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should be trained to high ideals of every day living and to high efficiency 

 in their respective vocations (123, p. n). 



At the annual meetings of boards of agriculture of several 

 states agricultural education receives attention, special addresses 

 being given on this subject and published in the proceedings 

 (124, 125, 126, 127). 



Special bulletins or leaflets are published and distributed 

 by a few state offices of agriculture. The Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture has issued from time to time 

 leaflets on elementary agriculture and nature-study. The New 

 York State Department of Agriculture publishes annual reports 

 of the state Experiment Station at Cornell University. These 

 contain reprints of various nature-study, rural school, and 

 teachers' leaflets sent out from Cornell University, and also 

 accounts of the extension work in agriculture and nature- 

 study conducted by the university among the schools of the 

 state. The Missouri State Board has recently published 

 a bulletin on elementary agriculture meant to be used "only 

 as the first year's work," and "written on the supposition that 

 neither teacher nor pupils know much of scientific agriculture" 

 (128). 



About half of the states hold annual state fairs under 

 the management of the state offices of agriculture. In nearly 

 all, there is a department of education in which prizes are 

 offered for school exhibits. Some give special encouragement 

 to agricultural subjects. The prizes amount to a few dollars in 

 some fairs and to several hundred in others. 



The Nebraska State Fair offered "to the Nebraska boy 

 under eighteen years of age, growing the largest yield of corn 

 from one acre of ground, in the year 1910, $50; second, $25; 

 third, $20; fourth, $15; fifth, $10; and to the sixth, seventh, 

 eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh, $5 each." 



The South Dakota State Fair made the boys' and girls' 

 contests a special feature at its recent meeting. Three hundred 

 and fifty dollars were offered in cash prizes, the largest first 



