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September, 1910, in connection with Lyndon Institute, Lyndonville, 

 Vt. A two-year course in scientific and practical agriculture will be 

 given, designed to i:)repai"e young men for successful farming under 

 Vermont conditions. The course will extend over nine months of 

 each year and will be open to residents of the State eligible for 

 admission to any approved high school. 



A unique feature of the school is the provision of two methods by 

 which students may pay their expenses, a cash-payment system and a 

 work-payment S3'stem. Boys who choose the latter method will be 

 required to stay at the school throughout the year and will be 

 allowed a maxinunn of $25 a month, with board and lodging, during 

 vacation time and 15 cents an hour for work during the school year. 



The establishment of the school has been made possible through a 

 gift of Theodore N. Vail, president of the American Telegraph & 

 Telephone Co., who has associated with him as an advisory committee 

 the following persons: Ex-Gov. Fletcher D. Proctor; President John 

 M. Thomas, of Middlebury College ; President W. D. Gibbs, of the 

 New Hampshire College; Dean J. L. Hills, of the University of Ver- 

 mont; State Superintendent of Education Mason S. Stone; and John 

 W. Titcomb, of Lyndonville, Vt. The director of the school will be 

 Arthur W. Merrill, a graduate of the New Hampshire College, and 

 for several years teacher of agriculture at the Baron de Hirsch 

 School. 



VIRGINIA. 



The State appropriation for agriculture, home economics, and 

 manual training in at least one school in each congressional district 

 has been increased from $20,000 to $25,000, and additional funds will 

 subsequently be available for extension and demonstration work. 



An organization known as " The Virginia Association of Agricul- 

 tural Schools " was effected at Richmond, November 24, 1909, of those 

 interested in the development of agriculture in these schools. Di- 

 rector S. W. Fletcher, of the Virginia station, is secretary-treasurer 

 of the association. Each principal, agricultural teacher, or director 

 in the 10 State agricultural high schools is an ex-officio vice president 

 of the association, and these with the elective officers constitute the 

 executive committee. 



WISCONSIN. 



The La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Econ- 

 omy at Onalaska, Wis., opened to students October 11, 1909, with an 

 enrollment of 71 boys and 61 girls. A new two-story brick building, 

 with a high basement and connected greenhouse, has been erected on 

 the 17-acre farm which this school will utilize for instruction and 

 demonstration purposes. The two-year course is similar to that in 

 the other county agricultural high schools, except that it includes 



