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transportation facilities. When, for example, possible locations 

 for the proposed Massachusetts College centers were being se- 

 lected, it was found that 30 such centers could be so placed that 

 92 per cent, of the school population of the State would live 

 within the range of a five-cent fare by steam or trolley from 

 these centers, and that six per cent, more would live within the 

 range of a ten-cent fare. Transportation facilities are likely to 

 be found favorable at most points which might be suggested. 



In choosing locations for agricultural departments in high 

 schools, some account should undoubtedly be taken of the tend- 

 ency of agriculture to develop more strongly with reference to 

 local market demands than with reference to any local peculiar- 

 ities of soil or traditional production, a tendency which has 

 been referred to by Secretary Ellsworth. Strong or distinctive 

 home-market centers for agricultural products might well, as in 

 the cases of the agricultural schools, furnish the most desirable 

 locations for agricultural departments. 



Following are centers but not always market centers 

 which have been suggested as likely to be found desirable for 

 the location of vocational agricultural departments in existing 

 high schools : 



(1) Great Barrington might be found desirable as a center, 

 so far as the farming interests and transportation facilities are 

 concerned. Farmers conversant with Great Barrington condi- 

 tions have estimated that an annual enrollment of 20 farm boys 

 could be assured, if such a department should be established, 

 with an ultimate enrollment of probably not fewer than 50. 

 The surrounding towns have no manufacturing, but contain 

 many estates of summer residents and many typical western 

 Massachusetts farms. These towns now send a number of tui- 

 tion students to the Great Barrington high school. 



An agricultural department at this center might be found very 

 serviceable, therefore, to a considerable surrounding territory, 

 as well as to Great Barrington itself. Instances are given of 

 students, living at home, but attending school in Pittsfield 

 from points as far south as Stockbridge. The distance from 

 Stockbridge to Pittsfield is of course much greater than the 

 distance from Stockbridge to Great Barrington. It has been 



