Note 2 — GIRLS’ SCHOOLS IN MANILA AND THE PROVINCES

Since American occupancy. By section 19 of act 74 of the Philippine Commission it was provided that there should be established and maintained a school of agriculture in the island of Negros, and by section 24 of the same act, the sum of $15,000 was appropriated out of any funds in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated for the organization and maintenance of the school for the year 1901. It was suggested that such a school be established on the government plantation at La Carlota, but it is an inaccessible place, and it was proposed to find a more convenient place. The organization of the school was delayed in order to bring it into connection with the proposed experimental sugar plantation in Negros. By act no. 512, passed November 10, 1902, the work of establishing an agricultural college was transferred from the bureau of public instruction to the bureau of agriculture, and the government farm at La Granja in western Negros was set aside as a site for this school, and for an experiment station to be conducted in connection with it. After a long delay, plans were submitted for a main building to contain laboratories, class-rooms, offices, and also a dormitory. Twenty-five thousand dollars were appropriated for its construction. Arrangements were made, however, by which certain teachers in the provinces were to be employed to coöperate with the bureau of agriculture in making various experiments and in gathering such information as might be useful in promoting knowledge of the agricultural conditions of the islands. At the same time the law establishing secondary instruction in provincial schools provided for the extension of the curriculum beyond the ordinary course of high-school instruction and instruction in agriculture, which meant that the provincial schools might, on a larger or smaller scale, as the authorities of the province might determine, carry on instruction and experiments in such branches of agriculture as might be supposed to be adapted to the conditions in the province in which any provincial school was established. March 25, 1903, a director of the experiment station was appointed in order that he might take charge of the government property on the estate and begin the work of getting land under cultivation.2