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into two parts aud provides for the establislimeut of a school to be known as the 

 I'anhandle Agricultural Institute for the counties of Cimarron, Texas, and 

 Beaver. This school also is to be located before 1910, on 80 acres of land 

 deeded to the State, and like the rest will be governed by the State Commission 

 of Agricultural and Industrial Education. There is appropriated $12,000 for 

 the erection of buildings, $5,000 for maintenance in 1910 and $7,000 for 1911. 



An announcement has been received of the courses in agriculture, manual 

 training, and domestic science to be inaugurated this year in the public schools 

 of Glencoe, Minn., under the provisions of the Putnam Act. giving State 

 funds not to exceed $2,500 a year upon condition that half that amount be 

 expended by the local school authorities for the support of instruction along 

 these lines. The work in agriculture provided for in this announcement in- 

 cludes instruction in soils, farm crops, horticulture, animal husbandry, and 

 dairying, this work to be given in a short course of 5 months beginning Novem- 

 ber 1. The work in manual training will be accessory to that in agriculture, 

 and will include the drawing of plans for useful farm implements and struc- 

 tures, elementary work in iron, and carpentry. The high school also purposes 

 doing extension work in farmers' institutes, testing seeds, milk, and other 

 agricultural products, furnishing information useful to farmers, and performing 

 other services similar to the extension work of the county agricultural schools 

 in Wisconsin and Michigan. 



The La Crosse County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy at 

 Onalaska, Wis., opened to students October 11, with an enrollment of 71 boys 

 and 61 girls. A new two-story brick building, witli a highi basement and con- 

 nected greenhouse, has been erected on the 17-acre farm which this school 

 will utilize for instruction and demonstration purposes. The 2-year course is 

 similar to that in the other county agricultural high schooLs, except that it 

 includes military drill for men. A. A. .lohnson is principal of the school. 

 Miss Lucile W. Reynolds, teacher of domestic eccmomy, and P. L. Johnsrud, 

 teacher of agricultural engineering and manual training. . 



Secondary and Elementary Agriculture in Texas. — The legislature of Texas at 

 its last session appropriated $0,000 a year for two years to. the State normal 

 schools located respectively at Huutsville, Denton, and San Marcos for the pur- 

 pose of installing, equipping, and maintaining departments of agriculture, man- 

 ual training, and domestic science, and provided that instruction in these sub- 

 jects shall begin not later than the autumn of 1909. The act also made pro- 

 vision for the introduction of teachers' courses in elementary agriculture in the 

 summer sessions of these 3 normal schools, the College of Industrial Arts for 

 Girls, at Denton, and in summer sessions at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege aud the State University. For the support of this work $3,000 annually 

 was appropriated to be divided equally among the 6 institutions. 



There was a further appropriation of $32,000 to provide a fund from which 

 the State Board is to duplicate amounts not less than $500 nor more than $2,000, 

 that shall have been appropriated by the trustees of any common school dis- 

 trict or independent school district to the establishing, equipping, aud main- 

 taining of departments of instruction in agriculture, including courses in manual 

 training and domestic economy " subsidiary to agriculture." State aid shall not, 

 however, be given more than twice to the same school and the geographical 

 location of the school shall be considered with a view of locating such a school 

 if possible in each of the senatorial districts of the State. Unlike many of the 

 acts intended to promote instruction in agriculture, this one makes it obligatory 

 on the part of the school board to provide laboratories for instruction in botany, 

 zoology, and other elementary sciences related to agriculture, aud land for the 



