600 EXPERIMENT STATION RECOKD. 



School were displayed at the place of meeting, and a luncheon was served by 

 the domestic science department of Winthrop College, the menu being made up 

 from vegetables grown in the school garden and articles cooked by the domestic 

 science students. 



Faunce Demonstration Farm at Sandwich, Mass. — A recent issue of the Netc 

 England Homestead contains an account of the demonstration farm now being 

 conducted at Sandwich, Mass. This farm became available in 1909, following the 

 death of Dr. R. H. Faunce, a local physician, who had bequeathed it with about 

 $20,000 of other funds to a board of four trustees for use in benefiting the people 

 of Barnstable County agriculturally. Plans for its most effective utilization were 

 considered by the trustees in active cooperation with the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, and the decision reached to operate it as a demonstration 

 center in connection with the college extension department and with Profs. 

 W. D. Hurd, W. P. Brooks, and F. C. Sears as an advisory committee. Albert 

 W. Doolittle, of the University of Maine, was selected as superintendent and 

 began operations in March, 1910. 



The estate contains about 250 acres of woodland, 8 acres of cleared land, and 

 several farm buildings. The aim has been to demonstrate, the agricultural pos- 

 sibilities of the Cape Cod region, special attention being given to fruit growing, 

 market gardening, and poultiy raising. A poultry plant has been provided, 

 gardens and orchards established, and arrangements made for a further 

 development this year. 



Much of the work has been in close association with the local schools and a 

 feature is the giving of advice to farmers in the vicinity. A two days' agri- 

 cultural and civic betterment conference was held April 7-8, the farm serving as 

 a nucleus for the gathering. 



Farm-Life Schools in North Carolina. — The legislature of North Carolina has 

 passed a law providing for a "county farm-life school" in each county com- 

 plying with certain provisions of the act. The schools can not be located in 

 any city or town of more than 1,000 inhabitants, nor within 2 miles of any 

 city or town of more than 5,000 inhabitants. The county, township, school dis- 

 trict, or all these combined must provide at least $2,500 a year for maintenance, 

 and must also furnish equipment consisting of a school building, dormitory 

 buildings for not less than 25 boys and 25 girls, a barn, a dairy building with 

 the necessary equipment, and a farm of not less than 25 acres of good land. It 

 is expected that all of the buildings will be located on the farm and these must 

 be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the state superintendent of 

 public instruction. 



The high school departments maintained under the present state law are to be 

 conducted in connection with each county farm-life school. The teachers must 

 hold the prescribed high school teachers' certificates on all required subjects 

 except Latin, Greek, and modern languages. Men must also have certificates 

 from the state board of examiners and the president of the North Carolina Col- 

 lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, attesting to satisfactory qualifications 

 for their special work, while the women must have similar certificates from 

 the state board of examiners and the president of the State Normal and Indus- 

 trial College. Provision is to be made in these schools for regular courses in 

 agriculture and home economics, and also for extension and demonstration 

 work, and short courses for adult men and women. 



A school meeting all of the requirements imposed by this law may receive 

 from the State $2,500 annually for maintenance, except that not more than 10 

 schools may be established in any one year and not more than one such school 

 in any county. 



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