. The teaching of agriculture in the high school. chusetts pays one-halfof this amount. The city is fortunate in thisenterprise. About sixty-five years ago, Smith bequeathed a fund to the cityfor an agricultural school. This fund hadaccumulated to the amount of $310,660, whichnow aids in the support of the new indus-trial and agricultural school. A large brickagricultural building has been constructed,and several buildings have been planned. Theschool farm consists of about one hundredacres of land lying on the outskirts of the institution is coeducational, and at presentoff
. The teaching of agriculture in the high school. chusetts pays one-halfof this amount. The city is fortunate in thisenterprise. About sixty-five years ago, Smith bequeathed a fund to the cityfor an agricultural school. This fund hadaccumulated to the amount of $310,660, whichnow aids in the support of the new indus-trial and agricultural school. A large brickagricultural building has been constructed,and several buildings have been planned. Theschool farm consists of about one hundredacres of land lying on the outskirts of the institution is coeducational, and at presentoffers three four-year courses of study, viz., acourse to prepare for farming, a course to pre-pare for mechanical work, and a course toprepare for housekeeping and is no regular college preparatory for admission to the school mustbe at least fourteen years of age, and must A city of about 20,000 population. t jt*j mm ^^^ -jC^Lfc^ t^ JM.; 1^ r f? /i ^W^l ^Tiuu Li tfi BffiliffrfrBtll A Class of Boys Spraying,. A Class of Girls Se\vixg. Agricultural School and Northampton School of Industries, Northampton,Massachusetts. Secondary Education in Agriculture 27 at least have the maturity of mind of the latergrammar-school years. No entrance exami-nation is required ; but the first weeks of schoolare regarded as a period of probation. Text-books and tuition for local pupils are free. ^ At New Holland, Ohio, a village of aboutone thousand people, a high school of the first grade, under the school laws of thatstate is maintained. In 1907-1908 the curricu-lum was reorganized, and a course of secon-dary agriculture was included in the thirdyear. The reason for instituting the coursein agriculture is given in the following words: The larger per cent of the boys and girlswho are enrolled in the village and townshiphigh schools of this state will spend theirlives either in the rural districts or villageswhere the farm life and the agricultural in-dustrie
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