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mer. The plots should be of such size that about one-half day 

 a week during the summer would suffice for their cultivation. 

 Experience has shown that plots of this size yield crops of suffi- 

 cient value to repay the students for their work. Here school 

 control should be absolute. 



b. At Home. Parents should give the students at least 

 modest property rights at home, and exact proportionate re- 

 sponsibility and industry. Part of the garden might be given 

 or rented the first year; a pen of poultry, a pen of pigs and a 

 hive of bees, the second ; part of the orchard, the third ; and a 

 cow, the fourth. Accurate account of outgo and income should 

 be kept in all cases. 



No better test of the practicability of the teachings of the 

 school could be made. Though school control is likely to be 

 more or less modified by home control, good results should still 

 be had by proper choice of projects and harmonizing of inter- 

 ests. 



L. School Operations and Products. a. School operations 

 should be primarily for educational purposes. A bad method 

 may be followed, and beside it an approved method; the profit 

 of one may, or may not, offset the loss of the other. Both to- 

 gether make a perfect demonstration for purposes of instruction. 



The results of such demonstrations should be followed and 

 observed at proper intervals by the students. They should be 

 required to report at the school on the call of the instructor for 

 noting the demonstration work of the school in connection with 

 the instruction they have severally received. 



b. School Products. Apart from the products of the first- 

 year gardening work, all products of the school farm should be 

 disposed of for the benefit of the school. The operations of the 

 school departments should be under the direct control of the in- 

 structors who teach the subjects the departments represent. 

 Accurate profit and loss accounts for each department should 

 be kept. 



M. The Special School. A separate agricultural school 

 might be either general or special in character. If general, such 

 a school would undertake, usually by a four-years course of 

 training, to fit its pupils for at least the general lines of farm 



