30 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



the applied science, mathematics, etc., that may be necessary 

 in order to bring about the practice of right methods. This 

 teacher is not to teach any of the regular sciences in the 

 school or any other subject save those that may be neces- 

 sary to the group with which he deals in practical agri- 

 culture. The state is to pay two-thirds of the salary of the 

 instructor. The board of education has asked for $10,000 for 

 the years 1911-12 in order to test the worth of this scheme. 3 

 Some of the details of this plan for part time or project method 

 of agricultural instruction are given in chap, xiii, p. 125. In 

 addition to the Report of the State Board of Education on 

 Agricultural Education (166) referred to in chap, xiii, the 

 board has issued a bulletin on Agricultural Projects for Ele- 

 mentary Schools (33), the general scheme being the same as 

 for projects for high schools. 



Michigan. The State Commission on Industrial and Agri- 

 cultural Education appointed by the governor of Michigan in 

 the summer of 1909 has made in its report the following 

 recommendations: (i) provision of at least one high school 

 with a four-year course in each township; (2) introduction as 

 soon as possible of agriculture, manual training, and home 

 economics into all high schools ; (3) certification of all teachers 

 of agricultural and industrial subjects; (4) state supervision 

 of all agricultural and industrial courses; (5) state aid for 

 schools introducing high-school courses in agriculture and home 

 economics, as follows: (a) the total not to exceed $30,000 

 for the first year, $50,000 for the third year, and $100,000 for 

 any subsequent year; (&) an equal division of the funds be- 

 tween agriculture and home economics on the one hand and 

 industrial courses on the other; (c) schools certified for aid 

 in agriculture and home economics to receive $500 for the first 

 teacher employed, and $250 for each other teacher employed, no 

 school to receive more than $1,000 in all (Rpt. Mich. State Com. 

 on Indus, and Agric., 1910). 



From chap. 471, Massachusetts Code, and from letter of C. A. Prosser, deputy commis- 

 sioner of education. 



