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production practiced in the surrounding territory. If special, 

 a separate agricultural school might limit the length of its 

 course to one or two years, and confine its instruction to a single 

 specialized line of production, such as market gardening. Such 

 a special school might receive students after they had spent two 

 or more years in an agricultural school devoted to preparation 

 for general farming; and it might also admit older students 

 without previous preparation in a general school, if they were 

 able to profit from the training offered. 



N. More Advanced Education. If on graduation a student 

 should desire to enter the Agricultural College, one or two years 

 of further study at his local high school should enable him to 

 meet the conventional college entrance requirements. He might 

 have to enter conditioned in one year of French or German ; but 

 a condition in such a subject could be easily removed, since credit 

 should be given for his extensive agricultural training. 



(3) General Observations. That a thoroughly vocational 

 education in agriculture can be given in the separate agricul- 

 tural school, where properly equipped, has been sufficiently 

 demonstrated by experience to be beyond the range of uncer- 

 tainty. As noted before, however, such a school in this State 

 should be so situated as to be easily accessible to 100 or more 

 pupils; its plant would be expensive and its maintenance cost 

 by no means small. 



The separate agricultural school, as herein discussed, might 

 be a local school, readily accessible to a considerable farming 

 population, whose pupils lived at home and secured a part of 

 their practical training through the directed performance of 

 their duties on the home place ; or it might be a boarding school 

 for pupils gathered from a considerable area. 



Such a local school is impracticable in agricultural areas inter- 

 sected by mountains and pasture lands, where but a compara- 

 tively small number of suitable pupils are within daily travelling 

 distance of a central point. Many communities of this type exist 

 in Massachusetts. 



Many towns or groups of towns, so situated, are able to main- 

 tain only moderate-sized high schools, and have within easy 

 reach only a limited number of students. The taxable valuation 



