Identifier: newenglandmagazi1900bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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mall run-down cottage as a specula-tion. When it came spring, they re-paired it thoroughly and painted it.Then they advertised it to be sold atauction, held the sale, although neitherof them had ever been to an auctionin his life, and cleared $2.50 by thedeal. As I remember now, I should saythat the value of the shares in the dif-ferent cottages varies from about sixtycents each to a dollar and ten cents.Of course a boy who has no money than I have yet done in this article,since that branch of the industrialwork may be looked upon as the foun-dation of the system. In the one hun-dred and fifty-seven acres comprisedin the area of the island there is prac-tically no land that is not available fortillage or for grazing, and used forone or the other of these purposes. Itis the rule that the work of each boyfor the first six months he is at theschool shall be on the farm. In manycases the pupil remains longer on thefarm or is detailed to that work again.Visitors to the school almost alwavs
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THE FARM SCHOOL BAND. cannot buy stock, but if he has moneyhe can make any trade which seems tohim desirable. The shares bought, hedraws his check for the amount, andthe seller deposits this check to thecredit of his account. In this practicein banking, in the management of realestate and the learning to adjust pricesto values, and in the conduct of thecity government, I think these youngvoters of Cottage Row become betterversed in the duties of citizenship thanmany adults ever do. No account of the Farm Schoolwould be complete which did not givea fuller description of the farm itself comment upon the rugged, healthyappearance of the pupils. There is nodoubt that the good health which theyenjoy and the sound constitutionswhich most of them seem to possessare in no small measure due to thehealthy outdoor work. While there isno intention of making farmers of theboys, unless they develop a special fit-ness for it, many have been influencedby their early training at the school tofollow fa

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