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mated by the local authorities and approved by the Board of 

 Education; and in case of dismissal for cause, it would prob- 

 ably be best for such a dismissal to be approved by the Board. 



Ordinarily, the yearly term of service for such a supervisor 

 should be from the first day of April of any given year to the 

 first day of April of the succeeding year. Dismissal for flagrant 

 offense should, of course, be immediate and without notice. 



The salary of such a supervisor is an important consideration. 

 Experience seems to show that, in order to command the services 

 of a man having the technical training, practical experience and 

 personality called for in the above discussion of the necessary 

 qualifications of a successful supervisor, salaries ranging from 

 $1,000 upwards must be paid. 



In Ontario, where salaries for teachers and specialists of every 

 type are on the whole less than in the States, six supervisors, 

 with advisory and teaching duties, were engaged at the begin- 

 ning of a co-operative scheme between the governmental agencies 

 for agricultural betterment and the local school authorities. 

 These supervisors were paid at the outset, $1,000 per year. 



The Problem of Necessary Salaries is an Economic One at 

 Bottom. In order to attract to the work a supervisor of the 

 type herein described, it will be necessary to make the compensa- 

 tion which he is to receive as good as, or better than, that which 

 is offered to him in competing lines of work. 



By competing lines of work are meant occupations to which 

 his interests, his talents and his preparation might attract him. 

 The following positions at least lie within the possibilities of 

 the desirable graduate of an agricultural college, and therefore 

 constitute competing lines of work: agricultural management 

 work (for others or for himself) ; agricultural editorial work; 

 agricultural commercial work; agricultural government work; 

 agricultural research work ; agricultural extension work ; agri- 

 cultural teaching in colleges; agricultural teaching in high 

 schools ; agricultural teaching in agricultural schools ; agricul- 

 tural teaching in departments in regular high schools ; assistant- 

 ships where valuable experience under highly specialized super- 

 vision is to be had. 



In a very exhaustive study of the preparation and salaries of 

 teachers giving instruction in agriculture in high schools, Mr. 



