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nect or organize these observations into a 

 plan or system. This simple beginning made, 

 the work ought to grow. It may or may 

 not be necessary to organize a special class in 

 agriculture; the geography, arithmetic, reading, 

 manual-training, nature-study and other work 

 may be modified or re-directed. It is possible 

 to teach the state elementary syllabus in such a 

 way as to give a good agricultural training. 



In the high-school, the teacher should be well 

 trained in some special line of science; and if he 

 has had a course in a college of agriculture he 

 should be much better adapted to the work. 

 Here the teaching may partake more of the 

 indoor laboratory method, although it is pos- 

 sible that our insistence on formal laboratory 

 work in both schools and colleges has been car- 

 ried too far. In the high-school, a separate 

 and special class in agriculture would better be 

 organized, and this means, of course, the giving 

 up of something else by the pupil. 



In many districts the sentiment for agricul- 

 tural work in the schools will develop very 

 slowly. Usually, however, there is one person 



