ii8 Agricultural Instruction in tlw Public High Schools 



Arkansas was divided by its legislature during the past year 

 1909 into four agricultural school districts, with from seventeen 

 to twenty counties in each, in each of which a school has now 

 been located. The county has been adopted as the unit by 

 Michigan,^ Minnesota, Mississippi, and Wisconsin. The first 

 four leave the establishment of such a school optional with any 

 county, while the number that may be established in Wisconsin 

 is limited. Two were permitted by the law of 1901 ; this number 

 was increased to four in 1903, and to eight in 1907. One school 

 of this type has been established in Michigan, but none has been 

 in Minnesota. Minnesota has, however, established as a branch 

 of the state university a " state agricultural high school " at 

 Crookston, which is not supported by any particular district and 

 is supposed to minister to the northwestern section of the state 

 in general. 



Other state schools established as branches under the control 

 of the state agricultural college are those at Davis, Cal., and 

 Dahlonega, Ga. Among independent state schools are the Cali- 

 fornia Polytechnic School, at San Luis Obispo, Cal. ; the College 

 of Industrial Arts (for women) at Denton, Tex.; and three 

 schools in New York, two established in connection with col- 

 leges, one at Canton, in 1906, and one at Alfred in 1908, and 

 one separate school established the latter year at Morrisville. 



New York, by an act which became a law April 22, 1910,^ 

 amended a law passed in 1908, broadening the powers of cities 

 and union free school districts, enabling them to establish 

 " schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making " as 

 well as " general industrial schools and trade schools." The 

 authorities are given full powers to provide competent teachers, 

 curricula, ground, buildings, and necessary supplies. The state 

 grants " to each city and union free school district the sum of 

 $500 for each independently organized general industrial school, 

 trade school, or a school of agriculture, mechanic arts and home 

 making, maintained therein for thirty-eight weeks during the 

 school year and employing one teacher whose work is devoted 



' But there is no prospect of the early estahlishment of such schools 

 in other counties than Menominee. 



'Laws of New York, chap. 140, art. 22, sec. 600-607. 



