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agricultural school for the benefit of its outlying and more or 

 less scattered farming population. 



Six Agricultural Schools might be warranted. There would 

 undoubtedly be ample need of the ultimate establishment in this 

 State of five or six independent agricultural schools. 



Districts or Benefactors might build them. If the burden 

 of establishing such separate agricultural schools is too great to 

 be assumed single-handed by most towns, it is to be hoped that 

 private philanthropy, seeing the need, may be induced to supple- 

 ment limited public resources. 



A group of towns may join in a district and find the under- 

 taking quite within its grasp. In Essex County there is what 

 appears to be a well-developed movement for the immediate 

 establishment of such a school. By degrees the requisite number 

 of separate schools for meeting the needs of the training such 

 schools could so admirably give, may be secured. 



The State should help maintain; it should not help construct 

 or equip. It is plainly the established policy of the State to 

 aid in maintaining industrial and agricultural schools, but not 

 in their construction or equipment. The State must not under- 

 take more than it can carry out ; and it is already evident that 

 at no distant date the share of the State in meeting the cost of 

 even one-half of the maintenance charges of vocational education 

 will heavily tax its current resources. 



Present Need of Agricultural Departments, therefore, the 

 More Urgent. Since the demand for vocational agricultural 

 training of secondary grade is pressing, and the establishment of 

 agricultural schools is likely to be long delayed, the need for 

 agricultural departments is seen to be the more urgent. 



Fifty Departments for the Cost of Ten Schools. The cost of 

 establishing a vocational agricultural department in a regular 

 high school would be comparatively slight, not a tithe of the 

 cost of constructing and equipping an independent agricultural 

 school. Moreover, fully fifty departments could be maintained 

 for about what it would cost to maintain five large, well-equipped 

 and effective agricultural schools. The provision of agricultural 

 departments strongly commends itself, therefore, on the grounds 

 of economy. 



