A Country County
Survey
Here’s a hint for wide-awake county school superintendents
in North Carolina.
Out in Wisconsin the school children directed by a life
school officer recently took stock of the 3,412 farm homes in one county. Here
is what they found.
498 country homes supplied with running water
320 had bath rooms and inside toilets
407 had power washing machines
520 had electric and acetylene lights
129 had open-air sleeping porches
850 had screened porches
918 had pianos
1,651 had daily newspapers
1,516 had current magazines
2,126 had farm papers
1,878 had automobiles
97 had gasoline tractors
139 had fruit-spraying outfits
903 had incubators
127 had milking machines
1,234 had siloes
They found 19 creameries and 28 cheese factories in this one
county.
It is significant that nearly 9 out of every 10 farm homes
were occupied by owners. The farm tenant homes were only 398. Nearly anything
worth while can happen in an area of home-owning farmers, and nearly everything
falls to pieces under the curse of excessive farm tenancy—schools, churches,
whatnot.
Is there any county in North Carolina that has the home and
farm equipments of this Wisconsin county?
Which one comes nearest the record of this Wisconsin county
in home comforts, conveniences, and luxuries?
What are the facts indicative in this wise of county wealth
and culture in the various counties of North Carolina?
The county school superintendent, teachers, and children
could assemble the facts in any county in a single week.
The bare facts, whatever they are, would be tremendously
informing and stimulating.
In one country county in North Carolina in 1915 we fund
running water in only 9 of 3,400 farm homes.
What corps of teachers in North Carolina will undertake to
make a county survey of the sort these Wisconsin teacher and school children
have just published?
A sample survey card for this kind of Country Home Stock
Taking will be furnished upon application to the University News Letter.
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