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priations from year to year as the legislatures may be prevailed 

 upon to grant. Such legislative appropriations are apt to be 

 larger to these individual schools than is the share given each 

 of the several schools of a group or class, all established within 

 a short period. 



The California Polytechnic School, at San Luis Obispo, is 

 governed by a board of seven trustees, of which the governor 

 and state superintendent of public instruction are ex officio 

 members. While about half the students come from San Luis 

 Obispo County, the central and southwestern counties are rather 

 generally represented. The school was established in 1901 by 

 act of the legislature, which has liberally supported it and has 

 enabled it to add to its holdings and buildings as its growth 

 demanded. For instance in 1907, about $80,000 was voted for 

 improvements over and above the running expenses. While 

 there are no tuition fees, laboratory fees of $15 are charged for 

 all courses. Text-books and supplies cost about $15 more. 



The state university supports a secondary school of agricul- 

 ture at the University Farm at Davis, started in 1908. For its 

 purchase and equipment, the legislature appropriated $132,000 

 the previous year. 



The University of Minnesota has also established a branch 

 agricultural school some distance from its college of agricul- 

 ture. The Crookston School of Agriculture, as it is known, 

 is theoretically a high-school department of the college of agri- 

 culture, ranking with the " State Agricultural High School," 

 as it is called, which is maintained at St. Anthony Park, near 

 the college of agriculture at St. Paul. The school at Crookston 

 supposedly gives the same course as is given at the parent sec- 

 ondary school with such variations as local demands necessitate. 

 The first superintendent regarded it as the special school for 

 the Ninth Congressional District, including the Minnesota side 

 of the Red River Valley, although the school is open to resi- 

 dents of the state generally.^- The Crookston school is under 

 the control of the regents of the university as represented in 

 the management of the college of agriculture. Its budget seems 

 to be separate, and appropriations are made specifically for it 



" Wm. Robertson in Minnesota Farm Review, Sept., 1908, p. 164. 



