34 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



to be appointed by him; Provided, however, that the course of 

 study shall include practical work on the farm, and practical 

 work in all subjects relating to housekeeping and home-making 

 by the girls." The state appropriates $25,000 to each school 

 to aid in maintenance and support. The school cannot be lo- 

 cated in any city or town of more than one thousand inhabitants, 

 nor within two miles of any city or town of more than five 

 thousand inhabitants. A complete equipment consisting of 

 school building, dormitory buildings, barn and dairy building, 

 a farm of not less than twenty-five acres of good land, and neces- 

 sary furnishing, apparatus, and farm tools, all of which must 

 be approved by the state superintendent of public instruction. 

 Provision is also made for a high-school department to be 

 maintained in each farm-life school that may not be established at 

 the same place with some existing county high school. In addi- 

 tion to the aim already indicated, it is intended for each school 

 "to conduct agricultural and farm-life demonstration and ex- 

 tension work throughout the country; to hold township and 

 district meetings for the farmers and farmers' wives in all parts 

 of the county from time to time; to co-operate with the county 

 superintendent of public instruction and public-school teachers 

 in stimulating, directing, and supervising farm-life work in the 

 public high schools and elementary schools, and in providing 

 instruction in such work for the teachers through the County 

 Teachers' Association and through special short courses of study 

 for public-school teachers; to provide, also, at said school short 

 courses of study in farm-life subjects for adult farmers and 

 their wives, and to hold at the school county meetings for fanners 

 and their wives for instruction and demonstration work from 

 time to time." Under provisions of this law two counties have 

 voted for such schools, and several more have the matter under 

 consideration and will call elections later. 



North Dakota. Three important measures in the interest of 

 agricultural education became laws in 1911. Agriculture is made 

 one of four optional subjects in examinations for first-grade 

 teachers' certificates. This will probably be amended later, mak- 



