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struction. The institute is a secondary school, offering courses re- 

 lated to the industries of the region, among which is a four-year 

 course in agriculture. The officers of the corporation include John 

 D. Losecamp, as president, and Lewis T. Eaton, as educational 

 director. 



NEW MEXICO. 



The New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts has 

 established four-year industrial courses of high-school grade in agri- 

 culture, mechanic arts, home economics, and business methods, each 

 of which articulates with a similar college course. Each course con- 

 tains six units of technical work and ten units of regular high-school 

 work. 



NEW YORK. 



A recent New York law authorizes any local school board to estab- 

 lish in connection with a city or village high school or a " union free 

 school " a department or a school of agriculture, mechanic arts, and 

 home making, and directs the State commissioner of education to 

 apportion from the State school moneys to each of these schools or 

 departments the sum of $500 if one special teacher is employed and 

 $200 additional for each additional special teacher. The State educa- 

 tion department is charged with the administration of this law and 

 has appointed F. W. Howe, formerly in this office, as supervisor of 

 agricultural education. 



The same law authorizes the State schools of agriculture at St. 

 Lawrence University, at Alfred Universit}^, and at Morrisville to 

 give courses for the training of teachers in agriculture, mechanic 

 arts, and home making, and gives them the same apportionment of 

 State funds that is given to public high schools. Graduates from 

 approved teachers' courses in these State schools of agriculture may 

 receive licenses to teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and home making 

 in the public schools of the State, subject to such rules and regula- 

 tions as the commissioner of education may prescribe. 



The first year at the New York State School of Agriculture at 

 Alfred University was a successful one, with 75 students in at- 

 tendance. A novel feature of the course of study at this school is the 

 arrangement of its three-year course of study (six months each year) 

 under three heads, viz, for boys, for boys and girls, and for girls. 

 The work under the first and third headings is almost evenly bal- 

 anced in time units, and among the technical studies common to 

 groups one and two are general agriculture, general and agricultural 

 botany, farm law and accounts, iiiral sociology, butter, cheese, 

 poultiy, plant diseases, general and landscape gardening, and insect 

 pests. Besides English, arithmetic, history, and hygiene, careful 



