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including animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, poultry hus- 

 bandry, soils, farm crops, vegetable gardening, fruit growing, 

 plant diseases, entomology, farm management and farm 

 machinery. In addition he should have specialised in some 

 phase of technical agriculture. He should be able to connect 

 the school work with the home work of the pupil on the farm 

 and possess skill in the use of carpentering tools and in farm 

 repair work. The local board of education or school committee is 

 obliged to appoint an advisory board in the district to give advice 

 on local farm conditions, to help to organise the " farm enter- 

 prise " work described below and to promote the success of the 

 department by encouraging visits to their farms or by delivering 

 practical talks. 



Two courses are given, one of tw T o and the other of four years. 

 Many boys still leave the elementary schools at fourteen and 

 return straight to the land. Under the new Compulsory Con- 

 tinuation Law of New York State, all boys and girls will stay in 

 the High School till eighteen as soon as the necessary educational 

 machinery has been erected. 



The following is a tentative course of study for a certain district 

 in Xew York State : — 



First Year Agriculture: Third Year Agriculture: 



Farm Shop Work. Animal Husbandry. 



The accommodation at the school consists of two rooms, and 

 if possible an experimental plot. The first room serves as 

 laboratory and class room and contains the library, charts, papers, 

 soil and milk testing equipment. The second room is the work- 

 shop where the boys are taught how to sharpen all farm tools 

 and saws, to do farm repair work and elementary construction in 

 wood, to do cold metal work of all kinds, to solder, to glaze, to 

 mend harness and to do elementary plumbing. Simple mechani- 

 cal drawing is also taught and the experimental incubator is 

 generally housed in this room. 



Of the seventy-two counts required for an academic diploma 

 which will admit the boy to the State Agricultural College, 

 sixteen must be gained in English, ten in science, ten in mathe- 

 matics, ten in history and at least twenty-five in agriculture. For 

 a successfully completed " Farm Enterprise." most of which 



Poultry Husbandry. 

 Home Gardening. 



Fruit Growing. 

 Dairying. 



Second Year Agriculture 

 Farm Crops. 



Fourth Year Agriculture: 



Farm Management and Economics. 

 Farm Engineering and Machinery. 



Soils and Fertilisers. 

 Home Gardening. 



