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B. School Quarters and Equipment. a. Class Room. A 

 class room should be given this instructor for his exclusive use. 

 This should be on the ground floor, or in a high, well-lighted 

 basement, and should be such as to permit of in-door demon- 

 strations of farm animals, implements and machines. It might, 

 or might not, be in the high school building. 



b. Equipment and Appurtenances. His equipment should 

 at least include a Babcock testing outfit, seed-corn germinators, 

 special agricultural physics apparatus, individual sets of gar- 

 dening tools, hot beds and cold frames. Greenhouse space, 

 though not more than a 6-foot by 30-foot lean-to, heated from 

 the regular school-heating plant, would be an advantage; as 

 would, also, be an acre of land for garden, nursery and demon- 

 stration plots. 



c. Headquarters for the Instructor. An office should be 

 provided. This should be large enough for a library and read- 

 ing room, and fitted up for such use. There should be furnished 

 in this room as complete a file as possible of books, bulletins 

 and periodicals on farming specialties. 



C. Home Equipment and Co-operation. Practically all the 

 materials, implements and animals required for demonstra- 

 tions should be brought to the school by the students, or should 

 be examined on thrifty farms not too far distant. Everything 

 examined would thus be part and parcel of actual farming out- 

 fits : each implement, animal and building would represent some 

 farmer's judgment and money. The school would at every 

 point be dealing with definite economic propositions. 



D. Conditions of Admission and Promotion. Boys above 

 fourteen years of age should be admitted to the work of the 

 agricultural department of the high school when, upon trial, 

 they show themselves able to profit by the training, even though 

 they have not satisfactorily completed all the work of the ele- 

 mentary school. Girls of the same age might attend certain 

 classes. It would be necessary, as is pointed out at another place, 

 for those pursuing the work of the agricultural department as 

 an elective course to take all studies save the art and science 

 of agriculture in the regular high school classes. ~No student 

 should be prevented from attending the agricultural classes or 



