12 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



is properly developed. We are convinced that agricultural and 

 industrial education must be carried on side by side with general 

 education by our school authorities. We believe that the State 

 Department can care for this form of education as successfully 

 as it has cared for the older forms, and that it can do it without 

 great expense by eliminating some of the other branches that 

 are not so essential. 



