academic subjects may be given a "country-life twist." It is the intention of the school to have the teaching of all subjects in the course of study "surrounded by an agricultural halo.” For instance, it is the opinion of the school that high-school agriculture is full of excellent material for written work in English. To make the best use of this material, the English teacher must have an agricultural point of view. The boys and girls in the Farragut School have in the library just mentioned and in the teacher, who has special charge of the bulletins of the library (the teacher of English), a ready source of information for subject matter, not only for their agricultural courses but also for their English. Of course, the English work is not confined to reading and composition dealing wholly with agricultural and rural life. Farm boys and girls need an acquaintance with other literature as much as other boys and girls. However, agriculture and country-life subjects are used as the basis for a large part of the reading and composition work.

In the study of agriculture much use is made of the laboratory. Much more use, however, is made of the school demonstration plats. Here the students see the principles of increasing the soil fertility worked out. They assist in harvesting the crops and in keeping the records of the yield from those under different treatment. Many of the boys have also home gardens cultivated in accordance with the instruction they are receiving in the school. Many boys cultivate an acre of corn and belong to the school corn club. The president of this local club is also president of the county boys' corn club.

The manual training and carpenter work is arranged as follows: The student learns first the names and the uses of the tools found on his bench and of the others supplied for general use. Next he performs a few simple exercises, from which he learns how to saw a square block, make a half lap, a mortise and tenon, and to select and square up rough stock. Then he constructs some useful article of furniture first, with the help of a teacher, working out his own design. He then selects the material from the stock on hand and finishes the piece according to his own ideas. In the second year much time is devoted to mechanical and simple architectural drawing. This is followed by the work in farm carpentry; that is, making various structures used on the farm from working drawings prepared by the student.

In the home-economics course the girls study the composition and preparation of foods during the first year. The course is intended to teach them how to make the best use of various articles of food found on the farms of east Tennessee. The second year is devoted to sewing. The work is practical, and each girl is taught how to make her own clothes.

The practice work in cooking requires two periods a week of 90 minutes each for the full year. An outline of the course follows:

COURSE IN COOKING.

Study and care of kitchen equipment.

Weighing, measuring, cooking temperature, etc.
Principles and practices of fire making.

General cooking, including the following in the order given:

Beverages, sauces, cereals, potatoes, breads, batters, meats (including a study of various cuts and the value, uses, and preparation of each for the table), eggs, milk and cheese dishes, puddings and desserts, pastry, vege tables, salads.

Canning and preserving fruits, vegetables, etc.

Invalid cooking.

Preparation of food for babies.

Serving a meal.

COMMUNITY SERVICE.

The Farragut School is attempting to be more to the community than the ordinary school which confines its attention to instructing the boys and girls who come to it as pupils. It is attempting to be an institution of wider use, and to be of direct value to every man, woman, and child in the community. The following are some of the ways in which the school is serving the community:

On the last Friday night before each full moon there has been held at the schoolhouse, for the past five years, meetings called "moonlight socials." These are community gatherings to which all are welcome. The program varies from meeting to meeting. There is always a liberal allowance of music and usually a talk on a subject of general interest pertaining to some phase of farm and home life. Sometimes the talks are given by outside persons, from the State agricultural college or elsewhere. More often, however, there is a general discussion of a selected subject, led by a few members of the community selected before the meeting. If the subject to be discussed deals with technical phases of agriculture in which they are not interested, the women will meet in another room and discuss some problem of housekeeping. The discussions are made as practical as possible. After the regular program is over the evening is given to general sociability, playing games, and singing familiar songs. Usually some sort of lunch is served. The domestic-science room has facilities which make the serving of a lunch very easy. The meetings are well attended and have become a very important part of the community life.

Other evening meetings are held in the schoolhouse on many special occasions. If the people of the community desire to get together for any purpose, the schoolhouse is always designated as the place of meeting.

The biggest meeting of the year, however, is on Commencement Day. The program lasts all day. In the forenoon the graduating exercises take place, with essays or short talks by members of the graduating class. These essays and talks are usually upon subjects pertaining to farm and country life, and are therefore of more interest to the audience than the ordinary high-school graduation essay or oration. At this forenoon meeting the graduates receive their diplomas. At noon a basket dinner is served on the grounds under the large shade trees. The food contributed by each family is put in a common lot and served as a community dinner. The domesticscience room is utilized to make the lunch more complete. This plan helps make the lunch hour a real social hour. After dinner the visitors inspect the plat demonstrations in rotation of crops, and the progress of the various crops under the different treatments is noted. The features of the demonstration are explained by the principal of the school. At 2 o'clock the people assemble in the school, and there is a Commencement address, usually by some prominent outside speaker. Following this is a baseball game between the high-school team and either a team from some other school or a selected team from among the farmers of the community. In the evening a drama is presented by the students of the school. This part of the program creates great interest and is always well attended.

Another service of the school is in furnishing agricultural reading for the farmers and their wives in the community. The school library contains about 200 books and a large number of Government reports. It also contains about 4.000 bulletins from various experiment stations in the United States. There is an abundance of valuable reading in these bulletins which is not ordinarily available for farmers, because they have no way of determining where the most valuable material is to be found. This school has been very successful in its attempts to overcome this difficulty. One teacher of the school examines all bulletins received. He notes particularly what in the bulletins is of value to the farmers and housekeepers in the territory served by the school. He therefore not only has information on the particular subject discussed by the bulletins, but also is able to put into the hands of the people of his community the material which will be of most value to them. All the bulletins and books of the library are constantly in circulation in the community and are available for young and old people alike. The school building is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout the summer vacation for those who care to visit the library to consult the books and bulletins in the library or to get books, reports, bulletins, or periodicals for home reading.