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The kitchen-garden classes had been continued 

 in all the cities in which they had ijreviously been 

 introduced, and new classes had been established 

 in Orange, Rochester, Yonkers, St. Albans, Cedar 

 Rapids, Germantown, Chestnut Hill, and Cleve- 

 land. A normal class had been started, and was 

 meeting with gratifying success. A graduate of 

 the normal class had attempted an extension of 

 the system so that it would suit boys as well as 

 girls. While this extension had not been fully 

 developed, yet progress was reported. The third 

 report, issued in 1883, told of a successful but un- 

 eventful year. The fourth report, however, marks 

 a significant stage in the association's develop- 



general, for older pupils, and for boys, be added 

 to the present work ; fourth, other systems having 

 been developed, it seems advisable to incorporate 

 them with our own." 



In this dissolution the old was not displaced 

 entirely by the new, but it was relegated to a 

 subordinate position. A standing committee on 

 kitchen-garden was provided for, and to it the 

 direction of that work was confided. The result 

 of the re-organization was the Industrial educa- 

 tion association. In April, 1885, its first annual 

 report was published ; and its whole tenor indi- 

 cates that a greatly enlarged work had been un- 

 dertaken. In this report it is stated that the 



ment. The board of managers had begun to feel 

 that their present work was too limited, that their 

 fundamental principle admitted of a wider appli- 

 cation than it was receiving. This feeling found 

 expression in a resolution passed March 21, 1884, 

 which read as follows : " Resolved, that at the 

 next regular meeting of the association the sub- 

 ject of the dissolving of The kitchen-garden asso- 

 ciation, with a view of re-organizing under a dif- 

 ferent name and upon a broader basis, be pre- 

 sented, and action taken thereon. It is proposed 

 to make this change, because, first, the title 

 ' Kitchen-garden association ' is too limited in its 

 scope ; second, experience has proved that a more 

 advanced work in addition is essential ; third, it 

 is desirable that industrial training for schools in 



association was organized, first, to obtain and dis- 

 seminate information ujjon industrial education,, 

 and to stimulate public opinion in its favor ; sec- 

 ond, to invite co-operation between existing or- 

 ganizations engaged in any form of industrial 

 training ; third, to train women and girls in do- 

 mestic economy, and to promote the training of 

 both sexes in such industries as shall enable those 

 trained to become self-supporting ; fourth, to study 

 and devise methods and systems of industrial 

 training, and secure their introduction into schools ; 

 also, when expedient, to form special classes and 

 schools for such instruction ; fifth, to provide in- 

 structors for schools and classes, and, if neces- 

 sary, to train teachers for this work. 



The work of the year, as might have ^been ex- 



