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NEW YORK, JULY 26. 1924 
Entered at Second-Class Matter, June 26, 1879. at the Post NTr . , nnr 
Office at New Tork. N. Y„ under the Act of March 3. 1879. 
A Rural School House in New York State 
FINE LOCATION.—Much lias been said re¬ 
cently regarding the rural school and the 
“Little red schoolhouse on the hill,” crit¬ 
icizing management, equipment, teachers, 
etc. Not long since a photographer visited 
the school and took a picture of our school 
building with the pupils grouped about it. We knew 
it was one of the most beautiful locations in the 
State, overlooking the Hudson River, and command¬ 
ing also both mountain and valley views, with a 
building architecturally fine, but it was brought more 
vividly to our attention when seen in this picture. 
Situated on the crest of a hill facing the Albany to 
New York State road, about half way between the 
villages of Coxsackie and Athens, it is centrally 
located. 
GENERAL APPRECIATION.—As it is one of the 
main highways, there is much travel, both for busi¬ 
ness and pleasure, over this route. Tourists from 
far and near frequently stop, leave their cars to gaze 
long at the magnificent scenery observed from the 
schoolyard, and remark on leaving: “This is the 
finest rural school property we have seen in our 
travels.” The school building is very nicely ar¬ 
ranged; separate entrances for boys and girls, toilets 
and lavatory in basement for each, steam heated, a 
room for library, spacious schoolroom, amply lighted 
by five large east windows facing the river, through 
which one can catch glimpses of the Berkshires in the 
distance. It is nicely equipped with slate black¬ 
boards, maps and other adequate supplies necessary 
for good work. The interior of the building has re¬ 
cently been redecorated, new window shades hung, 
all of which give a very neat, cheery appearance to 
the rooms. The exterior also received a coat of 
paint during the last Spring. 
ATTRACTIVE SURROUNDINGS.—In coming out 
of the building one faces a valley known as the “Cox¬ 
sackie Flats,” where several of the patrons of the 
district have large and prosperous fruit farms, and 
beyond this the Catskill Mountains, in all their won¬ 
derful beauty, loom up on the western horizon. The 
school during the present year has had an enroll¬ 
ment of about 30. During the past two years eight 
of the older pupils have entered the eighth grade and 
high school at Coxsackie, while three others have 
recently successfully taken regents’ subjects prepar¬ 
atory for entrance. District No. 6, Four Mile Point, 
Town of Coxsackie, Greene Co., N. Y., feels very 
proud of their schoolhouse on the hill, but it does not 
happen to be “red.” It is gray. 
JENNIE A. WHITBECK. 
The Easiest Cover Crop 
O NE of our readers wants us to tell him the best 
lazy man’s way of keeping up a cover crop. 
We do not care very much about prescribing for lazy 
men. We doubt if they should be encouraged, but 
the simplest and easiest cover cropping we ever saw 
was at a place in Delaware where a farmer had 
started a good seeding of Crimson clover in his or¬ 
chard. This clover is a cool-weather plant. It is 
generally seeded in late Summer or early Fall, grows 
through the Fall, and in the Spring rapidly sprouts 
and makes seed. In Delaware the seed is generally 
ready early in May. When seeded in warm weather 
the Crimson clover will not thrive, as a high tem¬ 
perature promptly drives it to seed. In the case 
mentioned there was a good stand of Crimson clover, 
and this was permitted bo go to seed so that the 
plants would fully mature. Then the orchard was 
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