More Than 2,000 N.C. Farmers Took Course at Local Agricultural High School Last Winter, Says Roy Thomas, August 1922

Over 2,000 Farmers Take “Short Course”

Over 2,000 North Carolina farmers “went to school” last winter—took short courses. These farmers, located in 68 communities, attended the “farmers’ vocational courses” at their local agricultural high schools for the purpose of studying better methods of farming.

Today there are 75 such high schools in the state with a trained teacher of agriculture at the head of the agricultural work in each school, and 1,800 regularly enrolled high school boys taking the agricultural work. The “farmers’ vocational courses” consist of from 10 to 60 lessons on farm problems and practices concerning which the farmers want information.

--Roy H. Thomas, Supervisor of Agricultural Education

From the August 1922 issue of The Progressive Farmer magazine