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service. ]Mj'. Smith has been in Georgia on this detail most of the time 

 since October 1. From his prehminary report of December 24, 1906, 

 to the Chief of the Bureau of Soils, who transmitted the same to the 

 Director of this Office, the following statements concerning the loca- 

 tion of the schools and the donations for their equipment are taken. 



The movement seems to have met mth nuich popular favor on all 

 sides, resulting in gifts to the State from private sources of about 

 3,044 acres of land, valued at about $137,500, and cash donations 

 amounting to $470,000, a total of $607,500. Including the electric 

 light, water, and telephone privileges, and sewerage work, the aggre- 

 gate value of gifts so far made the State from private sources will 

 amount to over $800,000. The cash donations are intended to 

 be used only for the erection of buildings and other fixed improve- 

 ments on the various school grounds. 



Each school has a local board of trustees appointed by the governor 

 and consisting of one member from each county in the district. Each 

 board is to cooperate with the governor and the faculty of the State 

 College of Agriculture at Athens in deciding upon courses of study 

 and lines of farm work to be carried on. 



The board of trustees of the University of Georgia, which has 

 general supervision of the schools, has decided that the schools shall 

 be coeducational; that the course of study shall extend over four 

 years, including one year of common or elementary school work and 

 preparing graduates for entrance at the State College of Agriculture; 

 that the minimum age for entrance into the schools be 14 years for 

 boys and 13 3^ears for girls; that the scholastic year extend over 

 forty weeks; that the programme be so arranged that each student 

 shall devote at least three hours of each day to class-room work and 

 three hours to farm, home, shop, or laboratory work; that the girls 

 be provided with suitable training in cooking, sewing, home economics 

 and kindred subjects, and that short courses for adult farmers be 

 provided in so far as the same may not conflict ^vith the other work 

 of the schools. 



In order to keep the work moving smoothly on the school farm, it 

 is proposed to arrange the classes into sections, so that while two 

 sections are engaged in class-room work, the other two will be 

 employed in home, laboratory, plat, and field work. The sections 

 will probably have half-day shifts, which means, for example, that a 

 given student will have all his studies in the forenoon and all his shop 

 and field work in the afternoon, while another student will have the 

 reverse order. 



The only expense to the students will be the cost of board, which 

 it is estimated will come to about $10 a month. The proposed course 

 of study provides for manual labor on the farm, for which the student 

 is to receive pay that may amount to $5 or more a month, thus making 



