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versity of Minnesota, which has recently closed its fifteenth 3"ear of 

 successful work. Its equipment and staff of instructors are in everj' 

 way comparable with the best of our agricultural colleges, and its 

 course of stud}^ covering three years of six months each, includes: 

 For the boys, music, English, mathematics, drawing, botan}^, chem- 

 istry, agricultural physics, agronomy, animal hus])andry, dairying, 

 horticulture, poultry culture, dressing and curing meats, forestiy, 

 veterinar}' science, carpentry, blacksmithing, and military drill; for 

 the girls, the same subjects, except that courses in domestic science 

 and practice are substituted for shop work and a portion of agricul- 

 ture and gymnastics for militar}" drill. For young men practical 

 experience in field work at the university farm or elsewhere is required 

 for graduation. The enrollment of the school is now nearly 500. 



The school offers a practical course of study designed to fit young 

 men and young women for successful farm life and it serves as a pre- 

 paratory school for the college of agriculture. It is said that nearly 

 all of its graduates not only return to the farm, but generally succeed. 

 Many of the young men are growing up into leadership in their 

 respective communities, and many more, by their quiet example, are 

 bringing a])out a more hopeful view of the countr}' and farming. 



A school on essentially the same plan but without the courses in 

 domestic science is maintained at the University of Nebraska. This 

 school in 1902-3 had an enrollment of 207 ]>oys. 



2. Separate agricultural high schools, endowed by the State, are 

 found in Wisconsin, Alal)ama, and California. In Wisconsin two such 

 schools have been esta])lished in accordance with a State law of 1901 

 authorizing any county "to appropriate money for the organization, 

 equipment, and maintenance of a school of agriculture and domestic 

 economj"," and providing that upon the approval of tlio State super- 

 intendent of public instruction the State will pay a share of "not to 

 exceed one-half the amount actually expended for instruction in such 

 school," in any county. 



The Marathon County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, 

 located at Wausau, Wis., was opened October 6, 1902. The buildings 

 and equipment provided for this school cost $20,000. The school 

 grounds cover C> acres. The course of study for boys includes soils, 

 plants, animal husbandry, rural architecture, l)lacksmithing, carpentry, 

 and mechanical drawing; for girls, cooking, laundering, sewing, flori- 

 culture, and home management and decoration. Both courses include 

 English language, literature, United States histor}^, civil govermnent, 

 and commercial arithmetic, with farm accounts. Tuition is free to 

 residents of Marathon County, and the enrollment the first of last 

 December was 62. 



The other school is located at Menomonie and is known as the Dunn 

 County School of Agriculture and Domestic Science. This school is 

 equipped with a fine brick main ])uilding, erected by the county at a 



