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to the requirements of this act, iii aid of vocational 

 education, including agriculture, home economics and 

 the manual arts. Michigan promptly accepted the 

 terms of the Smith-Hughes Law. The legislature 

 of 1919 created the State Board of Control of Voca- 

 tional Education, which in turn appointed super- 

 visors and adopted a plan of work and procedure. 

 The federal aid is extended only to schools uelow 

 college grade and on condition that an equivalent 

 expenditure is incurred by State or local administra- 

 tions. The board alone cooperates with the schools 

 that operate under the law, and, under the Michigan 

 plan, shares equally with the local school districts, 

 the State's moiety of the contribution for such vo- 

 cational education. In 1920 fifty-nine schools, three 

 in the Upper Peninsula, received federal aid under 

 the Smith-Hughes Law in connection with agricul- 

 tural education. These were all public high-schools, 

 with the exception of the Menominee County Agri- 

 cultural School. Pupils are required to be above the 

 age of fourteen years and to have pursued, or to in- 

 tend to pursue, agricvdture as a vocation. There 

 were approximately two thousand such pupils in these 

 schools in 1920, taking work in agriculture. The 

 local school districts provide buildings and equip- 

 ment. There must be suitable laboratory facilities 

 and outdoor field work, conducted under instructors 

 of approved qualifications. The course of study, cov- 

 ering four years, includes such subjects as plant life, 

 farm carpentry and mechanical drawing, farm crops 

 and soils, horticulture, animal husbandry, farm man- 



