Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — School Makes A Tour [ARTICLE]

School Makes A Tour

Worth McCarthy, principal of the Marion Consolidated school, took his pupils in agriculture out for a half-Hftv field trip last week to make practical observation in connection with their text book work. Inspection of corn fields brought out that the average farmers of the district with seventy acres of corn is losing twenty-seven acres as a result of -poor stand. After noting the effect of lime on sour soils, the class had a lesson in seed corn picking, visited an orchard and an alfalfa field arid snent some time judging the heifers which are to be distributed to members of the Shorthorn club. Mr. McCarthy’s idea is worthy, while in practically every rural school in the county agriculture'in the schools can often best be taught by practical object less’ons.