will Im be to drive tl th thui away r Charles it f tb be agricultural of o the University of or H Hn n Mis 1011 l think he ke ae a s tin th application In I Ione one of or his article he has haa hII Mid AId 14 Since the attitude of tho country girl or boy toward tho farm fann life m lit l II largely tary detor mined before hi high bleh school hool day dayn the Us of St reaching hIm early e rI y und and andIn In tn Ils beat bt way wy II li apparent Teaching In Ii 8 tile moat t difficult nf of all sit lit Ih the theart art but bt If It the of modern Ml HI id achievement can con be be fare f re the pupil while white he Ira mill haa hu th the the aDd ami nd the spirit of Inquiry of youth the future futuro of our cur agriculture l II assured aurEd Note that but The future of our I Ur Is Ii aured No uncertain statement that rather the word of ofu ufa ofa a u man mon who bas baa Hen een en hi vision clearly clearl and ha ba hai grasped gra Ita lis significance sU ur ly Y In other words worda the Ih believe bell that If It the Iho country girl can be brought to 10 ne ace ee the Iho fun there I la In elen scientifically coaxing an old hen hento hento hento to lay two Iwo eggs egge eln where lb ah he ha hw been Isn In Inthe inthe the Iho habit of depositing one ona that thai girl will not nol have brain room to 10 harbor a desire to thump the tho keys ke of a typo type typewriter writer If It the courry boy can ean bo be brought to 10 exercise his hlo martial spirit upon upen a bellicose army anny of ot Insect ma nm marauders marauder he h will so ro 0 Interested In Inthe Inthe the Rent lIght that thai he ho will graduate from college colleg an Insect expert Instead of a football authority Illinois Protestors Professors Id IdAs idea I I As AI a of this UsIa belief Pro Iro Professor fessor fenor Charles Is planning a systematic attack upon agricultural courses They Thy no longer are to bo be tho Iho property properly of ot th the colleges They are to 10 be bo given to 10 the tho elementary as well ell The most moat scientific principle of agriculture are areto areto to 10 be adapted to the younger children These principles aro are to be worked out before their eyes and with their own hands hand whenever possible Plant and animal life In Its lis varying phases pha s Is Ia to tobe tobo tobe be bo part port of ot the Ih school choal curriculum This Thu means mean the tho addition of gardens gardena and even zoos zooa to 10 the Iho school equipment f fYi y Yi f ta Ii r i Sf I J t J y tt THE SCHOOL I I neither one as na expensive nor as aa dint dim difficult cult as ao might seem at first thought With both buth of them Charles Charlee ha Isa experimented d and the Iho results have hae ben moat I The Th work was 1 dono while he was Wal head of the solon tide department of the Northern tIll Illi Illinois nois nol State tate Normal school chool located at atIt Dekalb I It 11 was found that boys bOYI will raise ralso corn Cern In the Iho fields nelds with as aa much zest as they will reuse raise the Iho devil on the tho city streets that girls find more moro pleasure In presenting friends at al Christmas with flowers flower grown by their own care than they ever find In giving meaning meaningless doodad to 10 collect collet dust duet on rs And scientific principles are taught while the corn com and the roses are ar grown crown that prove provo every bit as RN absorbing at a athe lie cc lieth the th principles principle of poker toker taught laught In hay haymow mOWN mow or of elaborate taught In hot hol bedrooms The of In th the work with the chil children children children dren proved to 10 Charles Charlos what he ho long had respected humans have a strong Instinct for nature which needs need only the chance to develop Battle Battlo With Snout Beetles A few years year ago the farmers In f p certain section Mellon of Illinois were annoyed I by Insect pests peats that destroying the tho young corn plants They were snout beetle so 10 large that one ono exas oa exasperated exasperated farmer christened them ole ele elephant pliant bugs They Thy throve on poisonous sprays they were unmolested by the Iho birds A flock of chickens was turned Into one on field OId and the tho bugs clamped their stout cLout loge legs about aboul the chickens bills bill so 10 tightly that they could not nOI so 10 much as squawk quawk an as they flew new from the Iho fray To Dr Or Forbes head of the state stalo laboratory of natural history his lory located