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dustrial science," and those of Maine to the teaching of the 

 " natural sciences in their appHcation to mechanics, manufacture, 

 and agriculture " ; but no evidence of such teaching has been 

 found in the public schools of either state. The legislature of 

 Maine in 1907 made an appropriation of $500 a year. 



In county high schools of Nebraska " there shall be taught 

 and practiced in the ninth and tenth grades, manual training, 

 domestic science, and the elements of agriculture " ; and the 

 methods of teaching agriculture in the normal classes of the 

 eleventh and twelfth grades. They must also conduct an experi- 

 mental plat of at least 5 acres. The first high school established 

 under this law opened for the year 1909-10 at Kimball, and a 

 second has been voted. 



Oklahoma requires agriculture in the " public schools." 



The legislature of Texas in 1909 set aside $32,000 to dupli- 

 cate sums from $500 to $2,000 appropriated by school boards 

 to establish departments " for the teaching of agriculture, in- 

 cluding such courses in manual training and domestic economy 

 as are subsidiary to agriculture." Each high school applying 

 for such aid must satisfy the state board of education that it 

 has ample laboratory facilities and land, and that it will continue 

 to maintain the department after the state aid, given for one 

 year, is withdrawn. 



The Virginia legislature appropriated, in 1908, $20,000 to 

 establish " departments of agriculture, domestic economy, and 

 manual training, in at least one high school in each congressional 

 district." 



Industrial departments have been added to the school system 

 in Appomatox, Appomatox County; Burkeville, Nottoway, 

 County; Chester, Chesterfield County; Driver, Nansemond 

 County; Hampton, Elizabeth City County; Lebanon, Russell 

 County; Elk Creek, Grayson County; Middletown, Frederic 

 County ; Manasses, Prince William County ; and Bedford Springs, 

 Campbell County, supplying all ten districts. Each of these high 

 schools has been designated to receive not over $1,500 of the 

 $15,000 appropriated for normal training departments. 



In those states where this movement is much more wide- 

 spread, as in Nebraska and Missouri, the same kind of encour- 



