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The teacher training was done at the State university, where 4 students were enrolled in the vocational course, a decrease in the number in the department. This is a further demonstration of the need for more promotional work.

TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

Evening schools have been operated this year in five cities. Nevada's part-time law, passed by the legislature during the previous year, applies to but very few cities, owing to the limited number of youths under 18 that are employed. Classes are organized in three cities in three centers with an approximate enrollment of 82 pupils, 25 of whom were in trade extension and 57 in general continuation classes. One day-school class is reported. It is organized as a gen

eral industrial school.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Members of State board: John H. Bartlett, governor; Frank S. Streeter, lawyer; Wilfrid J. Lessard, lawyer; Thomas W. Fry, manufacturer; John C. Hutchins, merchant; Ralph D. Paine, author; Ernest W. Butterfield, commissioner of education.

Executive officer: Ernest W. Butterfield, commissioner of education, Concord.

State director of vocational education: George H. Whitcher.
State supervisor of agriculture: Waldo B. Cookingham.

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

The State board provided a supervisor of agriculture, who devoted half his time to supervision of agriculture in the schools and half of his time to teacher training at the New Hampshire State College. He made 93 visits to schools, held 1 State conference in 1919, and prepared necessary report forms for use in office records and improvement of teachers in service.

Fourteen schools, an increase of approximately 16 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 184 pupils in vocational work. The total income of pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture for 1918-19 was $5,070.13.

As indicated before, the State supervisor of agricultural education. devoted one-half of his time to training of teachers. He taught a course entitled "Methods of Teaching Agriculture in High Schools," and supervised the practice teaching. The latter consisted of eight weeks of apprentice teaching in vocational departments of agriculture. The institution graduated three men from the teacher-training course, each having spent eight weeks as apprentice teachers.

Vocational agricultural instruction in the State is being looked upon with favor in the communities where this kind of education 15449-20-10

has had a fair trial under competent instructors. The willingness of the schools to pay constantly increasing salaries is in many cases prevented only by their inability to secure experienced and trained men capable of earning such compensation.

HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION.

New Hampshire did not provide for supervision of home economies, nor use Federal funds for vocational classes in home economies. The State college is approved for training vocational teachers of home economics. For nine weeks of the last semester of the senior year the students are assigned to high schools of the State for practice teaching. During this time the one in charge of teacher training spends her time in the field supervising student teaching.

TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

No evening-school instruction is offered in the State. The State offers a number of opportunities for the development of tradeextension classes in connection with manufacturing plants in indus trial communities.

NEW JERSEY.

Members of State board: Melvin A. Rice, importer; John C. Van Dyke, professor of art; Percy H. Stewart, lawyer; Robert Lynn Cox, lawyer; D. Stewart Craven, manufacturer and farmer; Oscar W. Jeffery, lawyer; John P. Murray, lawyer; Thomas W. Synnott, manufacturer.

Executive officer: Calvin N. Kendall, commissioner of education. Trenton.

Assistant commissioner of education: Wesley A. O'Leary. Supervisor of agricultural education: Harry O. Sampson. Supervisor of trades and industries: John A. McCarthy. Supervisor of home economics education: Iris Prouty O'Leary.

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

During the year the State board employed the full time of one maz to look after the work of supervision in the State and the training of teachers in service. He made 158 visits to schools having voca tional agricultural departments, held 3 State conferences of teachers and 21 regional conferences, provided for an exhibit of vocational work in agriculture at Trenton during "agricultural week," arranged for an interscholastic judging contest by boys from vocational schools and high-school departments of agriculture, gave special stress during the year to the establishment of short courses in agriculture in connection with the high-school work, prepared articles from time to time on various phases of agricultural work in the State for the

educational bulletin published from the office of the commissioner of education, prepared promotional leaflets for the press of the State, and in place of a periodical news letter, as issued by many of the States, he sent to the teachers circular letters.

Fifteen schools, including 2 county units, having 18 centers, an increase of approximately 114 per cent over last year, were approved for Federal aid and enrolled 208 pupils in vocational work. The total income of pupils from directed or supervised practice in agriculture for 1918-19 was $12,628. Twenty-four short courses were conducted, with an enrollment of 269. These short courses were taught by the same teachers as are the all-day schools and without additional compensation. The agricultural teachers in New Jersey aid, as their school work permits, in many community activities in their respective districts.

With the employment of a full-time man the teacher-training work in New Jersey has been satisfactory this year. Larger numbers of undergraduate students have become interested in the work. This in spite of the very unusual opportunities and rewards which are offered to well-trained men in industry and in business in that part of the country. The total number of students taking undergraduate teacher-training work, including content and professional courses, was 66. Two courses were offered at a six weeks' summer session held at the State agricultural college. In addition to the supervisory and summer school work, very definite provisions were made for improvement of teachers in service through the assistance of the teacher-training department.

