2 1 2 THE NA TURE-STUD Y RE VIE W [5:8— nov.. 1909 



of its faculty, last spring by which several new matriculation 

 courses, including horticulture and dairying, were added to the 

 list, which the graduate of a high school may offer for entrance 

 requirements, the university accepted these studies as rightfully 

 belonging among those taken by students who are preparing to 

 go to college. It thus takes a definite stand in favor of the 

 mo^ ement to include in the high-school curriculum studies that 

 shall actually prepare the great majority of students, who cannot 

 attend a university, to become "successful bread-winners and 

 home-makers." 



The immediate effects of this act on the part of the University 

 has been observed among high schools. While it is true that 

 certain schools were seriously considering the introduction of 

 agriculture in the past, the attitude in favor of this study is now 

 pronounced and is actually bringing definite results in several 

 instances. 



The schools that have made a beginning in teaching agriculture 

 fall into two classes according to (i) whether they have incorpora- 

 ted a specified course in the subject to extend throughout one or 

 more years or (2) whether they deal with the subject as correlated 

 or applied science without introducing it as a separate course. 



During the present year four of our high schools have included 

 a course in agriculture in their curriculum. These institutions 

 are the Imperial County Union High School situated at Imperial, 

 in the extreme southwest corner of the State, the Oxnard Union 

 High School, on the coast north of Los Angeles, the Kern County 

 Union High School, at Bakersfield and the Hanford High School 

 in Kings County, both in the southern San Joaquin Valley. In 

 each of these schools a specially prepared man has been employed 

 at a salary of twelve hundred dollars. The teacher in the Im- 

 perial School, Mr. David N. Morgan, is a recent graduate of this 

 university. He has kindly furnished a brief description of 

 present conditions. The letter is interesting and has a spirit of 

 its own. I reproduce it in part below : 



"The high school work has far exceeded my expectations. 

 Twelve are enrolled in botany and plant propagation, six in the 

 dairy course and six in the course in livestock. I also have the 

 entire entering class (twenty-eight) in physical geography. 



"I have discovered that the botany work must be distinctly 

 Imperial, for we have no local flora to furnish the usual material 

 for such work. The class is using Bailey's "First Lessons in 



