there must be something more than toil, toil, in store for them. They must see some light along the horizon, something to toil for. You must drive out apathy, discontent, indifference, by putting new ideas in the mind, for when work is no longer mere drudgery but intelligent work, it changes in character. The worker is no longer a cog in a wheel, but a creator of something, and therein lies the joy of all work.

The individual who knows exactly how to do a thing, knows the results, knows that intelligent work brings better results and greater returns, takes pride and joy in what he does. He feels that he is a little better than the man who in blind prejudice closes his eyes and ears to everything new and progressive, fearing the pain of a new idea.

It is to keep boys and girls on the farm and make them contented and satisfied that the State has made possible the existence of such schools as Marathon and Dunn County Schools of Agriculture; all other schools take boys and girls away from the farm. Pupils in other schools are apt, in their ignorance, to make the child ashamed of the farm and he longs to get away from it. Agricultural schools teach the dignity of farm labor, the freedom of farm life, the sure returns from up-todate methods, the love of the broad acres and beautiful fields. And yet it looks as though the farmer cares nothing about his children's future, for while he adds more sheep, more acres, more miles of fence, the children, from lack of interest, become discontented and leave him. He cannot spend the money to interest them in the farm, he

thinks that everything that relates to it can be learned at home.

Are all good things to belong to city people? All benefits in education, culture, health, right living, and all that goes to the enjoyment of life? Is the little country girl to be left on the farm until she becomes discontented because she has had no chance to learn to do home work in a way that makes it a pleasure, and to love to do it, no chance to earn money for herself right at home? Is she to find her way to the city to become the servant of the city woman who considers her ignorant, uncouth and beneath her in every way? God's birthright to every one in America is equality, and farmers have much to answer for, if, while they have acres and acres, fancy stock, good horses, well filled granaries, they forget that the only thing in life that really counts for anything is the welfare of the little boy and girl that they let drift into the city to become the unskilled laborers of people that the farmer himself could buy and sell.

Send them where they will learn to make their own clothes; to care for their health and the health of the family, so that contagious diseases are warded off, so that indigestion and dyspepsia caused by poor food and bad cooking do not sour the disposition of the household and make them invalids at 40; where they can learn to earn spending money right on the farm and be contented there and a help and comfort to the overworked mother in her advancing years, and where they will learn how to be successful homemakers when they get ready to begin life for themselves.

esting educational problems since the establishment of the so-called land grant colleges for the teaching of agriculture and the mechanic arts. This new step in the extension of agricultural education to the masses was one which made the educators of the country look on with mingled doubt and hope-doubt that the new schools, established on a county basis, could be a success-hope that their experience, if

ings, furniture, apparatus, machinery and stock. But the state aids each school to the extent of $4,000 a year to apply on the running expenses. The total running expense thus far has been only $6,000 a year for each school.

General Equipment.

The Dunn County School of Agriculture has three buildings located on a half block in the center of Menomonie,

nursery work. The area may be increased from time to time.

Buildings for Agricultural School. The school has the use of four buildings:

The main building, built by Dunn county, is 42x96 feet, three stories high, built of brick. The first and second floors are devoted to the uses of the School of Agriculture and the third floor to the County Teachers' Training School. A glass wing 30x30 feet, given by Mrs. Bertha Tainter, is used for greenhouse purposes.

sons, winter storage of roots, bulbs and tender plants.

The farm tool house, built by students, is 14x16 feet, one story high. It is located on the county fair grounds, near the school farm.

The probable number of students that could attend the County Agricultural School at any one time is about 125.

The carpentry and blacksmith shops are supplied with the best of tools, substantial and handy benches (made by students), forges, anvils, vises, lathes, circle saw, steam engine, gasoline en

gine, etc. The sewing department has its cutting tables, work tables, sewing machines, tracing boards and wardrobes. The kitchen equipment, of utensils, dishes, tables, cabinets, ranges, food sets, cupboards, sink and refrigerator, is complete in every detail. The laboratory is provided with apparatus necessary for chemistry, physics, plant life and soil experiments. Facilities for stereopticon illustration are provided. Machinery and tools for use on the farm and garden are of the most modern types.

The equipment in the dairy includes cream separators, Babcock testers, combined churn and worker, ripening vat, milk heater, scales and complete set of utensils. The sloping cement floor and brick walls make the creamery quite sanitary and modern.

Poultry quarters are constructed on model plans of economy and cleanliness. The department is supplied with two incubators and two brooders. Brooders were built by carpentry' students. A Dandy bone grinder helps materially in the winter production of eggs. The best types of farm poultry are kept.

In regard to building and equipment, it should be remembered that for the amount which the county has expended it has two young institutions established, viz., the Agricultural School and the Teachers' Training School. Much has been saved by building for two schools at the same time. The main building cost $16,500; the horticulture building, given by citizens and city of Menomonie and repaired by insurance money after the fire of 1903, is valued at $2,600; the mechanical building, given by Senator J. H. Stout, was moved by the county onto a basement built by the county, valued at $3,000. The farm tool house, built by students, is valued at $100. The complete school equipment, besides buildings, is valued at $9,000. This includes all apparatus, furniture, and tools purchased, donated to the school, or made by students.

The entire property of the two county schools (Agricultural and Teachers') has cost the county $23,035. But the total valuation of the property, including the small farm, is $39,103.85. The difference is made up largely by gifts from manufacturers and citizens, and

by articles made by students in the School of Agriculture.

Cost of Running the School. The state law authorizes any county (not to exceed four) to build and equip a school of agriculture and pay the running expenses for one year. After that the state will pay two-thirds of the annual cost of maintaining the school-not to exceed $4,000 for each school. Experience of two years shows that the annual running expense is about $6,000, two-thirds of which is paid by the state and only one-third by the county.

The assessed value of taxable property in Dunn county is about $10,500,000. Any person with an assessment of $100 will pay less than two cents to support the school.

Property assessed at $1,000 requires a payment of less than 20 cents a year to run this school. Thus it is seen that the annual cost is almost nothing to the individual taxpayer in the county.

When such are the facts, all who may have had some fears regarding the matter of annual cost may feel at ease; for surely a county in an agricultural region can easily support its own "Farmers' School."

The farmers of the county can each receive many times more benefit from the school than it costs them.

Correlative Lines of Work for Farmers and Teachers.

Much agricultural information is disseminated from the Agricultural School to the farmers of the county. Directions for planting, suggestions as to varieties, combatting noxious weeds, helping establish co-operative creameries, planning barns, silos, school houses, dwellings, devising ventilators, selecting stock, and many other subjects are taken up by the instructors with individual farmers. The school has done a great deal of milk and cream testing for farmers for the purpose of helping to improve dairy herds. On the school farm we try such new crops as should be used by those living in the section. Many hundreds of bulletins on special farm topics have been placed in the

Character of the Instruction.

In all the instruction in the Dunn County School of Agriculture the useful side of the knowledge and training given to students is emphasized. This is the principle on which the school is founded. The extended knowledge which the farmer must have should be made as practical as possible. every point the school is made to cooperate with the farm, the shop, the dairy and the home. The manual train

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knowledge as they gain in a practical school of this kind. Farmers' sons and daughters are just as much entitled to a special training as are the young people of the cities. A special education is needed for farming as well as for the practice of medicine or law.

The farm demands men who are prepared in special schools, such as this new line of agricultural high schools being created by counties in Wisconsin. Men with the best brains are