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affords the school abimdant materials and unusual opportunities for 

 practical work and observation. About 1900 Rev. Francis Goodwin 

 gave the Handicraft Schools of Hartford, Conn., a farm of 75 acres 

 just outside the city for utilization as a school of horticulture. In 

 1901 a school of practical agriculture was opened at Briarcliff Manor, 

 N. y., and maintained through contributions of several business men 

 of New York City, notably Mr. R. Fulton Cutting and the late Mr. 

 Abraham S. Hewitt, for two years, when it was closed on account of 

 failure to secure a permanent endowment of $200,000. There have 

 also been numerous other enterprises for the provision of secondary 

 or elementary education in agriculture, several of which are in active 

 operation. 



The well-known work of Hampton and Tuskegee institutes needs 

 only to be mentioned as typical of the institutions giving agricul- 

 tural instruction for a special portion of our population, and receiv- 

 ing their main support from private funds. The Baron de Hirsch 

 Agricultural School at Woodbine, N. J., with maintenance ex- 

 penses of about $30,000 per annum, is financed mainly by tlie 

 Baron de Hirsch fund for the amelioration of the condition of 

 Jewish immigrants, but has also received some assistance from the 

 Jewish Colonization Association of Paris. The National Farm 

 School at Doylestown, Pa., is a similar enterprise maintained largely 

 by private funds. It is also of interest to note the organization in 

 this country of the Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station, which 

 has for its object the establishment and maintenance of an experi- 

 ment station in Palestine. The collection of over $20,000 for initial 

 equipment and the pledging of at least $10,000 per annum for current 

 expenses is announced. 



A number of gifts have been made which are restricted to a par- 

 ticular line of agricultural work. For example, the University of 

 Minnesota and Harvard University have each received gifts of 2,200 

 acres of forest land for instruction and experimental work, and the 

 Yale Forest School has been the recipient of large sums from the 

 Pinchot and Jessup families and the National Lumber Association. 

 The first chair of agricultural journalism in this country, that at 

 the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, has owed 

 its beginnings and a part of its subsequent maintenance to gifts of 

 Mr. John Clay, of Chicago. A somewhat similar bequest is that of 

 Dr. Charles A. Ring to Cornell University, the income of which is to 

 be used in the advancement of horticultural science. 



Scholarships of various kinds have been endowed at most of the 

 agricultural colleges. One of the largest donations has been that of 

 the late Dr. C. H. Roberts, of Ulster County, N. Y., who gave $30,000 

 in 1906 for five scholarships in the College of Agriculture at Cornell 



