PROGRESS IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION, 265 



Hours per week. 



Elementary and agricultural physics 3 periods of 40 minutes. 



History: English 2 periods of 40 minutes. 



Optional study (foreign language, commercial geography, or 



science) 5 periods of 40 minutes. 



Total 20 periods or 131 hours. 



Class agriculture 2 periods or 1 J hours. 



Practice work 18 periods or 18 hours. 



Total 20 periods or 19 J hours. 



FOURTH YEAR. 



English continued 4 periods of 40 minutes. 



Geometry 5 periods of 40 minutes. 



Civics, farm economics 2 periods of 40 minutes. 



Elementary and agricultural chemistry 3 periods of 40 minutes. 



Optional study (foreign language, modern history, or sci- 

 ence) 5 periods of 40 minutes. 



Total 19 periods or 12f hours. 



Class agriculture 3 periods or 2 hours. 



Practice work 18 periods or 18 hours. 



Total 21 periods or 20 hours. 



TOTALS FOR FOUR YEARS. 



Class room other than agriculture. i *^'*^^ ^""^ '^"^'^ practice work in agriculture in all 



" its forms. 



Periods or hours a week: 



First year 19 periods, 12§ hours. 



Second year 18 periods, 12 hours. 



Third year 20 periods, 13J hours. 



Fourth year 19 periods, 121 hours. 



Total 76 periods, 50J hours. 



Hours a week: 



First year 20 hours. 



Second year 20 hours. 



Third year 19 J hours. 



Fourth year 20 hours. 



Total 79§ hours. 



Agriculture, 

 first year fall term. 



Class room. — Three recitations a week. 



The plant, its composition, structure, and physiology. 



How plants feed, grow, and reproduce. 

 Plant laboratory. — One period a week, three hours. 



Study a number of plants with reference to their composition and structure, their 

 methods of reproduction, the uses of leaf, stem, root, flower, and fruit, and such proc- 

 esses as pollination, crossing, and hybridizing. 

 Plat work. — One period a week, three hours. 



Each pupil will have a small garden in which the vegetables of the region can be 

 grown. Care must be taken that all work in this garden be done in season and that 

 such a rotation of crops be followed as will best utilize the space at all times. The 

 pupil will be held responsible for the care of the garden, will be taught the best meth- 

 ods of preparing the ground and planting, cultivating, harvesting, and marketing 

 the crop, and will be required to keep an accurate account of all labor and expense, 

 and profit or loss. He will enjoy his profits or Ijear his losses, as the case may be. 

 Farm mechanics. — One period a week, three hours. 



