No. 6. 



DEPARTMENT QF AGRICULTURE. 



In 1895 the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and 

 Experiment Stations appointed a committee on the methods of teach- 

 ing agriculture. This committee has made annual reports to the 

 association covering various phases of agricultural education. The 

 seventh report is on secondary courses in agriculture in which the 

 committee shows that agricultural courses may be offered in the 

 high schools without any violent or radical reorganization of exist- 

 ing programs for such schools. A number of existing high 

 school programs in different parts of the country were studied, 

 and a tentative agricultural course for a number of these was sug- 

 gested. The following, selected from the number is a simple form of 

 high school course prepared under the direction of the State Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction in Indiana and recommended for use 

 in that state in high schools where at least two teachers are em- 

 ployed in high school work exclusively. Eunning parallel to this 

 course the committee has prepared a tentative agricultural course, 

 which presupposes an additional teacher. 



PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL IN INDIANA. 



General Course. 



Algrebra 



English 



Latin, 



Physics or chemistry, 



FIRST YEAR. 



Tentative Agricultural Course. 



English 



Algebra 



Plants and their cultivation (1. 



general and economic) 



Physics 



e., botany. 



SECOND YEAR. 



Algebra (one-third year), ... 

 Geometry (two-thirds year), 



English, 



Latin 



English 



Algebra 



Geometry, 



Animals and their management 



zoology, general and economic), 



Chemistry, 



(1. e.. 



Geometry (two-thirds year), 

 Electlvet (one-third year), . 



English 



History, 



THIRD YEAR. 



English 6 



Geometry, Latin or German 6 



Agronomy (with special attention to local 



crops), , i 



History t 



FOURTH YEAR. 



Elective, t 



Zoology or botany, 



Latin 



History, 



History.. 



Political economy 



Zootechny and dairying, 

 Latin or German 



•With each subject, the number of recitation periods per week is given. 

 tMathematlcs, physical geography, oratory, or advanced physiology. 



The question is not whether either of these courses are perfect 

 or even logical, but whether it is possible to introduce into existing 

 programs of recognized standing, agriculture instruction without 

 a radical departure from existing conditions. 



It was suggested by the Committee that Avith the introduction 

 of agriculture into high schools of this kind, the division of studies 

 among three teachers might be as follows: 



A. English, Latin and German. 



B. Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Agriculture. 



C. Physics, Mathematics, History and Political Economy. 



