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cially qualified teacher who gives his exclusive attention to agricul- 

 ture. His vacation must be taken during the winter months, 

 January, February and March. He must continue his work 

 throughout the summer. Little stress is laid on land or operations 

 at the school-house. Every possible stress is laid on the utilization 

 of the land and equipment at the homes of the pupils, and it is the 

 instructor's duty during the summer to supervise work prepared 

 for by the agricultural classes, from seed time to the securing of the 

 harvest. In the cases of such departments, the State will reim- 

 burse the communities maintaining them to the extent of two- 

 thirds the salary of the agricultural instructor. 



Part-time Work in Agriculture. 



A fundamental feature of the Massachusetts plan is embodied in 

 what has been termed "part-time work in agriculture." The term 

 "part-time work" is a descriptive expression brought over from 

 current discussion of certain forms of industrial training, for use in 

 unfolding the possibilities of this new type of training in the field 

 of agricultural education. Part-time work in industrial education 

 means that the student spends part of the time required for his 

 training in the shop or manufacturing establishment, and part of 

 the time at the school building, both school and shop work, how- 

 ever, being intimately related and supplementary to each other. 

 Part-time work as applied to agricultural education means that the 

 student must spend part of the time required for his education in 

 productive farm work, preferably at home, and part of his time at 

 the school, the farm work and school study to be closely correlated 

 by the school at points selected from season to season or from year 

 to year, and to be given the highest possible educational value liy 

 competent school supervision. 



Economy, Efficiency, Adaptability. 



The part-time work plan reduces the cost of agricultural training 

 of secondary grade so as to place effective training for the farm 

 within reach of many communities which would otherwise be un- 



