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must be enrolled in these courses and a minimum of one year in 

 agriculture and one year in home economics will be required. 



LOUISIANA. 



Provision is made for an annual State appropriation of $25,000, to 

 be divided among the high schools maintaining departments of 

 agriculture approved by the State department of education. Such 

 schools must have a demonstration farm of 5 acres, at least $400 

 worth of agricultural apparatus, tools, and farm implements, and a 

 teacher who is a graduate of an agricultural college and who shall 

 devote his entire time to the agricultural work. Seventeen high 

 schools have established such departments and are receiving State aid. 



MAINE. 



The legislature of 1911 amended the act of 1909 providing State 

 aid for instruction in agriculture and other industrial subjects in 

 incorporated academies, so as to make its provisions apply to free 

 high schools as well as incorporated academies. Schools complying 

 with the regulations of the State superintendent of public instruction 

 as to the teaching of these subjects will be reimbursed for two- thirds 

 of their expenditures for instruction in such subjects, not to exceed 

 $500 in any one year. 



MARYLAND. 



The agricultural experiment station is cooperating with the Balti- 

 more County school board in conducting experiments and demon- 

 strations with corn, potatoes, fertilizers, spraying, and hay crops. 

 Tliis work has been placed under the immediate supervision of the 

 faculty of the Baltimore County Agricultural High School. This 

 school and 8 other high schools in the State are now receiving State 

 aid for the teaching of agriculture. 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



An estate of about $20,000, including about 250 acres of woodland, 

 8 acres of cleared land, and several farm buildings, has been be- 

 queathed to a board of trustees for use in benefiting the people of 

 Barnstable County agriculturally. Special attention is given to 

 fruit growing, market gardening, and poultry raising. A poultry 

 plant has been provided, gardens and orchards established, and 

 arrangements made for further development. Much of the work has 

 been in close association with the local schools of Sandwich. 



The legislature has made it possible for a vocational agricultural 

 school to be established in any existing high school by a town or a 

 group of towns formed into a district. If such a school is approved 



