36 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



Pennsylvania. The new school code provides for the ap- 

 pointment of an expert assistant in agriculture for the state 

 department of education and makes agricultural education a 

 part of the objects to be promoted by the state board of education. 



Texas. State aid to the amount of from $500 to $2,000 

 is given for one year to high schools providing approved in- 

 struction in agriculture. 



Utah. Agriculture is made a part of the course of study 

 prepared by the state office of education for accredited high 

 schools. 



Vermont. The state department of education has issued a 

 Manual of Agriculture for the Public Schools of. Vermont (35). 



Washington. Elementary agriculture is made an optional 

 subject in the eighth grade of the public schools of the state. 



Wisconsin. An act passed in 1911 makes available to each 

 school "maintaining a department of manual training, or do- 

 mestic economy or agriculture, or any or all of these departments 

 one-half the amount actually expended for instruction in such 

 department, not, however, to exceed $350 for each department 

 above named which shall have been maintained in connection 

 with the high school and the three upper grades below the high 

 school, but not to exceed $250 for each department named 

 maintained only in connection with the high school." It is 

 possible under this act for a school district maintaining courses 

 in these three subjects to receive $1,050 per year from the state. 

 No state aid may be given to any school for instruction in 

 agriculture, domestic economy, manual training, or industrial 

 branches unless the salary of every teacher giving instruction 

 in such subjects shall receive at least $60 per month. 



The maximum state aid to any county school of agriculture 

 and domestic economy is raised from $4,000 per annum to $6,000- 

 $8,000 per annum, depending upon average daily attendance. 

 The Stout Institute located at Menomonie is to receive state 

 support, $30,000 for the current year and $55,000 per annum 

 thereafter. 



