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The importance of Sandwich as a center is expected to be greatly 

 enhanced by the completion of the new Cape Cod Canal. 



The people of the community, particularly the school boys, 

 have responded to the influence of the Faunce Demonstration 

 Farm. The superintendent of the farm, as this report is being 

 written, is instructing special classes of high school students 

 who are desirous of the training this farm and its manager are 

 prepared to provide. 



(6) " The sixth group/' discussion of which Secretary Ells- 

 worth deferred until the last, because of its magnitude, is that 

 which, he says, " for present purposes may be called the Boston 

 market. Fifteen cities and about as many large towns may be 

 included in this group. It has its center at Faneuil Hall, and 

 radiates for 10 miles north, south and west. Within the circum- 

 ference of this territory there dwell more than one-third of all 

 the people in the Commonwealth. Well may Boston be termed 

 ' the Hub ; ' it is truly the center of this enormous market." 



The Suburbs of Boston. It is well known that the green- 

 house and market-garden interests in the vicinity of Boston have 

 reached enormous development, and it has been suggested that 

 a special school for training producers of market-garden and 

 greenhouse crops might well be established in one of the suburbs 

 of this city. 



Such a school might materially differ in its course of study 

 from the other agricultural schools, and form a very important 

 part of a system of agricultural education for the State. Stu- 

 dents who desired to specialize in these branches of agricultural 

 production might, at the end of the first two or three years in 

 any of the other agricultural schools or agricultural departments, 

 possible locations for which are hereafter discussed, be trans- 

 ferred to this school for a one-year or two-years finishing course ; 

 that is to say, such a school might well be organized for provid- 

 ing a short course of highly specialized instruction for boys of 

 sixteen or more years of age. 



2. Possible Locations for Agricultural Departments in Exist- 

 ing High Schools. Local conditions should be strong factors 

 in determining whether or not the establishment of an agricul- 

 tural department would be advisable at any given point. 



There is throughout the State a very general excellence of 



