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adjoining cloakroom, closets, and fitting room, a lecture room and a 

 class room for classes in botany, with adjoining office and herbarium. 

 On the second floor are the kitchen, laboratory, pantry, butler's 

 pantry, lockers, dining room, office, two class rooms (one for book- 

 keeping), and rest room. 



At the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute a special three- 

 year course has been inaugurated for those who msh to take agri- 

 culture as their main work, and each boy w^ho undertakes the course 

 will ]^ut in seven hours of every school day in actual field work under 

 the dhection of an instructor, and will also receive two hours of theo- 

 retical agriculture and occasionally some night work. The Shell- 

 banks Farm, which has hitherto been conducted almost entirely on a 

 commercial basis, has recently been turned over to the agricultural 

 department, under the direction of Prof. E. C. Bishop, and will hence- 

 forth be utilized largely for the instruction of agricultural students. 



Marinette County, Wis., is erecting a building for a new agricultural 

 high school, patterned after those already in operation in Dunn and 

 Marathon counties. A bill appropriating -180,000 to St. LawTence 

 University for the establishment of an agricultural course and 

 $12,000 for maintenance has been passed by the New York legislature 

 and signed by the governor. New agricultural high schools have 

 been established at Crookston, Minn., and Calvert, Md. 



CECIL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, CALVERT, MD. 



(PI. IX.) 



Upon request of the patrons in the northern part of Cecil County, 

 Md., for the establishment of a high school at Calvert, the Cecil 

 County school board decided, in the summer of 1906, to establish 

 such a school and give the course of study an agricidtural trend. The 

 school board a])pliod to R. W. Silvester, of the Maryland Agricultural 

 College, and to the United States Department of Agriculture for aid 

 in organizing the school. ^Ir. H. O. Sampson, a graduate of the Iowa 

 State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, who hatl had experi- 

 ence in teaching elementary agriculture in a higli school in Pennsyl- 

 vania, was furloughed from this Office to take charge of the school as 

 principal and teacher of agriculture. The school was opened Novem- 

 ber 5, 1906, in a small two-room school building rented from the Soci- 

 ety of Friends, and having an available area of a])out 9 acres of land 

 adjacent to it. Tliirtj^-eight pupils were em-olled on the first day, and 

 the number has since grown to 51. A small recitation room has been 

 converted into a laboratory and meagerly equij^jxHl with simple appa- 

 ratus, mostly the liandiwork of the princij^al and i)upils. Here 

 experiments iu which the |)uj>ils take i)art are i)orformed daily. 

 The agricultural work is popular among the pupils and is also 



