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Show Qty Boys Learn to Be Farmers At N. Y. Children's Aid School Graduates Find Work In the Eastern States The professional viewers - with-alarm with-alarm to the contrary, there will never be a shortage of farmers in the United States even though the armed services and war industries have drawn many thousands from the soil temporarily. One of the reasons why the supply sup-ply of farming personnel will always be adequate is the farm school of the Children's Aid society at New Hamburg, N. Y. This is the only free farming school in America where a boy may enter of his own free will, at any time of the year, and be assured of a well-paying job at the end of his course. Hun- V. - - i i K ' - f, M iA V " ' f " " 1 About 40 students are being trained in agricultural work at present. dreds of graduates of this school are now employed on farms, not only in New York state but in neighboring states as well. At the C.A.S. farm school the students stu-dents learn all the chores that go to make up the business of farming. They include plowing, sowing, reaping, reap-ing, operation of all kinds of farm machinery as well as the care of livestock. After graduation the young farmer is placed in a job where he is accepted as one of the farmer's family. Within a short time many graduates take the first steps towards to-wards owning their own farms. This is the goal of most of the boys who take the course. With the modern layout in the school's poultry house, collecting eggs is a cinch. -'"" " 'is - - s$t 1 A rubber udder, filled with water, is used to teach city boys the proper way to get the milk down. The school has plenty of real cows, but the boys must prove their proficiency on the artificial udder before they are allowed to try their bands in the dairy barns. |