at the university an appeal was wa dis patched ita Ho sent ha latant to the tho scene acene of distress who after otter months month of Investigation and experiment found that Ihal the Insects bred chiefly on rushes which were wre especially abundant on the untilled lands bind Joining the tho cornfields It wan wac found oleo also that while ordinary means of extermination did not nol affect them careful and thorough cultivation would free the fields nelds from the tho p peat peete st It was we a twentieth century battle with a belligerent end ami nd determined foe and It called for all the of mind of spirit and scientific I knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge that could be b brought to bear beer This Idea Ida t f Introducing the Ih study of agriculture Into the th elementary schools Is ii I tho the natural development from front the older nature study tudy One On cannot but notion In the nature study productions of Mr AIr Charles the emphasis that Is Ii 1 placed upon the Iho practical Do not tell ten the child facts merely prove them to him Do not be b content to teach leach prin principles only make the child exemplify these principle by hi his hilt own work A few tew pictures and description of the tho work done at will make mak for forthe forthe forthe the be befit beet t understanding of what hal Pro Fro teaser CharI has accomplished One th boys hota at al work In the tho gardens gardena devoted to vegetables and Id crop crone were wro kept of all difficulties and how they were ware ro turned Into tri UI triumphs triumphs by tho the tine UIO of fertilizers rota rotation rotation tion finn of crop crone etc School Flower Flowe Gardens The school hool flower gardens garden demon deroon demonstrated that thai the Iho unusual and anil ano the tho ox ex In plants are by no means mean necessary If one covets covet beauty about aboul him The near at al hand band often will yield the host best results Transplanted wild wildflowers lowers flowers prow grew to 10 rare beauty when cod coddled dIed In captivity into doing their very beat best as ns the tho spray of bluebells or as ac It Is known Jacobs Jacob ladder proves prove The children were taught the economical value of our birds especial especially ly tho the commoner varieties Our pit lIlI n 0 live five young screech owls owl about three weeks old which will willbe willbe III be bo ready to fly ny In a few days da The Tho sign upon which they oro aro perched originally read Nn No Shouting Shooting on Grounds but a mischievous wag al of ot n a aled lad led noticing the little habit of perching upon It wont went aside s from hi his hilt studies In nature long enough to dispense with the S Several young youn screech owls owl were kept In the HIe Dekalb zoo for the pue e of studying their feeding fading habits Observations as na arru rte rate as al a possible po were wro made also o upon the tho free freo bird bIrds It 1 was as found that the screech owl Is a very useful citizen n real economic asset In fact tact as a he ho lives largely IA ely upon caterpillars moths beetles and mice A purl part of the tho work in the tho study of birds done dono by the tho training school chil children dren dron was the tho taking inking of a bird bin census of the tho school campus This comprised seventy leventy acres acrea and counting the nests nest noting the Ih varieties etc eto proved a avery avery aVery very valuable form fonn of field l study One On of the tho Interesting things found in a n afield afield field neld not far from the campus was Will a adow meadow dow larks net nest with a cowbirds egg In It It ft may be bo new to some omo to I know that the Iho cowbIrd which Is the i smallest of our blackbirds builds no non n neat and ha baa hns no fixed habitation Her lIer I eggs she eho lays by stealth In the nests ne neof of other birds to which she ahe delegates I the tho unwished for task tuk of bringing up her offspring The cowbird gets Bets It its I name from Its Us habit of staying around rattle cattle pastures Often Orten a row of them may be seen een perched upon an old cows eow spines spine she Ih apparently glad to get her back scratched with so 10 little personal persona effort The Tho Schoolroom Zoo ZooA A word about aboul the zuo x O which Pro Professor ro fessor Charles established at al Dekalb I Its purpose was wa to develop dove lop an under understanding understanding standing of animals animal a sympathy for them and a realization