grazing. The first sod was turned with walking rod plows (Katy Did) cutting twelve or fourteen inch widths and drawn by three mules or horses. cane were planted with a two-row knife planter without further tillage for the first crop. Very few weeds came in the first crops. The majority of these crops were headed by hand with a pocketknife. An industrious farmer could harvest a ton of heads into a wagon and pile them in a three-root row for drying per day. The ordinary wage was one dollar from sun to sun. Tractors and larger plows replaced this first method.

Patrons of the school in later years were: Brit Pearson, Wilson, Will Edwards, Dick Spence, Lowe, Hughes, W. H. Strown, E. W. Brown, McClanahan, Rossi, Avents, Jess Fos­ter, Whitehurst, Will Pearson, Elmer Knight,
Watts, Harris, Knowles, Bozeman. .
T. L. Devin and Mrs. George Tucker taught in the early 1920's.

PRICE SCHOOL
Price school was located in the Whitfield community. It was a two room, two teacherschool, teaching the first ten grades. Approximately 60 pupils attended. Each room was heated by a big coal stove with a metal jacket around the stove to distribute the heat evenly. A windmill furnished drinking water. The rest rooms were outside. A basketball court, volleyball net and a baseball diamond were kept for athletics. Boys and girls played during the 15 minute recess of morning and afternoon and an hour at lunch.

Each student brought their own lunch. Each one walked to school if they lived as close as 2% miles from the schoolhouse. A few rode horses or came in buggies. There was a 3 stall shed that the Starks, Bramlets and Taylors put their horses in during the day. Most of the high school students "ran off" on April Fool or April 1st. They walked through the community. They knew they would get so many "licks" with a board or write the lessons for that day many times.