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the late D. L. Moody. Massachusetts also has several institu- 

 tions giving courses of horticulture for women. Missouri 1 

 has three State schools giving agricultural instruction. 



New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have each one high 

 school specially devoted to agricultural instruction, and a girls' 

 industrial college was opened in Texas in 1903, in which con- 

 siderable attention is given to horticulture, dairying, bee- 

 keeping, and poultry keeping. 



Secondary courses in agriculture have been organised this 

 year in the Montana and Idaho Colleges, and in the Public High 

 School of St. Louis, Michigan. Agriculture is also taught in 

 200 high schools in Missouri, in 30 in Ohio, and in one or more 

 in 21 other States of the Union. Recent legislation in Virginia 

 provides for the establishment of public high schools under 

 the authority of the State Superintendent of Education. 

 About 150 such schools will be opened shortly, in each of 

 which instruction in agriculture will be a feature of the course. 



Primary Schools. 



The Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations for 

 the year ending June 30, 1907, has an interesting chapter 

 .on Primary Schools. It is stated that there is an ever-growing 

 sentiment throughout the country in favour of giving some 

 agricultural instruction in these schools. 



The laws of over 30 States now permit or require 

 the teaching of agriculture in primary schools. Among the 

 States which require it are Alabama, Louisiana, Maine, Mary- 

 land, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, 

 and Wisconsin. Ohio reports that elementary agriculture is 

 taught in about 500 township schools, and this subject is regu- 

 larly taught in rural schools numbering about 4,500 in Wis- 

 consin, 3,000 in Missouri, 300 in North Dakota, and in a con- 

 siderable number of schools in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, 

 Indiana, Indian Territory, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, 

 New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, 

 South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, and Washington. 



Permissive or mandatory legislation concerning the teaching 

 of agriculture in elementary schools is usually accompanied 

 by provisions making it one of the subjects in which teachers 

 may or must be examined. 



