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nect or organize these observations into a 

 plan or system. This simple beginning made, 

 the work ought to grow. It may or may 

 not be necessary to organize a special class In 

 agriculture; the geography, arithmetic, reading, 

 manual-training, nature-study and other work 

 may be modified or re-directed. It Is possible 

 to teach the state elementary syllabus In such a 

 way as to give a good agricultural training. 



In the high-school, the teacher should be well 

 trained In some special line of science; and if he 

 has had a course in a college of agriculture he 

 should be much better adapted to the work. 

 Here the teaching may partake more of the 

 indoor laboratory method, although It Is pos- 

 sible that our Insistence on formal laboratory 

 work in both schools and colleges has been car- 

 ried too far. In the high-school, a separate 

 and special class in agriculture would better be 

 organized, and this means, of course, the giving 

 up of something else by the pupil. ^ 



In many districts the sentiment for agricul- 

 tural work in the schools, will develop very 

 slowly. Usually, however, there is one person 