There is a growing demand for more vocational departments of agriculture; the work has been appreciated wherever such a department has been established, and many inquiries have come to the State office from districts desiring agricultural classes. The short-course work has been especially successful this year, as in every region where a short course was given the farmers are calling for more work of this kind for the next year, and the teachers of vocational agriculture are enthusiastic about this work.

HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION.

The State supervisor gave her time as needed to supervision, promotion of new work, and the training of teachers for part-time and evening classes. An assistant supervisor, employed for two-fifths of her time, had special direction of the improvement of teachers in service and itinerant teacher training. Professional improvement classes for teachers were held in six centers. A special group of 20 carefully selected women who have been home makers was trained at Newark for continuation school classes. Many of these had taken work previously in evening classes.

Nine independent all-day schools, with an enrollment of 477 students, were approved. This is an increase over the previous year of 3 schools and 87 students. The course offered is two years in length, with an opportunity for a third year of advanced work. There was one part-time school, with an enrollment of 315 pupils. Forty-nine evening-school centers, with 150 classes, enrolled 3,077 students, an increase of 41 centers and 482 students over last year.

The State agricultural college is designated for training vocational teachers of home economics. A four years' course is offered, but since this has been in operation but two years there were no junior or senior classes. Forty students were enrolled in the vocational course. Definite plans were worked out with the students for home projects to be carried on during this past summer and reported upon at the beginning of the fall term.

TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION.

The total expenditure on account of the salaries of approved teachers of evening trade and industrial classes was $22,004.67. The total reimbursement amounts to $10,000.

The total enrollment in evening trade and industrial classes approved for Federal aid was 2,780. The enrollment in State-aided classes not approved for Federal reimbursement was 3,048. The enrollment in evening classes receiving neither State nor Federal aid, including the Newark technical schools, was 1,274. The grand total enrollment for all evening industrial classes was 7,102.

DAY INDUSTRIAL CLASSES. AMOUNT OF BUDGET, $11,516.50.

Classes meeting the Federal requirements were maintained by the following counties and districts: Atlantic City, Bayonne, Elizabeth, Franklin, Middlesex County, Newark, Orange, Essex County, Paterson.

The total expenditures for the salaries of approved teachers in day industrial classes in these districts were $66,600.72. The total amount of Federal funds available for distribution to day schools is $11.516.50.

The total enrollment in approved classes of day industrial schools was 1,067. The enrollment in classes not approved was 444. The total enrollment in other classes was 517. The grand total enrollment for all-day industrial classes was 2,028.

The following part-time schools and classes have been maintained during the year: Cooperative part-time classes in high school, Paterson; classes for chemists' assistants, Middlesex County vocational school; part-time classes in home economics, Essex County vocational school; general continuation classes, Van Realte Co., Paterson.

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The total expenditures for the year on account of the salaries of approved teachers in these part-time schools and classes were $3,007.83. Federal funds in the amount of $1,503.91 can, therefore, be allotted to these classes. The total amount of the Federal appropriation for part-time classes was $15,031.97. This leaves an unexpended balance on account of part-time classes of $13,528.06.

The total enrollment in approved classes was 369. The enrollment in other classes approved for State aid but not for Federal aid was 40. The total enrollment in all classes was 409.

NEW MEXICO.

Members of State board: O. A. Larrazolo, governor; Jonathan H. Wagner, State superintendent of public instruction; Jose Sena, clerk, supreme court; Earl Douglass, county superintendent; Amado Chavez, lawyer; Mrs. Josie Lockard, teacher; Col. James W. Willson, president, military institute.

Executive officer: Jonathan H. Wagner, State superintendent of public instruction, Santa Fe.

State director of vocational education: Mrs. Ruth C. Miller.
State supervisor of home economics: Mrs. Ruth C. Miller.
State supervisor of trade and industries: A. B. Anderson.
State supervisor of agriculture: E. D. Smith.

PROVISIONS FOR COOPERATION.

At the present time the State appropriation for vocational education meets the Federal appropriation. The plan of the State department of education is to have a bill enacted into legislation at the January meeting of the legislature whereby there will be a permanent State appropriation sufficient to guarantee 50 per cent of the salary of every vocational teacher in the State.

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION.

Agriculturally New Mexico has opportunities that abound in but few other States and no one need lack opportunity. Good judgment, however, is required and a good knowledge of the conditions that attend the type of agriculture that is undertaken. The types of agriculture vary from irrigated to dry farming and to range stock; from the intensive to the extensive methods; and from sandy soil to heavy, adobe types of croppage. The State board continued to employ a supervisor of agriculture, who visited 49 schools for the purpose of inspection and of giving advice and assistance in the organization of vocational departments of agriculture, held conferences with boards of education and school officials, and laid special emphasis on the relative importance of organizing the students of voca

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