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Besides the farm at Bozeman. the agricultural college maintains several 

 experiment stations in different parts of the state, but the work of instruc- 

 tion is all carried on at Bozeman. 



The agricultural college provides, however, for holding farmers' insti- 

 tutes at the various county seats throughout the state, and bulletins are 

 sent out free, upon request, which embody practical information based on 

 the researches of the experiment station. 



The State Normal College opened at Dillon, in 1897, though one of the 

 youngest of the teachers' training schools of the country, has taken a high 

 standing almost from the first. This was the first normal school in any 

 of the northwestern states to insist on the high standard for 

 The State graduation which is now required b}^ all the better teachers' 

 Normal Col- training schools of the country. The result has been most 

 lege Takes gratif3'ing in the high rank taken b_v the graduates of this 

 High Rank, institution — including in this number the present state super- 

 intendent of public instruction, one of the state rural school 

 supervisors, a large number of county and city superintendents, and numer- 

 ous teachers in most of the best school systems of Montana and in several 

 other states. 



The Monltana State Normal Codlege has one of the most practical and 

 effective systems of training to be found anywhere in the country. Many 



normal colleges have small 

 model school in connec- 

 tion, some have the privi- 

 lege of sending their stu- 

 dents to practice in cer- 

 tain of the public schools 

 of the neighbor'hood., but 



tlie college at Dillon is 



one of only two or three 



the countrv \v*hich has 



in 



A Typical Graded School Building. 

 When high school graduates who are 



as its model and practice 

 school the whole public 

 school system of a town. 



pupils of the ^Montana State 

 Normal College have studied for one year at ]3illon, throughout the next 

 year they spend a part of each day actually teaching the regular grades in 

 the pul)lic schools of Dillon, under careful criticism of their supervisors, but 

 otherwise under just such typical conditions as they Avill find when they 

 become professional teachers. During the preceding year they have already 

 been making systematic visits in the Dillon schools, and observing care- 

 fully th-e work of expert teachers. 



To make this arrangement possible the Dillon public school board 

 chose one of the faculty of the normal college as superintendent of schools 



— In parts of Montana the sun shines more than three hundred days a year. 



