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III. Legislation covering the following points : 



(a) Provision of a fund for the payment of a bonus 

 to every grammar school teacher who, during the year 

 1913 or any succeeding year, shall, in the judgment of 

 the proper supervising officers, successfully teach voca- 



• tional agriculture. 



(b) Beginning in 1914 candidates for the county 

 teacher's certificate to take examinations in nature- 

 study and agriculture. 



(c) Provide for the division, not later than 1914, 

 of all counties into districts for the supervision of 

 vocational education, including agriculture, in the 

 grammar grades. These districts should contain not 

 more than fifty schools, preferably less. 



High Schools. 



I. Provision for state aid to any free high school establishing 

 a department of agriculture, home economics and farm 

 mechanics, with courses extending over one or more years, 

 $250 to be given toward the salary of the first special 

 teacher employed for one of these subjects and $150 to- 

 ward the salary of each additional special teacher em- 

 ployed. , 

 II. Provision for state aid to any county high school estab- 

 lishing a department of agriculture, home economics and 

 farm mechanics, with courses extending over two or more 

 years, $500 to be given toward the salary of the first special 

 teacher employed for one of these subjects and $300 to- 

 ward the salary of each additional special teacher em- 

 ployed. 

 III. Provision of $10.00 per school per annum for the visitation, 

 by a member of the Division of Agricultural Education 

 of the College of Agriculture, of each school establishing 

 and conducting a department of agriculture, home econom- 

 ics and farm mechanics, for which state aid is asked, pro- 

 viding that a report on each school is filed by said visitor 

 with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 



— E. B. B. 



