special Secondary Schools of Agriculture 119 



exclusively to such school, and having an enrollment of at least 

 twenty-five pupils . . . and an additional $200 for each 

 additional teacher employed exclusively in such schools for 

 thirty-eight weeks during the school year." 



Massachusetts gives state aid to a school established by private 

 benefaction at Northampton ; and its industrial commission is 

 trying the plan of converting certain high schools into agricul- 

 tural schools, when other schools in the same townships are 

 equipped to give instruction in the classics. An example of 

 this movement is seen in the course of study being put into 

 operation at the Montague High School, now being attended 

 by pupils from five neighboring towns. 



Support and Control 



In Alabama the " board of control " consists of the governor, 

 the superintendent of education, the commissioner of agricul- 

 ture, a secretary-treasurer, a resident member, and one other 

 member selected from the district. The amount of state support 

 has risen from $2,500 given each of the two schools originally 

 established, in 1889, to $4,500 at the present time.^ Each school 

 has an experimental farm in its vicinity in charge of a trained 

 agriculturist. In three of the schools, the experiment station 

 and the instruction in agriculture are in charge of the principal. 

 The law requires that $750 of the state appropriation shall be 

 expended on the experiment station. The printed course of 

 study shows agriculture now required in all four years. Fees 

 for tuition, library, or incidentals, range from nothing up to 

 $12, with books bought by the students at an average annual 

 cost of a little more than $7. Some schools charge a matricula- 

 tion fee. The location of these schools is shown in the Table 43. 



The bill providing for the establishment of the eleven dis- 

 trict agricultural schools of Georgia, passed in 1906,* provides 

 that " they shall be branches of the State College of Agriculture, 



^ C. J. Owen, Bulletin 220, Office of Experiment Stations, 1909. A 

 full account is here given of the history of the legislation regarding the 

 establishment, from time to time, of the other seven schools, and the 

 support given to all the district schools. 



* Georgia Statutes, Act. No. 448, p. 72, Aug. 18, 1906. 



