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Show INDIAN SCHOOL IXSTITUTES. Q. About how many bllshels grow on one tree (average) ?-A. From two to four bushels, according to the age of the tree. 0. \Vhat is usuallv the cost of one bushel?--4. About 50 cents for the Italian prunes. New words and spelling: Scion. - Stock. Cleft. Grafting. Orchard. Tools. Fruit. Trees. Wax. Arithmetic.-A tree bears one and a half husheis of fruit. At 50 cents a bushel, how much does the tree bring? Oue'bushei ~ e i g h sGO pounds. what is the weight of the above prunes? In drying, two-thirds of the weight is lost. \\'hat part remains? How many pounds remain? At 4 cents a pound what are they worth? Larzysage-Sentence icorl6.-What is grafting? What are the pieces that are inserted in the stock called? How old must the wood of the scion be? How many buds must I t hare? How is the lower end shaped? C o ~ ~ ~ p o ~ i t i ~ L a nsgto~rym.-Ig e have some land. I want to plant an orchard. I want Italian prunes because they are lnrge and sell well. I am going to take good care of the trees. I am going to save the money I earn. I am going to help my people at home so that they can malre thelr land pay, and when it is cleared to raise fruit. (To the teacher :) Sometimes we hear teachers say thnt the class room is not the place to teach the industries. They say the class room is tbe place to teach reading, arithmetic, and other essentials. The prevailing idea anlong these teachers seenls to be that the lnoruent a class-room teacher begins to tall< about a blacksmith shop, a farm, or an orchard, at that moment all literary instruction ceases in the elilRs room, nnd the children are not learning to qlell. read. and write. This morning we find that the pupils have learned a long list of new words. They have written 0l'igin~I sentences, also a language stow. which taught them CQm-position. They hare also solred a nunlher of prnetical problems on the board, and each one has written and solred an original problem. They hnve read their worlr to the class and have had the teacher correct their work for their writing lesson. So we see that ail the essentials hnve been taught. Their work in the prune orchard has beeu the meilns of teaching spelling, language, etc. Instead of going to Asia and Afrien for a rhinoceros and a hippopotamus and having the children write about these animals I hnve remained at home. In other tvords, I hare patronized home industry. Surely that can't be an unpardonable sin. Roolcer T. IVashington, in nu address before a teachers' association, said that one time he visited a school where mechanical .drawing was taught. He said this problem was on the board: Draw, design, and create n plan for a dairy. Tl'e may get our education thru the classics as we did in the olden times, tllru the farm, the carpenter shop, tlle orchard, or. as the mechanical drawing class," thru the dairy. Honr much better it is to teach children along the lines of their work then to have them memorize something that happened a thousand gears ago. Children often get o wrong idea of an education. The teachers must teach them that the inlportont question which will be asked them when they seek em-ployment is not "HOK much do you know?" but " What can you do? I t 1s the Indian boys and girls thnt "can do" that are going to make self-supporting citizens. It is not so much from what Indian school or grade are you. but rather what has the school or pxde done for you to malre you n useful boy. What has it done to Ineke you of sonle use to yourself, to your parents, and to your reservation? Of course, you can't all teach about the prune orchard Some mny be in schools where there is no fruit. Study your environment. Maybe you hare wheat fields. Then study wheat. Why can't wheat be ~ O T T I I year after year in the same place? The diseases of nhent. Why is Mr. A's wheat field such n fine looking field? Why has Mr. B's field, just across the tence, such a poor crop? There is a reaaou for it, and the teacher must study It. Your school may not have fruit or wheat. Look around. May be you hare sheep. Then, instead of studsviug crops, study slieep. Why is this one particular kind of sheep suited to this localits? Do all the boys live in this locality? If not, what kind is best suited to their homes? |