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give evidence that after the state aid is withdrawn the district 

 will continue to maintain the department for instruction in agri- 

 culture out of its own funds.** 



Section 6 of the same Act says : 



The sum of thirty-two thousand dollars ($32,000) or such 

 part thereof as is necessary is hereby appropriated out of any 

 money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the 

 year ending August 31, 1910, and thirty-two thousand dollars 

 ($32,000) or such part thereof as is necessary for the year 

 ending August 31, 191 1, for the purpose of carrying out the 

 provisions of article 5 of this act. 



Vermont has the following indefinite provision : " . . . and 

 instruction may be given in political, social, moral, and industrial 

 sciences . . . ,"^ although no high school yet teaches any- 

 thing relating to the farming industry. However, the principal 

 of Vermont Academy, at Saxton's River, conducted a small but 

 enthusiastic class in agriculture in the year 1906-1907. 



Virginia has among other " requirements necessary to receive 

 aid from the state high school fund " the following: " The course 

 of study shall conform to the outline given herewith," which 

 provides for elementary agriculture and lessons in botany and 

 zoology for three periods a week through the second year, ele- 

 ments of physics and elementary agriculture or elementary chem- 

 istry and elementary agriculture for three periods a week through 

 the third year, and the elements of chemistry or the science of 

 agriculture for three periods a week through the fourth year.^° 



The Virginia legislature has appropriated " for high schools 

 to be expended as per act creating public high schools, one hun- 

 dred thousand dollars, provided that so much of the five hundred 

 and seventy-five thousand dollars herein provided, for the sup- 

 port of the public and high schools as may be necessary, not to 

 exceed twenty thousand dollars, shall be devoted to the establish- 

 ment of departments of agriculture, domestic economy, and 

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



" School Laws of Texas, Sec. 12, p. 8. Acts of 31st Legislature, Chap 

 113, Sec. 5. 



' General Laws of the State of Vem^cnt Relating to Public Instruction, 

 1907, Sec. 1016. 



'■" Standard of Requirements for High Schools [Virginia], Board of 

 Education, 1906. 



