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c. Winter School at the Agricultural College. Moreover, 

 the regulations should permit a student who could meet the age 

 requirement to take winter short courses, at least during his 

 third and fourth years, at the Agricultural College, with no 

 prejudice to graduation with his class ; that is to say, credit for 

 a short course at the college should be accepted as meeting in full 

 the winter-term demands of any year at the school. 



d. Schedules of the Instructor and Students. The program 

 should schedule the instructor for from sixteen to twenty periods 

 a week during the fall and spring terms, and allow the winter 

 term for his vacation. The instructor, in close connection with 

 his class instruction, should be scheduled for inspection and ad- 

 visory work at the homes of the students and among other farms 

 throughout the summer. 



e. Transfer of Students to a Special School. Should a spe- 

 cial school for such training as market gardening be established, 

 with a .one-year or a two-years course, a student desiring the 

 special training of such a school might be transferred to it at 

 the close of the second or third year of the general farming 

 course of the agricultural department of an existing high school. 



F. Support and Control. a. State Support. The salary 

 of instructors for such departments would probably vary from 

 $1,000 to $1,500 a year, and should be paid in part by the State, 

 as elsewhere proposed in this report. (See Appendix, page 100.) 



b. Local Support. Quarters and equipment, and the neces- 

 sary adjustments of curriculum for providing a well-balanced 

 course of study, inclusive of the agricultural subjects, should be 

 furnished by the local authorities. If the local school possessed 

 wood-working, forging and drawing equipment, correlation of 

 the manual arts work with farming would add decided value to 

 the work of the agricultural department. The local authorities 

 should also pay one-third of the instructor's salary. 



c. Local Committee. - - This department might be visited by 

 a special local committee interested in practical farming, and 

 the advice of such a committee might be sought in developing 

 this branch of the work of the school. 



d. State Supervision and Approval. All matters relating 

 to organization, control, location, equipment, courses of study, 



