Plainview Rover High School - Panther Yearbook (Plainview, AR)

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BETTER FARMING CLUB Clo- 19 Agriculture ln Plainview Hugh School It IS the growxng belxef that the essential or practical slde of education has been neglected ln our educatlonal system Now however we are adoptmg the philosophy which states that those thmgs should be taught m schools which the majority of the students can use after they leave school When we remember as to what they wnll need most so this school has added to nts curnculum a cours m agrxculture Thus was made posslble by the school board and the busmess men of th town A man qualxfled to teach thus work was hired and paxd by the year m order that the students of this school should have a greater chance ln the battle of life The course consxsts of the study of annmal and crop productnon Emphasns IS placed on the practical so that much of the tlme is spent nn spraymg prunmg cullmg poultry etc It IS the plan of the management to conduct the work m agrlculture as near m accordance wxth the government requ rements for Smith Hughes work as posslble The state supervnsor has added our school to has lust of Smlth Hughes schools so that we get the benefit of everythnng he has to offer The future for agnculture IS brnght because nt as a new fneld and a practucal course which people wxll always have need for H B 16 7 ..8.:...-P' 1 - A HL - 1 nw N I . . , Q I, 1' II E . . . , , . . . . ,, . A . - - yn that most of our high school students never go farther, it should give us concern h . , . . . t . . . Q ' ' ' If ' YY . . . . . . , . , , . - . .3 1 x , . 3