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State College may be expected to decrease. The in- 

 struction given is usually ahove the standard of the 

 secondary schools because of the maturity and wider 

 experience of the students. 



It is notable that home economics as a branch of 

 study and as a professional art has generally been 

 affiliated with training in agriculture and has de- 

 veloped hand in hand with the recognition of the nat- 

 ural humanitarian aspects of the rural work. It is, 

 of course, obvious that home economics is not more 

 closely related to the home of the farm than to the 

 home of the merchant or the manufacturer in the 

 city or to that of the mine worker. The recognition 

 of the needs of the home-keeper has been a little more 

 easy and direct on the farm and thus tlie rural situa- 

 tion is making a contribution to tlie urban. 



The demand for intermediate instruction in agri- 

 culture and home economics has given rise in New 

 York, as in other states, to a series of hybrid schools, 

 already referred to, that stand in a sense between 

 the high-schools and the State College but nearer to 

 the farmer in operation and function. These are the 

 six State schools of agriculture distributed over the 

 State in various affiliations and distinct from the 

 regular system of education. The first of these to 

 be cieatcd was the State School of Agriculture af- 

 filiated with St. Lawrence University, and adminis- 

 tered by it, at Canton in St. Lawrence County. 

 Persons prepared to enter high-school are received 

 here as at all other state scliools and given a course 

 of training of three years while students having some 



