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The plans of expenditures for salaries in agricultural subjects 

 must in addition show that the controlling purpose of the education 

 is to fit for useful employment, that the training is less than college 

 grade, and that it is designed to meet the needs of persons over 14 

 years of age who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter 

 upon the work of the farm or of the farm home. The State or local 

 community must provide the necessary plant and equipment, includ- 

 ing a school farm or other farm for use in at least six months of 

 supervised practice in agriculture per year, as well as contribute one- 

 half the expenditure for the salaries of the agricultural teachers and 

 supervisors, and bear the entire cost of all supplementary instruction. 



The requirements are very similar as regards expenditures for 

 salaries of teachers of trade, home economicSj and industrial sub- 

 jects, except that no provision is made for the federal payment of 

 salaries of supervisors or directors in these branches. Practical work 

 in these subjects is required for those not already employed, and 

 there are also provided part-time classes in subjects " to enlarge the 

 civic or vocational intelligence of workers over 14 and less than 18 

 years of age," and evening industrial schools which " confine instruc- 

 tion to that which is supplementary to the dail}^ employment." 



The training of teachers and supervisors is restricted to persons 

 who have had adequate vocational experience or contact in the line 

 of work for which they are preparing themselves, or are acquiring 

 such qualifications as a part of their training. The federal appro- 

 priations for teacher training must be divided among agricultural, 

 trade and industrial, and home economics subjects, no one of these 

 subjects being granted more than 60 nor less than 20 per cent of 

 the State's allotment for that year. After June 30, 1920, federal 

 appropriations for salaries in either agriculture or in the industrial 

 subjects can not be utilized unless the State is providing for teacher 

 training in these lines. 



The federal appropriations to the States are divided into three 

 distinct groups, providing respectively for the payment of salaries of 

 teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects; for the 

 payment of salaries of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects; 

 and for the preparing of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agri- 

 cultural subjects^ and of teachers of trade and industrial and home 

 economics subjects. The allotment in each of these groups begins 

 with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918^ the amounts increasing for 

 several years to a permanent maximum. 



The main initial appropriation for salaries in agricultural subjects 

 is $500,000. This is increased by $250,000 per annum during the next 

 six years and then by $500,000 per annum during the next two years, 

 making an appropriation of $3,000,000 for the fiscal year 1926 and 



