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particular specialty. The practical talk and demonstration on the 

 farm close the subject. The school board has arranged to have a 

 local expert judge of stock accompany the class whenever it visits a 

 herd of cattle. 



The expense of carrying on this field work is practically nothing, 

 as a group of public-spirited citizens has offered the use of their auto- 

 mobiles in taking the class to the various farms and charge merely 

 for the amount of gasoline used in making the trips. 



The last legislature appropriated $100,000 for a new agricultural 

 school, to be located at Curtis on a 20-acre campus within the city 

 limits. It will own and use for demonstration and other purposes a 

 413-acre farm. 



NEW JERSEY. 



According to the 1911 laws, one of the deputy commissioners of 

 education will act as inspector of industrial education, including 

 agriculture. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



The Legislature of North Carolina passed a law providing for a 

 "county farm-life school" in each county complying with certain 

 provisions of the act. The schools can not be located in any city or 

 town of more than 1,000 inhabitants, nor within 2 miles of any city 

 or town of more than 5,000 inhabitants. The county, township, 

 school district, or all these combined, must provide at least $2,500 

 a year for maintenance, and must also furnish equipment consisting 

 of a school building, dormitory buildings for not less than 25 boys 

 and 25 girls, a barn, a dairy building with the necessary equipment, 

 and a farm of not less than 25 acres of good land. 



The high-school departments maintained under the present State 

 law are to be conducted in connection with each county farm-life 

 school. The teachers must hold the prescribed high-school teachers' 

 certificates on all required subjects except Latin, Greek, and modern 

 languages. Men must also have certificates from the State board of 

 examiners and the president of the North CaroHna College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts attesting to satisfactory qualifications for 

 their special work, while the women must have similar certificates 

 from the State board of examiners and the president of the State 

 Normal and Industrial College. Provision is to be made in these 

 schools for regular courses in agriculture and home economics, and 

 also for extension and demonstration work and short courses for 

 adult men and women. 



A school meetmg all of the requirements imposed by this law may 

 receive from the State $2,500 annually for maintenance, except that 

 not more than 10 schools may be established in any one year and not 

 more than one such school in any county. 



