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the objects of the school by admitting the agricultural instructor 

 or supervisor and his students to their premises, for the exam- 

 ination of animals, machines and all out-door and in-door opera- 

 tions, and by explanation and discussion of their methods of 

 accounting and their improved farming processes. At another 

 point in this discussion the possible fields of usefulness to a 

 community of such an instructor or supervisor are pointed out. 

 Effective service on the part of the supervisor in the field of 

 helpful suggestion there mentioned could be rendered only 

 where there was a cordial attitude of co-operation on the part 

 of the people in the community who were desirous of either 

 the improvement of rural conditions in general or the better- 

 ment of their own farms. 



2. The School and its Supervisor. Whether part-time work 

 in agriculture were conducted under the auspices of a separate 

 agricultural school or of a separate department in a regular 

 high school, it is believed that it would require the services of 

 a trained and experienced agriculturist, who should devote his 

 entire time to teaching the principles and the best methods of 

 farming. It is believed, further, that largely through this in- 

 structor or supervisor of agriculture the school should: (1) 

 choose the projects to be undertaken by the boy; (2) direct his 

 work in the discharge of his projects; and (3) put him in pos- 

 session of the principles that relate to them. 



(1) In the selection of the projects to be undertaken by the 

 boy, the instructor should take into consideration : 



A. What farming enterprises are profitable, or could be made so, in the 



neighborhood. 

 . The age of the boy. 



C. The kinds of projects that would be feasible on the home farm. 



D. The boy's routine farm work at home. 



E. The assistance that the father could afford to give in materials and 



equipment. 



F. The suitability of the project to the season of the year. 



G. The projects and portions of projects that could best be carried out 



at the school, and the best time on the program of the year for 

 these parts of the work to be done. 



The problem of the building of a poultry house by the boy 

 would be one of the possible minor projects, as before shown, 

 when the larger project of keeping a pen of poultry was under 



