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I HOW TO BUILD UP A MARKET FOR FARM PRODUCE—Page 16.
VoL XXVII. No. 48._SATURDAY, NOVEMBEt^Sft, 1912. Weekly: $1 a Year.
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Give the Farm Boys and Girls a Fair Chance in Life.
1. Rhode Island—190.2 daysj /
2. Connecticut—181.2 davs. - / /T'HE GREATEST question outside the
3. Mar viand—179.8 davs.-/ 1 realm of morals, that can be asked of
4 New York_178 6 davs--- / any pe°ple today* 18 th,8: Are yOUr
' —;-:-y3‘ i / boys and girls being fitted for the fierce, keen
5' —-fo-Diaf—1780 day3, I competition of trained minds, fiercer and keener
Ngjgjgraey—176-7 days. / fhan the world has ever before known, that is to
7- Wisconsin—173.0 days. / mark the industrial battle of the next fifty years?
8- / it is a question, too, to which the farmers of the
9. Iow&—168,6 days. / South cannot give a very confident answer. We
10. Washington—164.0 days. ^ . « - / have made great progress educationally in recent
11. South Dakota—163,8.days. / years, but there still remains much to be done—not
§ 12. Michigan—161.6 days. / only much that should be done, but much that must j
13. Massachusetts—160.7 days. / be (lone- w e simply cannot attorn to let the children
14 Kansas—160.0 days. / of the South> especially the children on Southern farm*
* 77 1 ' 1 ' .. ." "./ grow up with less educational opportunities than the
V a 1 1 I..- / children of other States and sections have.
lt,P —f aware^—157.0 days.. ■ . — / Yet we are doing it. Every State in our territory, as
17‘ Ohio—155.0 days. / the accompanying diagram shows, has a school term of
18. .Illinois—154.8 days. / less than average length. Here is the list: Mississippi, 131
19. New Hampshire—149.7 days. / days; Louisiana, 124.1 days; Tennessee, 122 days; Texa*
ft). Pennsylvania—149.4days. / 119.2 days; Alabama, 108.5 days; Arkansas, 98 days. j
21. Vermont—147.0 days. / Now, a six-months school term—120 days—should be the
22. North Dakota—143.2 days. / minimum, the very least offered any child.
23. Maine—142.5 days. / Remember, too, that these figures show the average school 1
24. Georgia—141 5 days. / term> *n every State there are towns and cities with eight- and
25 Montana 133 5 da s / ninemontks school terms, This means that there are many
2f TT. ^ ‘ .- / country children getting much less than the State average.
' ■—,1SS°Ur aFs~ .. ■ J It takes money to run schools, and many farmers feel that they |
’— yoming—136.0 days. , / already have all the taxes they can pay; but this is one place where j !
28p Minnesota—132.5 days. / there must be no attempt at retrenchment. We can save money, if j i
29. Nevada—131.8 days. / we will, by keeping our school terms short and giving our children
30. Mississippi—131.0 days. / inefficient training; but when we do it, we are limiting their earning
31. Virginij^-msdays^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ J power for their whole lives—are dooming them to do the hard work
32. Indiana—130.3 days. J of the world and let better-trained men and women get the profits of
33. Okjahoma^^slsllays^"" _/ fke*r labors.
34. Virginia 127.5 daya. / This we cannot afford to do. It is a big task before us, but not too
35. Louisiana—124 1 davs * / big if we make UP our “Inds to it. Let inheritance and income taxes be
36 ‘Colorado—123 «Hava " / levied until the ricl1 Pay as larSe a share of taxes as they do in England;
37 " ' 7 ’ i / and then make whatever added increase in the general tax levy is needed to s
’ ■^.nnesscc~ 122-0 days-. —i / provide a full six-months school term for every country child. We must j
‘ —^pxas—119.2 days. / have it, for without it our boys and girls will not have a fair chance in life.
39- Oregon—118,7 Hava._/ __
*>• Idaho—112.5 days.
41- Kentucky—110,6 days.
42- Alabama^-108.5 days.
43- Arizona—105.0 days.
44- Florida—100,1 days.
461 Arkansas—98.0 davs.
48- New Mexico—90.1 davs.
Length of School Term in the /
Various States. /
/ FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. I
liUli A V/il LUUUi'jMiy — .ill
tural School Doing Good Work. . . 21
COTTON MARKETING PROBLEMS
—How Co-operative Ginning and
Selling Would Help . 8
COWS AND CO-OPERATION IN
DENMARK — How They Have
Made the Farmers Rich. 12
EASY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING—A
Symposium . 10
FIGHT THE SAN JOSE SCALE—
Now is the Time to Begin. 17
ajax* x ■ rjiv \ aiiUJlU.l \ rxl\
HEED—Don’t Try to Have Them. . S
THAT PURE-BRED PIG—What to
Do With Him When You Get Him 14
rHE FARM FENCES—How to Build
and Keep Them in Order. 7
♦THE “LACK OF LIME" SUPERSTI
TION—Southern Feeds Are Not
Deficient in Lime. 3
WHERE CREAMERIES ARE NOT
NEEDED—In No Locality Where
400 Cows Are Not Available. 14