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LOUISIANA. 



The lewisktiire of Louisiana passed a law for the encouragement 

 of ao;ricultural teacliin<>: in hi<rh schools and voted $500 to each school 

 maintaining a course approved by the state board of education. 



MARYLAND. 



An agricultural and industrial school for negroes has been estab- 

 lished at Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Md. The purpose of 

 the institution is to give instruction in agriculture, mechanics, and 

 househokl arts, and to prepare teachers to teach agriculture in the 

 rural schools. George H. C. AVilliams, former instructor in biology 

 at Armstrong Manual Training School, AVashington, D. C, is the 

 principal. 



MASSACHUSETIS. 



Smith's Agricultural School and Xorthampton School of Tech- 

 nology Avas opened to students, and at the close of the first week the 

 enrollment was 114, of whom 30 were girls in the household economics 

 course, 30 boys in the agricultural course, and 54 boys in the mechanic 

 arts course. The agricultural course for the first year includes soils 

 and plant life, physical geography, elementary science, practical 

 arithmetic, bookkeeping, free-hand drawing, English, algebra, xVmer- 

 ican history, civil government, and mechanical work ; for the second 

 year, animal husbandry, botany, farm chemistry, farm physics, plane 

 geometry, English, general histor}', and mechanical work. The course 

 in mechanic arts during the first two years is the same as that of the 

 agricultural course except that chemistry, mechanical drawing, and 

 shop practice take the place of soils, plant life, and animal hus- 

 bandry, and the household economics course diflFers from the agri- 

 cultural course only in offering sewing or cookery in place of soils, 

 plant life, and animal husbandry. Applicants for admi:'on to this 

 school who are graduates of rural schools, or who have passed the 

 ninth grade in other schools, and are 14 years of age or older, may 

 be admitted without examination. 



A new agricultural high school has been established at Montague 

 with a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural College as teacher 

 of agi'iculture. 



MICHIGAN. 



The North Adams high school added an agricultural course to its 

 curriculum, in charge of R. C. Carr, a graduate of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College. The course was conducted under the direction 

 of AV. II. French, professor of agricultural education at the college, 



