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from outside their respective counties. The half-tone illustrations 

 show classes of students removing stumps with dynamite; raising 

 the form for and constructing a concrete silo; operating the level; 

 pipe fitting; forging; carpentering; road constructing with a 

 road machine and studying various types of gasolene engines. 

 The illustrations show the boys in overalls and evidently active 

 participants in the various occupations. 



Each county school has some land, but repeatedly it is stated 

 that this land is used for experimental and demonstration purposes. 

 Students evidently use school time for study and for observation, 

 dependence being placed upon the ability of the students on grad- 

 uation to apply the instruction they have received in school for 

 their own benefit at home. It is found that the county agricultural 

 schools serve a class of people the high schools fail to reach; that 

 their value has been clearly and unquestionably demonstrated. 

 The Wisconsin Commission on Plans for the Extension of Industrial 

 and Agricultural Education, as a result of its observations, rec- 

 ommended that the limit of State aid for each be raised fifty per 

 cent. The trade school, or distinctly vocational character of the 

 instruction given by the Wisconsin county agricultural schools, 

 was particularly emphasized by the relationship of these schools 

 to the University which was proposed by the Commission just 

 mentioned. The Commission recommended that the University 

 of W^isconsin establish in the College of Agriculture a "continua- 

 tion course" for graduates of county agricultural schools. Thus 

 it is seen that the kind of training here considered is sharply differ- 

 entiated as to field, content and methods from the training of the 

 ordinary high or college preparatory school on the one hand, and 

 on the other hand from the training for professional service pro- 

 vided in the regular classes of the college of agriculture. 



Agricultural Schools at Colleges. 



There is a great variety of separate schools. These may be 

 divided roughly into two classes — those located at the State 

 Agricultural Colleges and those not so located. Where located at 

 the colleges, these schools are not preparatory departments to 



