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ill a<j:ricultiiral classes of 9,500, wilh an average of 31 pupils in 

 agriculture to each school. 



It is apparent, therefore, that the number of schools offering sec- 

 ondary courses in agriculture is rapidly increasing, that the public 

 high schools are taking hold of the work with commendable zeal and 

 that the movement is widespread, 34 States being represented in the 

 above compilation. 



RECENT PROGRESS BY STATES. 

 ARKANSAS. 



An appropriation of $100,000 has been made by the Arkansas leg- 

 islature for four secondary agricultural schools. The State has been 

 divided into four districts and governing boards have been appointed 

 to locate the schools and manage them. 



GEORGIA. 



All of the schools provided for by the act of the general assembly 

 of Georgia of 1906, creating a school of agriculture and mechanical 

 arts in each congressional district of the State, were in operation in 

 1909. With the inauguration of these 11 schools, Georgia has in op- 

 eration a definite system of agricultural education beginning with 

 the common schools and extending through a four-year college 

 course. 



Instruction in agriculture in the common schools is under the gen- 

 eral supervision of the state school commissioner and more directly 

 under county school commissioners. The State College of Agricul- 

 ture cooperates with these officers through one man, who gives all of 

 his time to the organization of boys' and girls' industrial clubs, for 

 the growing and studying of corn, cotton, and garden products and 

 the raising of farm animals. These clubs have been in operation 

 since 1906. 



Having finished the common school course, pupils may enter one 

 of the district agricultural high schools for a four-year course, which 

 will fit them for life on the farm and at the same time prepare them 

 to enter the State Agricultural College at Athens, where they may 

 specialize along several different lines in agriculture to prepare more 

 fully for the vocation of farming or for scientific work in the agri- 

 cultural colleges and experiment stations. Young women graduat- 

 ing from the district schools may continue their industrial studies in 

 one of the two normal schools located, respectively, at Athens and 

 Milledgeville. The State is also provided with an agricultural col- 

 lege for white boys at Dahlonega, a college for negroes at Savannah, 

 and several private schools giving instruction in agriculture. 



