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four schools, when approved by the. Dean of the College of 

 Agriculture and the School Superintendent. Cost of maintain- 

 ing each school is to be reported to the latter. Each school 

 must be maintained eight months in the year. The State 

 grants to any county maintaining such a school " a sum equal 

 to two-thirds the amount actually expended for maintaining 

 such a school, provided that the total amount so apportioned 

 shall not exceed £800 to any one school in any one year." 



These schools are described in a special Bulletin issued by 

 the Federal Department of Agriculture, and a special account 

 of the Dunn County School has also been published. 



From these it appears that these agricultural county schools, 

 which are two in number, the Dunn County and the Marathon 

 County Schools of Agriculture and Domestic Economy, were 

 opened in Wisconsin in 1902. Marinette County will open 

 a school of the same class this year, and other counties are con- 

 sidering the advisability of following this example. 



These schools were equipped at the expense of the counties 

 in which they are located. This is true as to buildings, furni- 

 ture, apparatus, machinery, and stock, but the State aids 

 each school to the extent of £800 a year, to be applied to current 

 expenses. The total annual current expenses have hitherto 

 only amounted to £1,200 for each school. 



The Dunn County School of Agriculture has its principal 

 buildings located in the centre of Menomonie, the capital of the 

 county ; there is room on the same site for poultry runs and a 

 small 'garden for girls. These grounds were given to the school. 

 The farm area of six acres is situated nearly a mile from the 

 school. Here boys get practice in farm, orchard, and nursery 

 work during the spring term. In Marathon County the school 

 is located outside the town on a seven-acre farm, obliging 

 students to walk some distance to school, but + heir farm work 

 is close to the school buildings. 



The Dunn County School has four buildings — a main building, 

 of which the first and second floors are devoted to the School 

 of Agriculture, and the third floor to the County Teachers' 

 Training School. On the lower floor is a general laboratory, 

 20 ft. by 40 ft., in which elementary science is taught ; a serving 

 and lecture room, 20 ft. by 30 ft. ; laundry and bath room, 

 14 ft. by 33 ft. ; dynamo room, 11 ft. by 14 ft. ; men's wash 



