CHAPTER XV 



A PIONEER OF AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS 



real school was organized three years later. 

 In 1897 large dormitories, with spacious bed- 

 rooms, assembly rooms, reading and dining rooms, 

 were built on Farm No. 62, and a large brick school 

 building was erected, with all kinds of laboratories. 

 A matron, cook and other workers were employed 

 to take care of the physical needs of the one hundred 

 boys, and also a governor and staff of teachers in gen- 

 eral and agricultural branches. A teachers' cottage 

 was built on the same grounds, so that a little colony 

 within a colony was made. 



The students were trained in practical work includ- 

 ing the raising of crops, caring for the live-stock, 

 working in the dairy, the apiary, the hothouse, the 

 nursery and the shops. The apiary was a special fea- 

 ture. It was located in the center of the orchard, and 

 the honey which the bees produced was the finest in 

 New Jersey. In the mechanical shop a little of black- 

 smithing, plumbing, carpentry, medicine and veterinary 

 surgery were taught. This was designed to make the 

 prospective farmer equal to any need or emergency that 

 might arise on his farm. Nor was the marketing side 

 of the farmer's work neglected. In the poultry plant 



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