realisation of nf their value valno economically In the scheme of things There were pet pel dogs and several severi pet cats eal which did not regard themselves as connected with the coo soo at all but bul as aa part o of the school chooL The Th animals now are being transferred to 10 the stats state uni university university varsity where they are received en enthusiastically enthusiastically by venous various men of ot lOCI science science ence enco The wolf Katrina has lias lilt been an Inmate of the tho zoo 00 for tor nine years yean and la Is laas Isas as playful as aa a kitten lUstus the coon perched on Professor Charles Chari shoulder houlder also alao Is an old and privileged J resident t of the tho zoo Buddhism Passing Palling Away The flight of the tho dalal lama lams from Lassa on the tho approach of ot the Ibe Chinese Chin army which has baa reasserted the sovereignty of China the spiritual Influence sod and authority of on one of th the world great pontiffs pontiff revered by of human humen beings being The Tho dalal lama at Lama Laces selected by n a 1 strange mixture of Intrigue and superstition Is iii to 10 the Buddhists of ot northeastern Alia iia the Ih representative of I Buddha on nn earth the Incarnation of the Iho divine the tho Infallible and inspired ruler of the spiritual forces force of the Ih ll uni universe universe I verse known to man men From room the I th utter uttermost mot most froen boundarIes of Siberia from the rice fields of China and Japan Japen 1 and from the tho tropical Islands Island of south southeastern southeastern eastern ea tern Asia men save ve for a lifetime to go KO on the arduous pilgrimage to 10 LaBsa Lassa iB f I S v I Inviolable In that city elty encircled 1 by frozen and lofty wastes waste he h ruled Iono I hut But his day 1 I is over oer rind then Ihen Chinese Chin troop have han driven I him forth He Ue tied fled four years year sass ago to Now he Heed 11 lie to India I 1 Buddhism Itself 1 Is naming In China Its It temples temple are failing falling to 10 ruin rula and It Its yellow clad ts grow fewer fever In InI I Korea Kor It its lIa followers are turning to j Christianity In Japan Japen It 1 a ritual and sen service lee men accept and sup aup support port rort because the tho women still till believe bellve In It II anti and go to temple In which by a mutual division of labor the men pay the t be bills and the I women pray Early divided from the Tibetan cult the of Ceylon Cion and Slam Ism I is unaffected but bul the tile which spreads preado over Siberia Chine China Japan and a vast It Island world to the south reveres the dalal lama III Ills going will change no local rite rile or worship but It Is Ie the th ll beginning of the fall and passing Ing of a R faith which for fM 2600 1600 veers vear has hall profoundly profound I Influenced i i the Ih 11 II e Os morals moral acts aels and religious thoughts thought of hundreds of millions i Advertising In China Consul Henry D Baker Hakr offer offet the fol foi following i ilow lowing low In trade track suggestions I 1 waa was im I pressed with th the possibilities of ot pie I tortal lortal advertising a aa a mean means of Im nm I I meting matIng American trade trad In China Chum The Phe Chin Chinese Chine appear to 10 have a fondness amounting almost to a veneration for pictures picture and foreign art e ex excites excites cites ell their attention bUM because of ot It its lis dif dlf difference difference ference ferenee to 10 what whal they the are accustomed to 10 The rho Th people nave have an especial faa fas fascination for calendars calendar and they thy never nver throw away A H well we Illustrated one on but bul always alway keep kp It 1 In a prominent place In supplying advertising calendars calendar for 1 I m Olt same arne at Idl tat last 4 I t ople I as i tj I which 1 I I a E caa mistake In haI II t r do dog nil In Its It adver sins t t tn rt p In China are m III ii I ft street n 0 nl I 1 q family lt I a I I I Pictorial ad Ig g a mk in s n It 1 ItI tas I American r I t their trademarks trad and Tf e a aI lit I trademark is ii I n flO tr rill I that thai particular line win i iless t J le less Is It II bears bear rs that thai tra tr trot nark ark I Railroaders Wages In Doh i United Bute Statu Consul con J I p i B n lain tain of oC Prague n u II Ii f formation retarding Hi I IJ I t w et certain railway mi pi ply i i Ih v T I In III n H H m n a r 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