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for the transportation of children to and from school, and the im- 

 possibility of such transportation on account of the bad roads of 

 the neighborhood. Of these three reasons two have been shown 

 to be false; 79% of the patrons declare that they are getting full 

 value for every cent expended; for two years the hacks have 

 made their daily trips, thereby disproving another contention; 

 and at the present time there is a suit in the courts testing the 

 legality of spending school funds for the transportation of pupils 

 to and from school . 



The school-building is a two-story brick structure which con- 

 tains rooms for the grades and high school as well as two labora- 

 tories, manual training room, gymnasium, boiler and playrooms, 

 dressing rooms, closets, etc. It is heated with steam, lighted 

 throughout by gas, has a water-pressure system and power for 

 machinery in the work shop. The laboratories are fitted for 

 biology and agriculture and for chemistry and physics. 



The nature-study is carried on throughout the grades, and 

 special emphasis is laid on that wnich pertains to the farmer. As 

 illustrations of this we find the children emphasizing tne work on 

 noxious weeds; study being directed toward the life-historv, the 

 seed and its dissemination as well as the eradication of the plant. 

 In their study ol trees, aside from the identification, the super- 

 ficial characteristics, etc., the boys and girls go into the character- 

 istics of the wood and its uses on the farm. In the bird work a 

 study is made of the interrelation existing between the birds and 

 trees, birds and insects, birds and the farm crops, — both direct 

 influence and their indirect influences. In their study of insect 

 life in tliis work special attention is called to the life-history and 

 characteristics of those insects which are of economic value or are 

 a detriment to the farmers, as the cut-worm, wire-worm, white 

 grub and corn-root aphis, all of which are the commonest of insect 

 pests. These are some of the problems which the boys and girls 

 are working upon. 



In the high school tour years of agriculture and the same 

 amount of domestic science is offered. During the freshman 

 year one semester of agronomy and one semester of horticulture 

 is offered. The agronomy work covers the identification of the 

 seed of noxious weeds and a study of the habits of each plant. 

 Each student makes collections of these seeds and note-books are 

 required. The selection and judging of seed corn is also studied. 

 Contests in selection and in judging are carried on. 



