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be attempted where conditions for success are not reasonably 

 favorable. 



While annual State aid to the amount of $10,000 might 

 make ten departments possible, it is by no means certain that 

 it would be found advisable to establish ten departments, or 

 even five, the first year. On the other hand, if the proposed 

 department type of agricultural training should prove in actual 

 use to embody the merit which it is believed to possess, pro- 

 vision for increasing the number beyond ten could in future 

 be made. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 



In view, then, of the needs of the State as- we have found 

 them, the following three recommendations are respectfully 

 submitted : 



1. We recommend that State aid, equal to that granted any 

 town, or group of towns constituting a district, for industrial 

 schools, be continued as at present provided for in the case of 

 any town, or group of towns constituting a district, for the estab- 

 lishment and maintenance of an independent agricultural school. 

 (See chapter 505, Acts of 1906, and chapter 572, Acts of 1908.) 



2. We recommend that provision be made for the establish- 

 ment of agricultural departments in existing high schools, with 

 State aid, and with rigid definition and enforcement of voca- 

 tional standards. 



3. We recommend that the above provisions shall be con- 

 sidered to be sufficient for meeting the needs of Worcester, in 

 common with those of all other parts of the Commonwealth, 

 and, therefore, to obviate all necessity for special legislation on 

 behalf of that city. 



The above recommendations are, of course, to be interpreted 

 in the light of this entire report. 



PROPOSED LEGISLATION. 



The Board is submitting to the General Court a proposed 

 codification of legislation relating to industrial, agricultural and 

 household arts education. In that codification is included what 

 is believed to be ample legal provision for the establishment of a 

 system of agricultural schools. 



For convenient reference, a copy of the proposed codifica- 

 tion is bound herewith as an Appendix. 



