SCHOOLS AND FARMING 



school. The state should not make it nec- 

 essary for him to send them away from 

 home for the elements of such education. 

 It follows that all public schools should be 

 open to education by means of agriculture 

 on the same terms that they are open to 

 education by other means. New York has 

 the basis for such a development in the act 

 of 1908 for the encouraging of industrial 

 and trade schools. I am convinced that 

 this act marks a clear advance in industrial 

 education in this country. This law recog- 

 nizes industrial education as a part of 

 the proper educational work of the state; 

 and the principle that the initiative should 

 lie with the people, and the maintenance be 

 cooperative between the locality and the 

 state. It provides that any public school 

 that establishes such work and maintains 

 it for a year shall receive $500 from the 

 state for one teacher so employed and $200 

 for additional teachers. It limits such in- 

 struction to those who have taken the ele- 

 mentary school course. It provides for an 

 advisory board to confer with the school 

 officers in respect to the work. Now, train- 

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