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home projects is being carried oii bj a boy fifteen years old. He 

 studied poultry husbandry last year and chose for his problem to 

 determine the cost and net income of a small flock of hens for 

 one year. He set seventy-five white leghorn eggs under five hens, 

 May 1, 1912. The following were some of the articles constructed 

 by this boy from plans and specifications drawn by him — coops 

 and yards for young chickens, feed hoppers, roosts, nests, water 

 fountain, house and yard for winter. A suitable system of book- 

 keeping was devised and account is kept of all income and expendi- 

 tures, including estimates not purchased. The young roosters are 

 sold for broilers and the pullets kept through the winter. Each 

 pullet is numbered and is to be trap nested for eggs. A weekly 

 report is made to the teacher of agriculture and the whole project 

 is to be summed up by the boy in a thesis to be written next spring. 

 These schools must reach out and aid those who cannot attend 

 them for full time. The Division of Vocational Schools has 

 pointed out the necessity of and opportunity for the establishment 

 of a system of continuation schools which would provide for the 

 boys and girls who are employed at least part of the time. The 

 schools of agriculture are already, in many places, filling this need. 

 A large number (mostly boys) of those enrolled in the work in 

 agriculture attend from three to six months of the year. Some 

 of these study only the vocational subjects ; others enter the full 

 curriculum. Even more effort should be made to meet the needs 

 of these pupils. They are usually after education rather than 

 counts or diplomas. I offer an illustration of this work taken from 

 school announcement of the Belmont High School. 



short course ix agriculture offered tttts winter to the 



boys of this region 

 Realizing that many boys are unable to attend school because of 

 their needed services on the farm in the fall and spring and feel- 

 ing that this ought not necessarily to deprive them of all educa- 

 tional advantages, the Board of Education of Belmont High 

 School offers a short course in agriculture this winter to all in this 

 vicinity who may care to take advantage of tliis splendid oppor- 

 tunity of extending their oduontion a little. Outside of the state 

 agricultural scliools it is believed that there is not such an oppor- 



