28 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



school work" (Cal. Political Code, Sec. 1750, May i, 1911). 

 The state office of education is especially active in promoting 

 agricultural education, co-operating with the college of agri- 

 culture of the state university. 



Idaho. Rural high schools are established with agricultural 

 instruction as part of the course of study. The subject of agri- 

 culture fe put on the list of subjects required in examination 

 for county certificates for teaching. 



Iowa. An act of the last legislature provides for the es- 

 tablishment of departments for training of teachers in agriculture 

 and home economics in forty high schools, and appropriates 

 $500 special state aid for each of these schools. 



Kansas. A sum of $250 annually is available to such high 

 schools maintaining normal training 2 as may organize courses in 

 agriculture and domestic science under rules and regulations 

 to be formulated by the state board of education. This pro- 

 vision is also extended to such high schools as may hereafter 

 introduce normal training. A law was also passed requiring 

 an examination in agriculture for all forms of county teachers' 

 certificates. 



Louisiana. During the years 1910-11 agricultural depart- 

 ments were established in seventeen high schools, and the legisla- 

 ture of 1910 appropriated $25,000 per annum for the years 

 1910-11 to aid these schools. No more than twenty agricultural 

 departments will be recognized during the sessions of 1910-11 

 and 1911-12. The following is a summary of requirements 

 made by the state board of education for the departments of 

 agriculture of schools receiving state aid : A demonstration 

 farm of at least five acres, which must be tightly fenced, and 

 provided with barn containing full equipment; apparatus for 

 teaching science, with an addition of at least $100 worth of 

 apparatus especially for teaching agriculture ; at least $40 worth 

 of tools and $140 worth of farming implements, and $250 for 



These departments for normal training in high schools were provided for by previous 

 legislature. 



