1254 New York State Agricultural Society 



Your committee on agricultural education, therefore, instead of 

 submitting- a plan of its own, lays before the society for considera- 

 tion the report of the state advisory board, believing that such 

 report, while possibly not beyond criticism in every detail, is on 

 the whole well considered and judicious. 



The report adopted by the state advisory board is as follows : 



1. That the main effort toward the introduction of agricul- 

 tural education, whether through state or local aid, be directed 

 toward the study of agricultural and rural subjects in the public 

 high schools. 



2. That in addition to those institutions already authorized 

 to train teachers of agriculture, special and adequate provision be 

 made for training such teachers at the State IsTormal College and 

 in one or more normal schools. 



3. That the State Department of Education give direction at 

 a few points distributed Avith reference to the leading agricultural 

 industries, to the development of adequate teaching equipments in 

 high schools which may serve as examples and illustrations for the 

 further extension of such equipment. 



4. That the special state schools already established, be de- 

 veloped toward teaching home economics and agricultural tech- 

 nology, the latter somewhat specialized for each school. 



5. That the further development of the special state schools, 

 when this may safely and wisely be accomplished, shall be made 

 with reference chiefly to the fruit and vegetable growing interests, 

 under which policy the southeastern and western parts of the state 

 would be considered by the establishment of one school in each of 

 those sections ; and thereafter special schools of agriculture shall 

 be established only if the people of a locality determine whether 

 they desire a school and will take a substantial part in its financial 

 support. 



G. That this board favors legislation enabling cities of the first 

 and second class to establish public schools of agriculture either 

 within or without the limits of said cities. 



Y. That in schools of agriculture hereafter established, the 

 Commissioner of Education, the Commissioner of Agriculture, and 

 the Director of the State College of Agriculture at Cornell TTni- 

 versity, shall be ex-officio members of the boards of trustees. 



