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people's high schools have been organizetl, and the effort has been to 

 have them so distributed and sufficiently numerous as to make them 

 easil}' accessible to young- men in all parts of the Kingdom. 



It is proposed to add '' special " courses for small farmers who can 

 not attend school for a whole winter, but who would be greath^ bene- 

 fited by having the opportunity to enter upon a brief course of study 

 to last only a few weeks. In connection with these special courses 

 and as a part of the system of instruction small farms of only a few 

 acres are to be attached to the schools as demonstration farms. The 

 purpose is to conduct them not for experimentation, but as illustra- 

 tions or demonstrations of the best methods of successful agricultural 

 production. These "model" farms serve to show how a small farm 

 can be successfully managed, and thus encourage the students to pur- 

 chase and conduct similar farms for themselves. 



High schools for women were undertaken in 1869 as separate insti- 

 tutions, but owing to the brief period, only two or three months in 

 the year during which they could be in operation, the project failed. 

 Later these schools were organized in connection with the high schools 

 for peasants and the people's high schools, as a summer course, begin- 

 ning at the close of the men's winter courses and extending over about 

 three months, May, June, and July. The studies were of a general 

 character during the first year, supplemented by courses in practice, 

 such as cookery, canning, weaving, gardening, poultr}^ keeping, etc. 

 This practical course is made a special feature in the w^ork of the 

 second year. 



In 1903 636 high schools for women had been established and were 

 in successful operation. 



The system, therefore, that has been adopted in Sweden, providing 

 for the instruction of adults in agriculture, consists in establishing a 

 large number of high schools in which agriculture is taught, and which 

 are in session for men for five months and for women three months, 

 the men attending in the winter during the period of suspension of 

 farming operations and the women during the spring and early summer 

 after the men's sessions have ended. 



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