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maintenance; the teacher of agriculture must be satisfactory to 

 the state department of education. To aid the department of 

 agriculture and home economics of these schools a course of 

 study, including state requirements for recognition, equipment, 

 courses of study and practicums, has been issued by the state 

 department of education (32). 



Maine. State aid is given to high schools and incorporated 

 academies maintaining courses in agriculture. 



Maryland. State aid, not to exceed $2,500 each, is extended 

 for the encouragement of high schools meeting the requirements 

 set forth by the state board of education. Among these re- 

 quirements is provision for manual-training and domestic-science 

 courses, and also a commercial or agricultural course, as may 

 be determined by the board of county commissioners. In the 

 suggested course of agriculture for high schools two recitations 

 of forty minutes each and one double laboratory period of eighty 

 minutes are devoted to this subject each week for four years. 

 The course is so arranged that a teacher of agriculture may 

 teach in more than one high school, giving not less than two- 

 fifths of his time to schools of the first group, and to no more 

 than four schools of the second group. The sum of $400 is 

 available to high schools of each group offering such instruction 

 (School Code and By-Laws of the Maryland State Board of 

 Education). 



Massachusetts. An act of the legislature of 1911 provides 

 for agricultural departments in rural high schools. Such de- 

 partments must devote their entire time to the theory and 

 practice in agriculture. This work may be elected by pupils in 

 the school. The pupils are to take all their studies except the 

 training in practical farming in the regular classes of the 

 school. The work is to be given by a special instructor who 

 is to devote his entire time to the theory and practice of farming. 

 He will be expected to supervise certain projects on the farm 

 conducted by pupils, such as gardening, poultry-keeping, orchard- 

 ing, small animal husbandry, etc., and to give in the classroom 



