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nitely shown that this waste is necessary to prevent greater waste in edu- 

 cational production. This has not yet been shown and until proof is 

 given one way or another the school will always work under the sus- 

 picion of citizens that it is not using its opportunities in a fruitful way. 

 If the boys really wish to know agriculture they will not object to more 

 farm work. It is not expected that this extra work should take the 

 place of the required farm experience. Even with the largest farm 

 production, life at the school for the six hours a day would not approxi- 

 mate the life on an ordinary farm. It is this life with its variety of oc- 

 cupations and duties, its difficulties and limitations, that the boy wants in 

 his actual farm experience. 



The moot important time of the year in agriculture is from March to 

 November. During three of these months the mid-summer months 

 the boys are not in school. Some of them are on farms, some are 

 doing other work or no work. In order that the school should have 

 the opportunity to teach the boys while they are getting practical expe- 

 rience in the time when that experience can best be gained, a course 

 extending through the summer months would be most beneficial, if prac- 

 tical. Carried a point further, a school year extending from March 

 to November, thus corresponding with the agricultural year, would per- 

 mit the school to take the boys through an entire crop season. It would 

 permit of carrying out the gardening and fruit projects completely. It 

 would be a long step toward putting the farm on a paying basis. 



Two important objections will be made. 



1. Boys cannot be kept in school during the summer. Many of 

 them must or will go out to work. 



2. What will be done with the boys in the winter months? 



The first objection will be sound for many boys. But for others 

 those who do not have to work and those who can be made to see 

 the advantage of staying in school the plan will work. The course 

 could be made very valuable to the boys, and they could be shown the 

 ultimate benefit of staying in school through the summer. A fairly 

 large enrollment might be built up. 



The second objection has in mind the boys who would be out ot 

 school without work in the winter months. This could be overcome by 

 filling this period in with regular school work. A system whereby part 

 of the boys at a time could take a week's vacation in the summer would 

 permit this. Such an all-the-y ear-round school would tend to raise the 

 summer enrollment, for it would lessen the total length of the course by 

 one year. 



One more consideration should enter into this problem of working 

 the farm to more nearly its productive capacity. It is supposedly a 

 model farm, a demonstration farm for the county. Yet if the farmer 



