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A Rural School Meeting 
The annual meeting of the Montgomery 
County Rural School Improvement So¬ 
ciety, which was held at the Old Court 
House, Fonda, od Wednesday, Dec. 10, 
was attended by 40 enthusiastic _ dele¬ 
gates. The report of the county secretary 
showed that 45 school districts in Mont¬ 
gomery County had formed local or¬ 
ganizations of the Society. The total 
county membership was stated to be ap¬ 
proximately 1,100 while the local school 
district societies at Auriesville and Swart 
Hill had each attained a membership of 
nearly 70. It was voted unanimously to 
raise a campaign fund for the purpose of 
furthering organization work in the 
western half of Montgomery County and 
also to assist with State-wide expansion 
of the society. 
The State secretary, who was present, 
reported that over 300 school districts, 
scattered throughout 41 counties, have 
perfected local organizations. 
After thorough discussion the following 
resolutions were formed to meet the 
unanimous approval of all those present: 
RURAL SCHOOLS 
Resolution : Whereas we believe in 
utilizing our best efforts to promote the 
efficient functioning of our country 
schools along practical and economical 
lines, and 
Whereas, we are convinced that to 
attain this object it is pre-eminently im¬ 
portant that we safeguard a full measure 
of home rule in the administration of the 
affairs of our common school districts, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved that we fully endorse the 
labor performed to this end by the New 
York State Rural School Improvement 
Society which brought about the decisive 
defeat of the Downing-Porter Rural 
School bill before the N. Y r . State legis¬ 
lature of 1924. and be it further 
Resolved that, in order to more fully 
safeguard the home rule and increase the 
efficiency of our country schools, we de¬ 
clare ourselves iu favor of the following 
proposed amendments to the education 
law : 
1. All power now possessed by the 
Education Department which enables that 
Department or any member of the official 
family of the Commissioner of Education 
to forcibly consolidate rural schools shall 
be repealed. 
2. The State shall grant rural schools 
an increased quota of public money so as 
to guarantee an allowance of $1,000 per 
teacher for all rural school districts hav¬ 
ing a true valuation per teacher below 
$50.000; $900 per teacher for all rural 
school districts having a true valuation 
per teacher not less than $50,000 and 
below $150,000; $800 per teacher for all 
rural school districts having a true val¬ 
uation per teacher not less than $150,000 
and below $250,000; $700 per teacher 
for all rural school districts having a true 
valuation per teacher not less than $250,- 
000 and below $350,000; $500 per teacher 
for all rural school districts having a true 
valuation per teacher not less than $350,- 
000 and below $500,000, and $400 per 
teacher for all rural school districts hav¬ 
ing a true valuation per teacher of $500,- 
000 or above. 
3. The Department of Education shall 
establish teacher training classes where- 
ever needed and a grade of instruction 
shall be provided in all training classes 
which shall permit the issuance of per¬ 
manent rural school teaching certificates 
to all graduates. 
CHILD LABOR 
Resolution : Whereas, the proposed 
child labor amendment to the National 
Constitution is designed to give Congress 
power to prohibit the labor of all persons 
under IS years of age on farms as well 
as in the unhealthy atmospheres of some 
factories and mines and 
Whereas, we recognize that practical 
physical training of all persons under 18 , 
such as the farm affords, is fully as im¬ 
portant as scholastic training in the 
building of an intelligent and law-abiding 
citizenship, therefore, be it 
Resolved that we declare ourselves 
unalterably opposed to the passage of 
this amendment and be it further 
Resolved that we solicit our represen¬ 
tatives in the legislature to do all in their 
power to secure the defeat of this pro¬ 
posal. 
NEW GOVERNMENT LAND 
Resolution : Whereas 3,000,000 acres 
of muck land situated in the States ofi 
Missouri and Arkansas has been drained 
by the United States government and of¬ 
fered recently for settlement, and 
Whereas, other vast reclamation pro¬ 
jects are under consideration for develop¬ 
ment. and 
Whereas, we believe that there now 
exists a huge surplus of improved farm 
land which will not be needed for a con¬ 
siderable time for purposes of production, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved that we firmly insist that no 
further public lands be reelaimed or 
opened for settlement until the tremen¬ 
dous surplus of improved privately owned 
farm lands, which are now lyiqg idle or 
partly worked, are called into use. 
A resolution was also passed favoring 
a repeal of the State daylight saving law. 
In relation to the plan for increased 
State aid for rural schools rhe following 
quotation was presented from the address 
delivered by Hon. Adelbert Moot, Vice 
Chancellor of the Board of Regents, be¬ 
fore the State conference on rural schools 
which was held during the State Fair at 
Syracuse. 
