Learning by Doing

ID: 1672 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: Farmers' Improvement Society
Learning by Doing

The Farmers’ Home Improvement Society (FIS) founded the Agricultural School in Wolfe City, Texas, in 1906. The school educated students on the farming techniques and practices of FIS. The school also promoted farming as the best occupation and operated a ninety-acre farm that doubled as a source of income and a classroom to practice proper farming techniques. The school closed in 1947 due to a lack of funding.

This file appears in: Farmers' Improvement Society

By Dalton Strouse
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Farmers’ Improvement Society (FIS) worked to help poor farmers escape the cycle of debt caused by the share cropping and credit system which developed in the wake of the Civil War. Although…