Maryland Agricultural College Bulletin, Vol3, No2, October-December, 1906 . d Minne-sota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Maine, and just recently in Alabamaan Agricultural High School has been started in each Congres-sional District, and in Maryland, as well, we find an AgriculturalHigh School recently established in Cecil County. These county schools of agriculture are a new feature in theAmerican system of education, and the interest which they haveawakened among the country folk speak strongly in their , the progress which they have made and the work whichthey are doing is causing the le
Maryland Agricultural College Bulletin, Vol3, No2, October-December, 1906 . d Minne-sota, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Maine, and just recently in Alabamaan Agricultural High School has been started in each Congres-sional District, and in Maryland, as well, we find an AgriculturalHigh School recently established in Cecil County. These county schools of agriculture are a new feature in theAmerican system of education, and the interest which they haveawakened among the country folk speak strongly in their , the progress which they have made and the work whichthey are doing is causing the leading educators and prominent menof affairs to grow enthusiastic in their commendation. But whilethese schools are proving successful, there is need of all the schoolsbeing articulated into a uniform system. There should be a grad-ual ascendency from the primary work, through the High Schoolto the Agricultural College. Each step in the students educationwould then keep leading him on to larger and broader fields ofknowledge, applicable in every respect to his lifes 3i At the State Institutions, so wisely provided for by the Na-tional and State Governments, a student can get a broader founda-tion and a more thorough knowledge of the underlying principlesof agriculture than elsewhere. There workshops and laboratoriesare fitted out with the best of apparatus for personal investigationby the students, and by reason of the excellent live-stock equipmentat a few of the colleges, young men are able to make a thoroughstudy of the different breeds of live stock. They are given instruc-tion in judging stock until they become quite expert judges ofbreed characteristics and of the animal form which can best per-form a given work. Instruction in the judging of grains, andespecially of corn, is given, and only recently large farm machinefactories are helping to make up the equipment in farm machineryto aid the student in his studies and investigations. Specialists in all lines are emp
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