Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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MEET OUR FARM MANAGER! Raymond T. Kuhrt comes from Chautauqua County, New York, the home of grapes, small fruits, milk, cheese, and poultry. His school days were spent at a district school, after which he at tended Forestville Free Academy and High School, from which he graduated as President of the Class of 1912. From High School he entered the Training Class and taught one year in a country school. During this time Mr. Kuhrt had the opportunity of organizing and instilling community spirit into the district. Great sorrow was felt when he left to enter Cortland Normal. Just a word may be said of his home life. The Kuhrt farms at present, though fruit predominates, boast of a herd of fifteen Line-bred Holstein cattle and a herd of about forty pure-bred Duroc Jersey swine. His home borders a brook and as a small boy he might have been seen any day with a pole and line fishing in summer or with a string of traps trapping in winter, studying Nature's ways at first hand. His early experience came in dealing in pigeons, chickens and rabbits. This gave him the incentive to go deeper into the poultry field and he specialized at Cortland Normal in this phase of Animal Husbandry. After graduating from Normal, Mr. Kuhrt taught High School Agriculture at Ellington, Sherman and Forestville. While there he maintained a pen of White Leghorns as a side issue. Two years ago Mr. Kuhrt gave up teaching to devote more time to his poultry business. He has had a splendid selection of Barron strain White Leghorns at his home for several years, still maintans a flock of five hundred and is directing the management. He has incubating equipment with a capacity of three thousand eggs and has orders booked for five hatches for this season. Mr. Kuhrt comes to the School of Horticulture with practical experience in farm managing, care of animals, growing of general farm crops, and as a poultry specialist. The most hearty welcome to our midst is extended to Mr. Kuhrt. R C. D. 6

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WISE-ACRES Vol.'VII February, 1923 • No. 1 Published Quarterly by the Students of the School of Horticulture for Women, Ambler, Pa.—Elizabeth Leighton Lee, Director Entered at Ambler P. O. as Second-Class Matter Under Act of March 3,1879. STAFF Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth C. Hall Asst. Editor, Margaret England Adv. Mgr., Florence Miller Asst. Adv. Mgr., M. Eloise Torrens Business Manager, Sarah B. Fogg One Dollar a Year Single Copy, Twenty-five Cents THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH, YIELDING PLACE TO NEW” Another class has stepped forth from the School of Horticulture full of the spirit of achievement in its chosen work. Their chance for service has come. Let them keep that same enthusiasm in their work that they have displayed here at school and may the future have great things in store for them! Another class has entered, keen with the anticipation of what the next two years will reveal to them. WISE-ACRES extends a warm welcome to these new students. We, too, are beginning a new year, with a new staff, and we, also, are full of anticipation and enthusiasm. We shall devote a section of each issue to the Alumnae and we ask for their co-operation in submitting any articles or bits of news which would be of interest to them or their former classmates. Recent happenings at the school will be duly recorded and a bit of a humorous page may creep in if we are not too sober. We hope to increase the number of exchanges and make WISE-ACRES an active organ of the School of Iioriticulture. Finally, we shall aim to continue that standard of our predecessors in presenting articles on those subjects of interest, help, and enjoyment to all. 5

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IN APPRECIATION For somewhat over two years it has been our good fortune to have Miss Edna C. Thomas as an instructor in subjects of poultry, farm animals and farm crops. Her knowledge was both scientific and practical, her method of imparting it exceedingly interesting, and a touch of humor added spontaneity to her words. Courses in both American Colleges and European Schools gave her excellent scientific training, and her own place of thirty acres, “Cheeryneuk Farm, in Eliot, Maine, had given her ample experience for ten years. Miss Louise Metzger, her able assistant, threw her whole en-ergy into her work. Her ideals of accomplishment were high, and she was a happy exponent of the dignity and joy of manual labor. We understand that Miss Thomas and Miss Metzger expect to unite their fortunes in a farming or poultry project. We wish them all good luck and hope that the name of “Cheeryneuk Farm” may follow them to their new home and be a good omen for the future. E. L. L. COMMENCEMENT The mid-winter commencement of the School of Horticulture was held Friday afternoon, December fifteenth. There were over a hundred people present to enjoy the address given by Dr. Maurice Francis Egan, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Denmark. In speaking of agriculture and horticulture as taught in the Danish Schools, Dr. Egan stressed our need for a return to simplicity and the right use of our leisure hours. He said: “The real aristocracy of any country is made up of people who are in love with simplicity. Who, then, are the real makers of our nation ? If you think they are the men you send to Congress, you are mistaken. The real builders of the prosperity of our country are those who, like the graduates and students of this school, are learning to revere the elements of life, to learn the value of well-ordered leisure and the worth of simplicity. A garden, for instance, even the little garden of the city, is an excuse for leisure, and for leisurely thought. N’obody can be greatly bored or really unintelligent who cultivates a garden. The advantages of the simple life are not always seen in our country because we devote ourselves too much to instruction and too little to education. “Just as culture does not depend upon wealth, so intelligence, which includes the quality of seeing life clearly, is not the result of instruction, but of judicious education. Our young folks go abroad to finish an education that was never even begun over here. The 7