“The legislature shall provide for the 
maintenance and support of fx-ee common 
schools, wherein all the children of this 
State may be educated.” (State Con¬ 
stitution. ) 
“This duty of the State has not been 
discharged, because of the relatively small 
amount appropriated by the State. We 
are spending about 200 millions a year to 
educate about 1,750,000 pupils enrolled 
in our public schools. Of this amount, 
the State is only appropriating about 
$40,000,000. Of our 48 States I think 
this State is about 45th ; in other words, 
that about 44 States appropriate a rela¬ 
tively larger amount. This is not dis¬ 
charging our State duty. 
“But this not the worst of it. The 
State apportions its money unequally, so 
as to give the least to the schools that 
need it the most, and the most to those 
that need it the least. In other words, 
N. Y. City, where our wealth is so 
largely centered, where it is so easy for 
children and teachers to get to school, 
receives $700 per teacher for its teachers, 
and (lie one-room country school where it 
is difficult for teacher or pupil to get to 
school, at all, many Winter days, receives 
only $300 for its single teacher. As a 
good school is only possible if you have 
a good teacher you will see how contrary 
to the very spirit of the constitution, how 
contrary to all justice, this is. 
“■Why should the teacher in the city, 
where they have the largest wealth, the 
largest salaries, the most desirable places 
in which to teach, the most accessible 
schools, the most desirable places in 
which to live, the largest number of 
facilities to get the most out of life, get 
the largest allowance from the State? 
Why should the allowances for teachers’ 
salaries gradually drop down in other 
cities, villages and school districts, until 
the poor and sparsely settled one-room, 
one-teacher district gets the smallest al¬ 
lowance of all for its teacher? 
“What the State wants is, not more 
expensive and complicated school ma¬ 
chinery, but better schools, and that 
means more money from the State to hire 
good teachers, for good teaching is the 
soul of our schools. 
“The question of better rural schools 
is only part of the question. It must be 
answered by more help from the State 
along lines of common sense, justice and 
tax equalization and not by destroying 
home rule by forcing consolidations 
through anyone in Albany, or elsewhere.” 
The following officers were elected for 
the ensuing year. 
President, C. S. Van Horne; First 
Vice-President. John I. McClumpha; 
Second Vice-President, E. J. Sheehan; 
Secretary, Dewey Deveudorf; Treasurer, 
George 'Walrath. 
D. BOYD DEVENDORF. 
Collection of Overdue Note 
Can a note made four years ago to be 
paid one year from date be collected? It 
was never renewed. The holder died 
last Spring not leaving any will. The 
heirs have the note in their possession 
and are trying to collect. ~ b. 
The legal representative of the estate 
of the holder of the note could sue on the 
note, or if it was transferred in the hold¬ 
er’s liretime the present holder could sue. 
N. T. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, DEC. 27, 1924 
FARM TOPICS 
Chicken Manure and Chemicals. 1575 
Softening Bones for Fertilizer. 1576 
Notes from the Ox-team Travelers. 1577 
Hope Farm Notes . 1580 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Paying for a Monopoly. 1583 
November Milk Returns. 1583 
The Milk Situation in a Nutshell. 1583 
Lame Bull Calf . 1588 
Ear-sucking Calves . 1588 
Fistula of Teat. 1588 
THE HENYARD 
Live Poultry Embargo . 1583 
N. Y. State Egg Contest. 1592 
Gizzard Worms . 1592 
Incubator Run by Electric Power. 1592 
HORTICULTURE 
Protecting Roses in Winter. 1577 
Pruning Everbearing Raspberries. 1577 
Desirable Cherries . 1579 
The J. H. Hale Peach. 1580 
WOMAN AND HOME 
A Farm Woman’s Notes . 1579 
From the Sagebrush Country. 1579 
A Trip to the Hospital. 1581 
Boys and Girls .1584, 1585, 1586, 1594 
Why Not Girl Scouting for Farm Girls.... 1590 
The Pastoral Parson . 1586 
The Home Dressmaker . 1587 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Reflections for the Year’s End.1574, 1575 
An Education in Apple Eating. 1575 
New York Beekeepers Meet. 1581 
Extracting Honey . 1581 
Editorials . 1582 
Martin H. Glynn. 1583 
School Meeting, Syracuse, Dec. 31. 1583 
Cleaning a Well . 1586 
The Manufacture of Yeast . 1590 
Publisher’s Desk . 1594 
Homemade Nicotine Solution . 1590 
Thinning Coal Tar . 1590 
Publisher’s Desk . 1594 
