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POSSIBLE DISADVANTAGES OF THE HIGH SCHOOL LAW. The St.ate. As universally granted by your recent correspondents as to the compulsory educational law now im pending. the success of our education a! efforts is of the higohest importance. It is, therefore, vitally important that no mistake just now should be made. All readily admit that high schools are very desirable, but too few may possibly consider what disadvantages may result from tdo great an ambi tion and eagerness to est'ablish them, and thereby secure a portion of that fund thrown out into the present free school system by the state like a veri table apple of discord. Let us brief ly enumerate some of these disadvan tages: First. These high schools impose additional taxation upon a people al ready too heavily taxed, in that spe cial levies are to be made, both to erect special buildings and to pay higher salaries, all without materially improving the possible advantages of the common free shool system. Second. They disrupt and depress the present free school system, over crowding some schools, and depleting others. Third. They crowd people into towns to the injury of country com munities, thereby depreciating the value of real estate and educating our people to loaf around towns in idle ness, trying to live by their "wits," which is an incalutulable menace to honesty, prosperity and, we may add, white supremacy. Fourth. Neither colleges nor com mon free schols, but mongrels; these high schools interfere with both, teaching our people on the one hand to be satisfied with brief superficial training, and on the other hand low ering the efficiency and grading of the common schools, no ambitious teacher caring to teach a merely primary school. Fifth. They render inadvisable the enactment of a compulsory eduea tional law, now impending. the state having no right to force the people to patronize schools beyond walking dis tance, especially after having des troyed the schools at their doors. I Other disadvantages could be men- < tioned, but let these suffice for a warning ''to make heste slowly." The educational effort of the state should be: First. To ereet a good, efficient school in every community, where it 'a will be easily accessible to all. I Second. To make these school meet f all the needs as to primary and sub- 1 collegiate training, which can be done. i Third. To adopt a compulsory edu- i eational law. i Fourth. And to leave collegiate training to her many state and pri- t vate colleges already in existence, I thus developing her present resources < without oppressing present institu- 1 tions, a'nd without inflicting upon our< people needless change~s and unending .I taxation. We have written briefly, bul hope s all will consider the subject well be fore voting unnecessary changes. STUDIBS or ELOOT LIFB. 1 Bureau of Plant Industry Carryingi On a aVluable Work. The experts of the bureau of plantj i industry of the agricultural depart ment are getting at the roots of the i matter. This is literally true, for the i root experiments with plants are the outcome of a st.udy of the problems'; involved in wide and shallow planting, c as opposed to close, ordinary plantingjl In the former methods, a great roott development would enable the farmer t to do well with very little rain; in the latter, his reliance is entirely on raln.1 Experimenters have hitherto been 'handicapped by the abseree of a de vice properly to study root growth,. but this difficulty has been overcome by A M. Ten Eyck, a member of tle ; Dakota station. Mr. Ten Eyck adg a t trench two feet 'wide about a block of earth in which were growing some plants, the roots of which he desired. to study. When the block stood out quite clearly alone he made a light wooden frame to fit around it and coy ered this with common wvire poultry] netting. This held the earth in place and enabled him to pierce it through with small wire rods, which were then fastened at both ends to the netting. When enough of these thin wire rods had been run through, to hold up the roots in case the earth was washed away. he covered the top of the romia with '>thin plasteri of ParisI paste, which sAn dried holding the plants lie desired to examine firmly about the base. The subsequent stages of this pro ess, which has been adopted by the bureau experts, involve the washing of th a earth from about the roots with ( soft., warm water, leaving them whiol ly exposed and sasper.ded upon the) V1*es 'Wijeh had been f',.reed iin'rh11 '11V i . It ilC become ca;x 1!(- to ift tihe age, with its plaster of Par s roof, holding the desired plants, to ;uch a place as desired for study. 'are is taken to dig the surrounding rench deep enough in the beginning oN avod the 1)osibiity of the roots )ein still connected with the each AC:!ow. The root experimenters have met onsiderable difficulties. For one hing the fine thread-like portions of he roots are destroyed at their extre nities by the warm water washing. [he threads; ho,wever. at the points Ahere they ended, have 1#-en analyz d. and it has been found that even t this early stage of the progress of he nourishment upward, the great hemical work, the taking from the oil of lime, sodium. nitrogen and the ike had been completed by the tiny lamert. Somewhere. a little furth r on in the soil &hich had been wash d away, the work had been going on. It is the understanding of this process hich is now desired, and which is till apparently as far off as ever. Nevertheless, so'me valuable results iave already been attained. Natural y, the investigations so far have con erned the plants most valuable to nan-wheat and corn, potatoes, beans ind the like. "Roots" observed one of the bu -eau's investigators, "seem to possess tetual sentience in regard to their earch for water. One of the inter sting and valuable results of this in estigation is that now science can de ermine which of the plants are deep eeding, and hence which are most uitable to dry, insufficiently watered ;oils. For instance, a species of wheat hich had the power to dig ddwn -six eet in its search for food and mois ure, woitid be better adapted to the ry regions of the west than one that ould dig but four. There are certain ;pecies of wheat which do splendidly n naturally soft, sandy soils, but vhose roots are too -weak to dig hrough heavy soils. This cannot be etermined by simply pulling up a t-alk. It requires such an investiga ion as this which the government as inaugurated. "Anoth.er thing which has been )roven by the investigation of root evelopment is why land laid down to Tass is made better. It has long been nown that when the wild prairie is irst broken the soil is mellow, moist ind rich, producing abundant ea-ops. tfter a few years of continuous culti ation the physical condition of the oil changes. She soil grainis become iber, which is bad; the soil becomes aore compact and heavier to handle; t dries out quicker than it used to; t balks worse and often turns over n hard clods when ploughed. This ompact texture makes it difficult for he young roots of plants to develop iroprly. It also 'eauses an insuffi ient supply of air in the soil and aakes it- sticky when wet, dusty when try, so that ~when 'loosened by the lough it is easily blown away. This s because it lacks roots of the right ort-stout, hardy, deep reaching -oots. "A little table of soil conditions is ieing prepared for regions - in which hese root invest.igations will prove >f especial value-which will prove nteresting and suggestive, seeing that t may be .modified to suit almost any egion. It contains the fact that an ae of soil to the depth of one foot s estimated to weigh 3,225,00 pounds nd then tabulates the facts, namely, hat within the first foot of soil there s found: 6,722 pounds of phosphorie mid, 32,897 pounds of potash, 47,407 ounds of lime. Thus within the rea f nearly every plant is found four imes this sum per acre, for nearly all lants reach four feet downward with heir roots. "It is figured out that this means ~nough phosphoric acid to supply the vants of 1,400 annual wheat erops tnd of the other constituents even nore. The relation of this to the root avestiations lies in the fact that no 'oot shiould be deprived for lack of .mple ploughing of free search among hese chemicals for what it needs.'' Education turns the wildl sweetbrier nto the queenly rose. E. SH EE HAN Augusta, Ga. ottler of Imperial Ginger kl Root Beer, Chain agne Cider, Wiseola and )omestic Lager Beer in ints, 10 dozen to the cask, 8.50 per cask. Write for complete price ist. 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