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step would probably be to secure assurance from the parents 

 of those students of willingness to co-operate heartily with the 

 school in carrying out the programme of part-time work, which 

 is believed to be essential to the proper conduct of the proposed 

 type of agricultural education. 



(5) Assured of the necessary home farm co-operation, and 

 an adequate enrollment, the next natural steps would be: (a) 

 consideration of suitable land, buildings and equipment, and 

 their probable cost; (&) the availability of suitable teachers, and 

 their probable cost; and (c) the probable cost of maintenance, 

 other than the expense for officers of instruction and adminis- 

 tration. 



If a department in a high school were contemplated, the above 

 problems of (a) suitable quarters and equipment, ('&) instruction 

 and (c) miscellaneous necessary maintenance cost would be 

 much simplified. The attitude of the local high school officers 

 and teachers would previously have been ascertained when the 

 proposed course of training was formulated. 



(6) With all the needs definitely known, ways and means of 

 providing funds and election or appointment of official local 

 authorities for the establishment of the school, or department, 

 would be the next natural objects of attention. 



A. Action might be speedy and the problems simple, if the 

 town or city were to provide the school for itself. 



B. Action might be slow and the problems more difficult, if 

 the school were to be provided by a district of several cities or 

 towns, or cities and towns. 



C. All would most readily be accomplished, if a private 

 donor, or group of donors, should provide the necessary plant. 

 The Oliver Smith fund of $310,000 was a great aid in estab- 

 lishing the agricultural school at Northampton; as was the 

 Faunce bequest in establishing the Faunce Demonstration Farm 

 at Sandwich, and the resultant agricultural instruction during 

 part of the year now given high school students in that town. 



In addition to the suggested North Shore school which it is 

 thought might be built and equipped by private donors, it is 

 understood that another project, somewhat of the Sandwich type, 

 is likely to be provided for at an early date by private gift. 



