302 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The normal schools are not here included in the list of secondary 

 institutions, because their work in agriculture is in many cases purely 

 elementary. They will be mentioned elsewhere. The institutions 

 for Indians have also been omitted from the list of secondary schools 

 because of the difficulty of properly classifying them at the present 

 time. They are included among the elementary schools. 



The number of technical agricultural schools of secondary grade, 

 aside from those maintained in connection with the agricultural col- 

 leges, increased from sixty in 1910 to eighty-eight at the j^resent time. 

 Eight of these are private schools. The remaining eighty are main- 

 tained wholly or in part by State funds in some seventeen States, 

 and entail an aimual expenditure by the States in which they 

 are located of over $780,000 for instruction and maintenance, not 

 counting large expenditures for land, buildings, and equipment. 

 These are institutions which undertake definitely to prepare j'oung 

 men for the business of farming and young women for home making. 

 Their courses are vocational rather than cultural or preparatory and 

 they compete little, if at all, with the agricultural colleges or the 

 public high schools. 



The area served by these agricultural schools varies in different 

 States from a single county to a large indeterminate section. In 

 Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, and 

 Wisconsin the county unit has been adopted ; in Alabama and Georgia 

 the congressional district has been adopted as the unit, and in Okla- 

 homa the supreme court judicial district; while in California, Colo- 

 rado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, 

 and Vermont the agricultural schools are located without reference 

 to such divisions of the State and serve indeterminate areas. 



Wisconsin was the first State to establish county agricultural 

 schools. In 1911 that State had five such schools in operation, Mary- 

 land had two, Michigan two, Mississippi twenty-three, and North 

 Carolina four. Alabama was the first State to provide a complet^J 

 system of agricultural schools by congressional districts, of which it 

 has nine, and was followed by Georgia with eleven district schools. 

 Oklahoma has an agricultural school in each of its five judicial dis- 

 tricts and one additional school in the " Panhandle." 



Of the schools located without reference to special divisions of the 

 State, California has two, Colorado and Minnesota two each. New 

 York three, and Massachusetts, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and Ver- 

 mont one each. 



The number of public and private high schools and academies re- 

 ceiving students in agriculture has now reached 1,886. Two hundred 

 and eighty-five of these inaugurated courses in agriculture under the 

 stimulus afforded by State aid, while 1,601 started the work without 

 such aid. In 1910 there were only four hundred and thirty-two of 



