94 EXPEMMENT STATION RECOED. 



Briefly summarized these recommendations are (1) state aid as at present 

 provided for industrial sctiools to any town or group of towns constituting a 

 district for the establishment and maintenance of an independent agricultural 

 school; (2) the establishment of agricultural departments in existing high 

 schools with state aid and with rigid definition and enforcement of vocational 

 standards; and (3) to meet the needs of Worcester by the foregoing provisions. 



The report contains discussions in detail of the following topics: Does Mas- 

 sachusetts farming warrant the establishment of a system of agricultural 

 schools? The system of agricultural schools reconimended for Massachusetts; 

 cooperation between school and home farm necessary to an effective system of 

 agricultural schools for Massachusetts; the part-time project method necessary 

 to an effective system of agricultural schools for Massachusetts; the problem 

 of securing competent instructors for a system of agricultural schools in Mas- 

 sachusetts ; agricultural departments in public high schools the principal pres- 

 ent need in Massachusetts agricultural education; possible locations for agri- 

 cultural schools or departments; recommendations with regard to agricultural 

 education for Worcester; agriculture as a phase of liberal education in the 

 high schools of Massachusetts ; and agriculture as a phase of liberal education 

 in the elementary schools of Massachusetts. 



An appendix contains a proposed law embodying recommendations of the 

 board. 



Report of the Michigan State Commission on Industrial and Agricultural 

 Education (RiJt. Mich. State Com. on Indus, and Ayr. Ed., 1910, pp. 95). — This 

 commission was appointed by the Governor of Michigan in the summer of 1909, 

 and organized by appointing subcommittees on industrial and trade schools, 

 child labor conditions, agricultural education, and rural education. This 

 pamphlet contains the definitions, conclusions, and recommendations of the 

 whole committee, reports of the respective subcommittees, a paper on The 

 Present Condition of Industrial Education in Germany, by E. G. Warriner, and 

 three appendixes containing (a) statistics on agricultural high schools in 

 Michigan and Minnesota, rural districts in Michigan, county agricultural schools 

 in Michigan and Wisconsin, and other data; (b) typical courses of study in 

 agricultural high schools, public high schools in Maine, Iowa, Illinois, and 

 Nebraska, and county agricultural schools in Michigan and Wisconsin, in- 

 dustrial courses in a number of cities, and suggested agricultural and industrial 

 courses for Michigan; and (c) authorities, including a list of schools visited 

 and a bibliography. 



Among the recommendations of the commission are (1) the pi-ovision of at 

 least one high school with a four-year course in each township; (2) the in- 

 troduction as soon as possible of agriculture, manual training, and home 

 economics into all high schools; (3) certification of all teachers of agricultural 

 and industrial subjects; (4) state supervision of all agi'icultural and industrial 

 coui-ses, and (5) state aid for schools introducing high school courses in agri- 

 culture and home economics, as follows: (a) The total not to exceed $30,000 

 for the first year, $.50,000 for the second year, and $100,000 for any subsequent 

 year, (b) an equal division of the funds between agriculture and home econo- 

 mics on the one hand, and industrial courses on the other, and (c) schools 

 certified for aid in agriculture and home economics to receive $500 for the first 

 teacher employed, and $250 for each other teacher employed, and no school to 

 receive more than $1,000 in all. 



Some observations on hig'h school agriculture, L. Anderson {Nature-8ttidy 

 Rev., 7 (1911), No. 3, pp. 77-79). — The author discusses schools that came under 

 his observation during an extended trip for the purpose of visiting special agri- 

 cultural schools and public high schools having agricultural departments. He 



