332 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The superintendent of schools in Wake County, N. C, assisted by 

 the Women's Betterment Association of the county, successfully 

 inaugurated 11 school farms, each having an area of about 2 acres, 

 and planted to cotton, tobacco, corn, and wheat. These are con- 

 ducted in connection with rural schools and are worked by both 

 children and adults, each workday on the school farms being made a 

 social event. Over 1,200 persons have participated in the work. 



NORTH DAKOTA. 



An act approved March 18, 1911, provides that any high school, 

 graded, or consolidated rural school having faciUties to do agricul- 

 tural work and mamtaining an agricultural department shall receive 

 $2,500 a year of State aid, provided, however, that the number of 

 schools the first year be limited to five and that an additional number 

 of not more than five may be added every two years. Owing to a 

 veto by the governor of the provisions to carry out this act for 1912, 

 there will be no funds for these schools until 1913. Provision was also 

 made for county agricultural and training schools. 



OHIO. 



The General Assembly of Ohio passed a bill requiring that agri- 

 culture be taught in all the common schools of that State except 

 those in city school districts. This bill also provides for dividing the 

 State into four agricultural districts and the appointment by the State 

 commissioner of common schools of a superintendent of agricultural 

 education for each district. 



"Four years ago," according to G. A. Bricker, "there were but 

 four high schools in Ohio that taught the subject of agriculture; 

 to-day there are 270 high schools that teach it." 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



The new school code of 1911 provides that agriculture shall be 

 taught in township high schools; also that a portion of the income of 

 the State school fund may be used "to promote education in conser- 

 vation, forestry, and agricultural and industrial pursuits." 



TEXAS. 



The Bonliam High School took advantage of the provision for State 

 aid for teaching agriculture, manual training, and home economics, 

 enlarged and equipped laboratories for the work, and purchased 5^ 

 acres of land adjoining the school. The first-year students have com- 

 plete charge of the school farm, and upon them rests the responsibility 

 of preparing the ground, selecting the seed, planning the rotations. 



