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Mcallen Daily Press
Mcallen, Hidalgo County, Texas
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Miss Jessie Parker, Iowa superintendent of public instruction, suggested a more realistic approach to teaching agriculture in high schools, emphasizing economics like marketing, prices, and conservation over production, due to global financial conditions. She called a conference for school superintendents.
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DES MOINES, Ia., June 20.-(INS) —A more realistic approach to the problems of modern agriculture was suggested recently by Miss Jessie Parker, Iowa superintendent of public instruction.
"Overemphasis has been placed on production," Miss Parker said in a letter to school superintendents calling a conference on teaching of agriculture in the high schools,
"The unusual financial conditions that prevail throughout the world make a change in the type of instruction seem necessary."
The letter then suggested that more stress should be placed on agricultural economics, including co-operative marketing, price levels for producer and consumer, general farm management, conservation, erosion control, relation of the farm to the government, tenancy problem and the value of home ownership.
Miss Parker was elected last fall on the Republican ticket.
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Iowa
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June 20
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Miss Jessie Parker suggested a more realistic approach to problems of modern agriculture in a letter to school superintendents, calling a conference on teaching agriculture in high schools. She noted overemphasis on production and the need for change due to unusual financial conditions worldwide. The letter suggested more stress on agricultural economics, including co-operative marketing, price levels for producer and consumer, general farm management, conservation, erosion control, relation of the farm to the government, tenancy problem, and value of home ownership.