334 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



The manual training and domestic science outfits, costing about 

 $164, were likewise largely contributed tlirough the united and intel- 

 ligent efforts of the neighborhood. In fact, cooperation seems to be 

 a characteristic of the community. The mothers of the community 

 are loyal supporters of the school in all its suggestions and requests. 

 They furnish all the material for tlieu' own cooking demonstrations 

 which occur each Friday afternoon. (PI. XV, fig. 1.) Some of the 

 different phases of home economics discussed at these meetings are, 

 labor-saving devices, food adulterations, sanitation, diseases common 

 to rural communities, and many other subjects equally valuable. 



Very often class assembhes are held on Friday afternoons. The 

 program may consist of a discussion of (1) some great achievement 

 of the past or present, (2) some phase of agriculture, or (3) history. 

 After these exercises the mothers go to the school kitchen where the 

 teacher in charge gives a demonstration on some problem connected 

 with her work. Then follows a social hour, or perhaps a talk on 

 some feature of school work, or some topic relating to both the home 

 and the school. After this they visit the boys at work in the wood 

 shop and there come into personal touch with the teacher and his 

 work. Tliey are also given the opportunity to read the current 

 literature upon the library table and draw books for home reading. 



UTAH. 



The State board of education of Utah has provided that every 

 accredited high school in the State must teach agriculture in order 

 to participate in the mamtenance fund provided for high schools. 



The 1911 legislature provided for the establishment of an experi- 

 ment station at the Panguitch School, in Gai4ield County, formerly 

 an Indian school, also for the teaching of agriculture at the school. 



VERMONT. 



The Legislature of Vermont passed a bill establishmg a State school 

 of agriculture with an appropriation of S20,000 for buUcUngs, repairs, 

 and equipment, and $10,000 annually for maintenance. The bill 

 also makes provision for the discontinuance of the State Normal 

 School at Randolph, and the transfer of its property to the trustees 

 of tlie new school of agriculture. This gives the school a fairly good 

 equipment of buildings and it is understood that suitable land can 

 be prociured in the vicinity. The agricultural scJiool at Lyndonville 

 had a full attendance and a successful year. 



WISCONSIN. 



An act of the legislature of 1911 provides for State aid of $250 for 

 each department of manual training, home economics, or agriculture 



