The National Farm School in Bucks County, Pa., in cooperation with the Farm Security Administration and the State Department of Public Instruction, today began to train the first contingent of farmers from the mountain areas of Kentucky.
Under arrangements that have been worked out with the Farm Security Administration, the National Farm School will accept groups of 20 to 25 of the Kentucky farmers for periods of three to four weeks of intensive training. They will receive day-by-day experience in the most common and essential tasks of Eastern farming. As they show progress and give evidence of their adaptability, they will be sent on to farms in need of labor and will be replaced by other groups at the school.
Dr. H.B. Allen, president of the School, today pointed out that the orientation program for Southern farmers will in no wise interfere with the School’s long-established three-year course of instruction, nor with the one-year units of specialized training regularly available to boys of 16 years and over. The usual quota of students in these courses will enroll March 31. The School year regularly opens with the spring planting season and continues uninterruptedly for twelve months. Deserving candidates from all parts of the U. S. are accepted in these courses. Tuition and maintenance are free, support coming largely from voluntary contributions.
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