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military drill for men. A. A. Johnson is principal of the school, 

 Miss Lucile W. Reynolds teacher of domestic economy, and P. L. 

 Johnsrud teacher of agricultural engineering and manual training. 

 A short course for farmers was held in the winter. 



HIGH SCHOOL EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE. 



The agricultural schools of secondary grade and the public high 

 schools having departments otf agriculture in charge of trained teach- 

 ers of agriculture are finding many opportunities to serve their peo- 

 ple in other ways than through the students in regular attendance at 

 the schools. This work is usually done in cooperation with the State 

 colleges of agriculture, the State agricultural experiment stations, or 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, which have been liberal 

 in supplying lecturers and illustrative material for short winter 

 courses, farmers' institutes, corn congresses, local demonstrations, and 

 various judging contests and other popular types of instruction in 

 agriculture. 



THE BALTIMORE COUNTY PLAN. 



The Agricultural School of Baltimore County, Md., has in the 

 single year of its existence develoiDed some outside work for each class 

 of people in the community. Before the opening of the school and 

 before the building was completed, the principal elect and teacher of 

 agriculture, a stranger to the State, was in the county getting ac- 

 quainted with the people, making card indexes of them, and attend- 

 ing their agricultural meetings and teachers' institutes. In this way 

 he acquired a fund of information concerning the people and their 

 needs which has since served as a guide in the work of the school. 

 Cooperation betw^een the people and the school was the keynote of his 

 creed and the first public meeting for the dedication of the new school 

 building was a partial consummation of his plans. The success of 

 this meeting, for which the men's agricultural club and the women's 

 home interest club were made responsible, was the means by which 

 the active interest of all the people was aroused and their attitude at 

 this first meeting indicated that they could be depended upon to do 

 their share toward making the school a success. 



The first extension work undertaken was a series of monthly meet- 

 ings for rural teachers who were being urged by the county superin- 

 tendent to teach agriculture, but did not feel competent to undertake 

 the work. They were invited to the agricultural school for an all- 

 day session one Saturday each month. Several meetings of this sort 

 were held, the morning hours being spent in lessons on general school 

 methods and administration, while the afternoon was devoted to, 

 lessons in agriculture, illustrated by a laboratory exercise which each 

 teacher was required to perform. Such exercises were chosen as could 



