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5. Acreage and Variety of Soil. The land should be typi- 

 cal of the surrounding region, and permit of demonstration of 

 the best methods of farming for that section of the State. If 

 not a special school, devoted, for example, to market gardening, 

 it should have a sufficient acreage and variety of land for land- 

 scape gardening, forestry and general farm tillage, as well as for 

 gardening and nursery plots. 



c. Buildings. The buildings should be especially designed 

 and grouped for the peculiar work of the school. Such build- 

 ings as barns and poultry houses should be of the kind any 

 farmer with a moderate amount of capital would wish to erect 

 as parts of a convenient, sanitary and practical plant. 



d. Live Stock. Quarters for all kinds of live stock suited 

 to the locality should be provided. The school might, or might 

 not, own the live stock dealt with in class demonstrations. The 

 best obtainable specimens of the breeds studied should be seen 

 and handled, and proper accommodations for keeping them 

 should make it easy to borrow or hire the animals when needed. 

 When not filled with live stock, these quarters would still be 

 on view as models of their several kinds for housing and car- 

 ing for the various types of farm animals. 



e. Other Equipment. The equipment should be modern 

 and varied, but every piece should be applicable to some proj- 

 ect in practical farming. Submitted to the test of practical 

 farming, much, for example, of the equipment usually found 

 in high school science laboratories would be omitted and other 

 equipment would be selected. A museum for collecting out-of- 

 date farm implements and machines would serve a most ex- 

 cellent informational purpose ; but the main object should be to 

 provide the best models of implements and machines for pres- 

 ent economic use. 



B. Support and Control. The cost of such schools is large, 

 generally too large to be provided by a single community. In 

 good schools the initial cost of the plant, including adequate land, 

 buildings and equipment, and of providing for from 100 to 150 

 students, has been from $40,000 upward. The annual mainte- 

 nance cost has varied from $8,000 upward. In some cases the 

 cost has been less than, in others it has considerably exceeded, the 

 figures here named for both plant and maintenance. 



