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The main reason for its having been found necessary to establish a 

 separate training school for teachers and instructors in these special bran- 

 ches of agriculture lies in the fact that the holdings in this country are 

 for the most part so small that they cannot support a family when worked 

 in the usual way of farming. On the other hand, by utilising the many 

 small sources of income that are available on a small farm the yield can 

 be increased so much that it will be sufficient for a frugal family. Of 

 the smaller domestic animals the school has paid special attention to swine, 

 goats, sheep, poultry and bees, but rabbits, geese, ducks and turkeys are 

 also kept. Moreover, a good deal of gardening is carried on at the school, 

 side by side with the farming work proper. 



On account of the special aims of the school the system of instruction 

 follows a different plan than in the High School of Agriculture. Whilst 

 in the latter the instruction is exclusively theoretical, practical training in 

 farm-work takes up a comparatively extensive place in the curriculum of 

 this Training School. 



The experimental work at this school is still somewhat new and im- 

 mature, but it is intended to develop this work by degress as circumstances 

 allow. Jt is likewise intended gradually to establish a considerable activity 

 in the holding of short courses of instruction. 



The State Training School for Female Teachers 

 in Domestic Science. 



The object of this school is to train teachers for the schools of house- 

 wifery and for the teaching of cookery in the elementary schools. 



The school comprises 3 sections : 



A. Training School for teachers of Domestic Science 2 years' course. 



B. Do Do for teachers in elementary 



school cookery clases i — » — 



C. Housewifery School, the pupils of which shall at 



the same time form a practice school for Section A % — » — 



In order to be admitted to Section A it is required that the applicant 

 shall have gone through a lower school of Domestic Science, similar to 

 Section C, and moreover an examination in general subjects must be 

 passed. 



In Section B the complete examination for teachers is required. 



» » C no special previous training is demanded, except that 

 the applicant must have had at least i year's practice in household work 

 and she must have a good general school education. 



The period of education for Section A will be: 



