INTRODUCTION 9 



towns, villages and consolidated rural schools, and even 

 in the elementary courses of the district rural schools. The 

 three distinctive kinds of schools in which agricultural 

 education will be most intensively and successfully 

 taught are State agricultural colleges ; large agricul- 

 tural high schools, probably one for each ten counties; 

 and consolidated rural and village schools to which the 

 pupils are taken in school wagons. The State normal 

 schools also are preparing to do especially good service 

 in fitting teachers to instruct in agriculture, and many of 

 the colleges of agriculture are establishing educational 

 departments in which to make a specialty of helping 

 prepare the large number of teachers needed. Many 

 city and town public schools, also non-public schools of 

 all grades, including universities, will also provide more 

 or less instruction relating to the farm and farm home, 

 and the aggregate of their work will be considerable. 



But the bulk of the work will be done in an articulated 

 system made up of the four classes of schools which are 

 attended mainly by pupils from the farm, most of whom 

 are to manage farms and farm homes. These are, first, 

 district rural schools, usually with one room, to which 

 the pupils walk ; and while these schools are destined to 

 give way in well-settled farm communities to the larger 

 school next named, probably a hundred thousand will 

 remain in sparsely settled and isolated communities. 

 Schools of the second class are formed by consolidating 

 six or eight one-room schools in the open country, and 

 the pupils are transported to and from the schools, for 

 the most part, in school wagons. These consolidated 

 rural schools (of which we should have 20,000 or 30,000, 

 located on small school farms among farms, and giving 

 instruction to pupils from farm homes) to distinguish 

 them from district rural schools, may properly be called 

 farm schools, as Grant Farm School, Owl Creek Farm 

 School. Schools of the third class are on large school 



