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Sec. 4. Each of said schools shall receive state aid equal to 

 two-thirds (^) of the amount actually expended upon such 

 departments and vouched for, but in no case to exceed two 

 thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per year. Not more than 

 ten schools shall be aided the first year nor more than ten added 

 to the list every two years thereafter. The special aid provided 

 under this act shall be in lieu of all other aid for industrial 

 training granted by the state to schools operating hereunder. 



Secs. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, provide a way for rural schools 

 to consolidate or to attach themselves to a graded or state high 

 school maintaining such an industrial department, such school 

 then being known as a " central school." 



The Nebraska law approved April 5, 1907, provides that in 

 county high schools " there shall be taught and practiced in the 

 ninth and tenth grades, manual training, domestic science, and 

 the elements of agriculture and in the eleventh and twelfth grades 

 normal training and the theory and practice of agriculture for 

 the purpose of teaching and practice. The board is hereby au- 

 thorized to purchase the necessary apparatus and materials for 

 this purpose, together with a tract of land not less than 5 acres, 

 conveniently situated to said county school for actual practice 

 by all the students or a part of the students under the direction 

 of a competent instructor for experimentation in all forms of 

 agriculture."^ 



The county board of commissioner supervisors constitutes the 

 board of trustees of such county high schools, and tuition is 

 free to all pupils residing in the county.*' 



In Oklahoma the legislation which became effective May 20, 

 1908, is the most elaborate yet enacted for the promotion of agri- 

 cultural instruction. While covering all fields of educational 

 activity in the state, the nearest approach to a mention of agri- 

 culture in the general high school is the phrase " the public 

 schools." 



Pennsylvania.' — Every high school receiving aid from the 

 state " shall employ for said high school at least one teacher 

 legally certified to teach . . . chemistry, including chem- 



' School Laws of Nebraska (Elliott Digest), 1907, p. 43, (punctuated 

 as there printed). 



'Chap. 122, April 5, 1907. 



'The Common School Laws of Pennsylvania, 1907, Sec. CXII, p. 54. 



