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a iiuihIht of other States. Thus Louisiana, for example, has recently 

 made provision for a chair of agricultural education with Prof. V. L. 

 Roy, formerly parish superintendent of Avoyelles Parish, as the first 

 incumbent. One-third of his salary is assumed by the State Board 

 (ii Agriculture, one-third by the State Department of Education, and 

 the remainder by the State university. He is expected to" work 

 under the coordinate direction of these three authorities in bringing 

 agricultural instruction into the secondar}- and elementar}' schools 

 of the State. 



As a means of encouraging the establishment of agricultural 

 courses in high schools, a S3'stem of recognition of certain high schools 

 for State aid has also been established. Each of these schools re- 

 ceives $500 annually from the State treasury on condition of meet- 

 ing certain specified recpiirements concerning laboratory equipment, 

 the course of study, and the selection of a competent man to give the 

 instruction in agriculture. Twenty-five schools have already applied 

 for such recognition, and probably at least twelve, properh^ dis- 

 tributed over the State, will ultimately receive it. Last year the 

 State superintendent held a number of summer normal courses for 

 the benefit of new teachers of agriculture, and at least five such 

 courses will be given this year. 



A chair of rural education has also been established in the Univer- 

 sity of ^Missouri, with Prof. R. H. Emberson in charge. Professor 

 Emberson's time will be given entirely to the rural school problem, 

 and his business will be to bring the college of agriculture and the 

 rural school into close touch and S3'mpathy, to inti-oduce agriculture 

 into the curriculum, to assist teachers in making this work successful, 

 and to interest the boys of the school in corn growing, corn judging, 

 live-stock judging, and such other subjects as may be found feasible. 

 His work will all be in the field. 



Within a few weeks Minnesota has adopted a definite policy for the 

 encouragement of vocational teaching in its public schools. A bill 

 passed by the legislature appropriates $25,000 a year for the next two 

 years to encourage the establishment of agricultural departments in 

 State high schools and graded or consolidated rural schools. These 

 agricultural departments must be provided with trained teachers of 

 agriculture, maiuuil training, and domestic science, and with not less 

 than 5 acres of land foi- educational and experimental purposes. 

 Schools which have met these requirements (not to exceed one in a 

 county nor ten in the State in any one year), and have been desig- 

 nated by the State High School Board to receive State aid. will get 

 an amount equal to two-thirds of their actual expenditures upon 

 departments of agriculture, ])rovi<led that State aid shall not exceed 

 $2,500 a year for any one school. 



Still another example tending in the same general direction is fur- 

 nished bv the State of Texas, whose legislature has voted $82,000 to 



