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and home economics, to the extent of two-thirds the amount 

 expended by the school, but not to exceed $2,500 for each school. 

 This aid was restricted to ten high or consolidated schools the 

 first year, and to the same number of additional schools each 

 succeeding two years. The school must have ample facilities, 

 instructors qualified to teach the industrial subjects, and 5 acres 

 of land. The entire quota was filled the first year, by ten high 

 schools, namely : Albert Lea, Alexandria, Canby, Cokato, Glen- 

 coe, Hinckley, Mcintosh, Red Wing, and Wells, and one con- 

 solidated graded school at Lewiston. 



Mississippi has a law, passed in 1908, and reenacted in 1910 

 in form to meet constitutional objections, "An Act to provide 

 for the establishment and equipment of county agricultural high 

 schools and to provide for the equipment and maintenance of 

 same." It provides that " instruction shall be given in high 

 school branches, theoretical and practical agriculture, domestic 

 science, and in such other branches as the board . . . may 

 make a part of the curriculum, subject to review and correction 

 by the state board of education." It will be seen that the degree 

 to which these schools are purely agricultural depends somewhat 

 upon the nature of the curriculum, one school including Latin 

 and Greek in its projected course of study. Every school, how- 

 ever, must have 40 acres of land and suitable buildings, includ- 

 ing dormitory accommodations for 40 students, before receiving 

 the $1,500 aid from the state. The law is quoted more fully 

 in Chapter VI. 



The state of Virginia in its agricultural instruction combines 

 the plan used in Michigan, Nebraska, and New York, of having 

 a state-wide system of high-school normal training classes, with 

 the Wisconsin plan of having a county normal training class 

 housed in the building used by the agricultural school, while the 

 geographical unit is that used by the Alabama and Georgia 

 agricultural schools. The catalogues and letterheads of several 

 of these schools variously bear the legend of " training school," 



" high school," " agricultural high school," and the th 



congressional district agricultural school," showing the lack of 

 official sanction of any particular title. The state superintendent 

 reports that there is "no legal designation for agricultural 



