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high-school training may finish the course in two 

 years. In many ways, the instruction resembles that 

 given in the college as well as that in tlie high-schools. 

 The work is done in laboratories and on the farm. 

 The Scliool of Agriculture of Alfred University at 

 Alfred in Allegany County is very similar in or- 

 ganization and operation. 



The other four State schools differ from those men- 

 tioned in not being affiliated with any other educa- 

 tional work, and are special vocational schools. In 

 the order of their creation, they are located at Morris- 

 ville in Madison County, Cobleskill in Schoharie 

 County, Farmingdale on Long Island, and Delhi in 

 Delaware County. All have farm lands and stock, 

 in addition to buildings and laboratories for in- 

 struction. All are authorized to carry on tests and 

 do educational work beyond Iheir walls in the adja- 

 cent territory. With the exception of the School at 

 Canton, there has been some provision in the or- 

 ganization of the board of control for the coordina- 

 tion of the work of the school witli the other institu- 

 tions in the State giving agricultural instruction, by 

 the ex-oflficio appointment of the Dean of the State 

 College of Agriculture and the Commissioner of 

 Agriculture. In 1918 all these schools were put un- 

 der the immediate supervision of the State Depart- 

 ment of Education as a part of the secondary school 

 system of tlic State. If such special schools are to be 

 estalilished to deal with regional problems, they should 

 be located with due regard to the particular agricul- 

 tural interests they ought to serve, with the view to 



