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the state, — will probably tell you about several as he has several 

 diflfereut types of agricultural projects in operation in his agricul- 

 tural department at the present time. This boy is preparing the 

 grouud for an acre of corn. He has taken as his agricultural pro- 

 ject the raising of an acre of corn. What particular project the 

 boy takes, depends upon his home conditions and it is an individual 

 matter in every case. This boy decided that he would raise 1,50(3 

 tomato plants and he did that. He raised them and canned and 

 marketed them. He bought himself two canning outfits before the 

 season was over and he canned beans as well as the tomatoes. On 

 the 15th of last June — and the reason I have the date is that 

 exevy boy who carries on an agricultural project must keep a 

 daily record of what he does in connection with that project, in 

 Older to have some record of the methods employed, and expense 

 and labor and everything, everyone must keep this daily record — 

 this boy kei)t his daily record and that is the reason I happen to 

 know that it was on the 15th of June of last year when we had 

 a frost and he covered 500 of his 1,500 tomato plants and the 

 others he went out early in the morning and wet them in order 

 to save tUem. He put his tomatoes on the market and the brand 

 was known as the Waterford brand. 



Now while we are providing practical education for the boys, we 

 are also giving some attention to practical education for the girls, 

 and there is a side of our education which we have not as yet 

 developed very much. I am not going into that phase of it. That 

 subject has probably beeu discussed by those of your own staff 

 who are giving this matter serious and constant attention. While 

 we know something about a balanced ration for a chicken and a 

 hog and a steer and a coav, as yet we know very little about a 

 balanced ration for a, man or a woman or a boy or a girl, and 

 it is infinitel}^ more important that we know something about a 

 balanced ration for ourselves than for the hog or the hen, and I 

 believe that our education will be so modified that every girl will 

 receive some instruction along this line. A reasonable amount of 

 dressmaking, plain sewing lirst, some little fancy sewing in case 

 some individual may desire it, but the real, every-day, practical 

 sewing. Some mothers can and have, many mothers can and have 

 taught their girls practical sewing, but there are still other things 

 those same girls might learn under the direction of a capable 

 seamstress. These are some things made by some Freshmen girls 

 in the home-making department in one of our agricultural high 

 schools. I believe that in the making of those things and in pay- 

 ing attention to the cost of the materials used, the girl has re- 

 ceived as much culture as in a lesson in algebra and as much 

 mental training. Basketry is taught in some of our agricultural 

 high schools. 



There are many things that can be introduced in these schools. 

 Now if the process of carrying bricks from the ground up a ladder 

 on to the scaffold of a building in the process of erection, after 

 being scrutinized carefully, could be so revised that man's efficiency 

 could be increased from 25% to 50%, it is barely probable that 

 the sim})le processes of laundering, washing and ironing, might per- 

 haps, with profit, stand some inspection. It is barely possible that 

 some of the methods that our girls are familiar with, might be 



