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110111 iiiec County in the Upper Peninsula. The Me- 

 nominee County Agricultural School domiciles its 

 ])U])ils and gives instruction in agriculture, includ- 

 ing botany, farm crops, soils and soil fertility, hor- 

 ticulture, gardening, insect and orchard practice, 

 animal husbandry, live-stock types and breeds, stock- 

 judging, dairying, poultry, farm management, 

 manual training including farm mechanics, mechani- 

 cal drawing, carpentry, girls' handicraft, forging, and 

 farm machinery, drainage, domestic economy, in- 

 cluding cooking, serving, dietetics, sewing, laundry- 

 ing, home decoration, household chemistry, home 

 nursing and millinery, together with academic stud- 

 ies. During the winter term, short-courses are of- 

 fered for the benefit of students wlio are unable to 

 remain throughout the year, while a three-days' ses- 

 sion, or farmers' institute, in the early spring, pre- 

 sents a variety of meetings under the leadership of 

 persons prominent in agricultural practice and in- 

 struction. This school purposes to be a sort of ag- 

 ricultural college for the Upper Peninsula. A simi- 

 lar school for a time existed in Chippewa County 

 in the Upper Peninsula, but for reasons related to 

 its location primarily, failed to satisfy its supporters 

 and in the summer of 1921 was discontinued. 



An early statute of the State (1819) had provided 

 that, where, in any county "the inhabitants thereof 

 have organized and established or may hereafter or- 

 ganize and estal)lish a society for the encouragement 

 and advancement of agriculture, manufactures and 

 the mechanic arts," and where the society has raised 



