PROGRESS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN AGRICULTURE. 935 



cost of $16,000 for the joint use of this school iiiid th(' county teachers' 

 training school, and a frame building- for .shop work which, with the 

 grounds surrounding the school, cost $5,000. The course of study 

 covers two years and is very similar to that in the Marathon County 

 school. Tuition is free to residents of Dunn County, and the enroll- 

 ment in December last was 44. 



In Alabama a State law passed in 1896 provided for the estaljli-sh- 

 ment of agricultural schools in each of the nine Congressional districts 

 of the State, and appropriated to each of these schools $2,5(JO a year, 

 which is supplemented by local funds. As actually established, these 

 schools have been a combination of elementary and high schools, in 

 which a general education has been given with a limited amount of 

 instruction in agriculture. Farms are connected with the schools in 

 which, in some cases, simple field experiments have been conducted. 

 Over 2,000 boys and girls annually attend these schools, and several 

 hundred of them receive some instruction in agriculture. 



In California a State appropriation has been made for a })olytechnic 

 school to be located at San Luis Obispo, in which agricultural educa- 

 tion of secondary grade will be a leading feature. Plans arci being 

 made for the opening of this school at an early day. 



3. Courses in agriculture of approximately high-school grade are 

 maintained at a number of schools for negroes in the Southern States. 

 The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia has a well- 

 organized course of this character. A considerable number of students 

 in the institute have previously attended the elementary school known 

 as the A\'hittier School, which is a public county school located on the 

 grounds of the institute and furnished by it with teachers. It is a 

 practice school for the normal students in the institute and includes a 

 kindergarten and five grades. All the boys and girls in this school, 

 from the kindergarten up, have nature study, elementary studies in 

 plant life, soils, and insects, and work in a garden attached to the 

 school. 



At the institute the regidar course, which is given in a day school, 

 covers the studies ordinaril}' taught from the sixth to the ninth gi'ades, 

 inclusive, and occupies three years. Pupils who have no funds may 

 attend the night school to prepare themselves for the day school, mean- 

 while earning mone}^ by farm work during the day. Insti-uction in 

 agriculture is given in both the day and night schools, and includes 

 instruction in soils, plant protection, animal industry, dairying, drain- 

 age, and farm management. A supplementary cours(> is offered to 

 those intending to prepare themselves to be agricultural teachers or 

 farm superintendents. The institute has an excellent equipment of 

 laboratories and apparatus, farm implements, live stock, orchards, 

 and arable land. 



Agricultural courses on substantially the same plan are conducted at 

 the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Ala))ama. Among the 



