370 REPORT OF OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 



MARYLAND. 



The Legislature of Maryland passed a new high-school law provid- 

 ing State aid for agriculture, home economics, manual training, and 

 business courses in two classes of high schools. In high schools of the 

 first class, with at least 80 high-school pupils and a four-3^ear course 

 of study, the State will give $400 toward the salary of each of two 

 special teachers, and in high schools of the second class, with at least 

 35 high-school puj^ils and a three-year course of study, $400 toward 

 the salary of one sjoecial teacher. 



The Agricultural High School of Baltimore County, at Sparks 

 Station (P. O. Philopolis), Md., was opened in the fall of 1909 and 

 has had a successful year. B. H. Crocheron, a graduate of Cornell 

 University, is principal and teacher of agriculture. The school has 

 7 acres of land and a new granite building, containing five class- 

 rooms, two of which can be converted into an auditorium which will 

 seat 300 persons. The basement contains three laboratories and a 

 farm-machinery room. The building has heating, lighting, and 

 water systems. 



The school is a consolidated one, comprising what was formerly 

 four schools, and is entirely supported b}^ county funds and local 

 contributions. The pupils come by train, by private conveyance, or 

 in school wagons, of which there were three the first j^ear. There 

 were 50 pupils in the high school the first year and considerably more 

 in the grades. The course of study includes all of the usual high- 

 school subjects except the foreign languages, which are replaced by 

 agriculture, home economics, and manual training. 



The work of the school during the year was rather remarkable in 

 the attention given to the instruction of farmers and their wives. A 

 description of this feature of the work is given on page 374. 



MICHIGAN. 



Under the stimulus afforded by the department of agricultural 

 education at the Michigan Agricultural College the number of pub- 

 lic high schools maintaining departments of agriculture is increasing 

 as rapidly as qualified teachers can be provided for the work. The 

 teachers of agriculture in these schools have organized the Society 

 for the Promotion of Agricultural Education in the Public Schools. 



MONTANA. 



The Billings Polytechnic Institute was opened at Billings, Mont., 

 the first week in October, 1909, occupying temporary quarters pend- 

 ing the completion of seven buildings which are in process of con- 



