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PUBLIC LAW 5 5 0 - J U L Y 16, 1952

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(7) Provision is made for related instruction for the individual eligible veteran who may need it. (8) There is in the training establishment adequate space, equipment, instructional material, and instructor personnel to provide satisfactory training on the job. (9) Adequate records are kept to show the progress made by each eligible veteran toward his j ob obj ective. (10) Appropriate credit is given the eligible veteran for previous training and job experience, whether in the military service or elsewhere, his beginning wage adjusted to the level to which such credit advances him and his training period shortened accordingly and provision is made for certification by the training establishment that such credit has been granted and the beginning wage adjusted accordingly. No course of training will be considered bona fide if given to an eligible veteran who is already qualified by training and experience for the job objective. (11) A signed copy of the training agreement for each eligible veteran, including the training program and wage scale as approved by the State approving agency, is provided to the veteran and to the Administrator and the State approving agency by the employer. (12) Upon completion of the course of training furnished by the training establishment the eligible veteran is given a certificate by the employer indicating the length and type of training provided and that the eligible veteran has completed the course of training on the job satisfactorily. (13) That the course meets such other criteria as may be established by the State approving agency. INSTITUTIONAL ON-FARM TRAINING

SEC. 252. (a) An eligible veteran shall be entitled to the benefits of this title while enrolled in a course of full-time institutional on-farm training which has been approved by the appropriate State approving agency in accordance with the provisions of this section. (b) The State approving agency may approve a course of institum^I°''^^ require- tioual ou-f arm training when it satisfies the following requirements: (1) The course combines organized group instruction in agricultural and related subjects of at least two hundred hours per year (and of at least eight hours each month) at an educational institution, with supervised work experience on a farm or other agricultural establishment. (2) The eligible veteran will perform a part of such course on a farm or other agricultural establishment under his control. (3) The course is developed with due consideration to the size and character of the farm or other agricultural establishment on which the eligible veteran will receive his supervised work experience and to the need of such eligible veteran, in the type of farming for which he is training, for proficiency in planning, producing, marketing, farm mechanics, conservation of resources, food conservation, farm financing, farming management, and the keeping of farm and home accounts. (4) The eligible veteran will receive not less than one hundred hours of individual instruction per year, not less than fifty hours of which shall be on such farm or other agricultural establishment (with at least two visits by the instructor to such farm each month). Such individual instruction shall be given by the instructor responsible for the veteran's institutional instruction and shall include instruction and home-study assignments in the

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