The high
school is located in the district reserve as near the center of the
district as conditions will permit in the vicinity of the court house
and the Governor's residence and has adjoining it not less than one
thousand acres, according to the population of the district, so as to
make it as self-sustaining as possible and to teach the students
agriculture, horticulture and the care and management of stock and
poultry.
"We have a foundry, machine shop, woolen mill, cotton mill and chemical
works at every high school, and while both sexes are taught farming and
gardening the boys are taught mechanical trades and the girls knitting,
spinning, weaving, cooking, housekeeping and nursing, so as to know how
to take care of the sick and injured, and at the age of eighteen years
the boys are drafted into the army and serve three years, building
railways, levees, canals, irrigation ditches, docks, warehouses and
other public buildings, and the girls are sent to the chemical
factories, woolen mills, cotton mills, paper mills, flax mills, sugar
mills and tobacco factories. No exceptions are made from service; all
must serve.
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