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from tlie idea of trade schools for agriculture, and from the English 

 ideal of agricultural education, which is founded on a social cast — 

 that the farmer should be kept where he belongs. The Democracies of 

 the world must see that social and economic conditions are attractive 

 to men on the land. '' The farmer's part in society," he said, " is not 

 a mud-cell on which other ranges of activity are built, but it is a 

 collateral, requiring equal education with other branches of human 

 activity." 



What America is doing for Agricultural Instruction of Secondary 



Grade. 



Special agricultural schools, apart from the State colleges, are main- 

 tained wholly or in part by State funds in at least sixteen States. The 

 schools vary in the nature of w-ork, equipment, income, and size of 

 district they serve. They are intended for boys of fourteen to eighteen 

 years of age. The area served by the agricultural schools in the various 

 States varies from a single county to an area serving a third of a 

 State. 



High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 (Population of Salt Lake City, ll.S,000. Population of tlie State of Utah, 420.000. 



In Massachusetts, Michigan and Missouri, North Dakota, and Wis- 

 consin, the county is the unit. In Alabama, there is an agricultural 

 school in each of the nine Congressional districts. In California, 

 Colorado, Minnesota, l^ebraska, Sfew York, Pennsylvania, and Ver- 

 mont, there are agricultural schools serving large indeterminate areas 



In addition to these special agricultural schools, many of the agri- 

 cultural colleges maintain schools of agriculture. Thus at Colorado, 

 Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio. Minnesota agricultural colleges there 

 are strong secondary schools of agriculture for boys of high school 

 age, and for those who have been unable to reach the entrance require- 

 ments for the regular college courses. 



Secondary agricultural teaching in the United States is in the 

 melting pot. From what I have seen I have no doubt that an efficient 

 and practical system of education will be evolved. 



