152 AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS 



156. "Community Work in the Agricultural High School." B. H. CROCH- 

 ERON. National Society for the Study of Education, Tenth Yearbook, 

 Part II (1911), 91-6. 



A detailed description of the community work undertaken by the Balti- 

 more (Md.) County Agricultural High School. It includes an account of 

 the school, its organization, and work among the farmers, farmers' wives, 

 and young people of the community. This paper shows the great possibilities 

 of a rural high school in its service to an entire community, children and 

 adults as well. 



157. Elementary Agriculture in the New Holland (Ohio) High School. G. A. 

 BRICKER. Ohio Agricultural College Extension Bulletin, III, No. 7 

 (1908), 6. 



A brief description of the organization of work in agriculture with con- 

 crete examples of some of the things actually accomplished. 



158. "The John Swaney School." V. C. KAYS. Nature-Study Review, IV, 

 No. 9 (1908), 271-75. 



An account of the history and of the first two years' experience of this 

 school. It is in the country, "planned and built by country people for the 

 education of country children." 



159. Opportunity for the California High School: Industrial and Agricultural 

 Education. EDWARD HIATT. California State Department of Educa- 

 tion, Special Bulletin (July, 1910), 21. 



This bulletin describes the plans for introducing agriculture into the high 

 school of the city of Stockton, Cal. 



160. "Agriculture in the Secondary Schools of California." E. B. BABCOCK. 

 Nature-Study Review, V (1909), 210-18. 



The work of several high schools giving instruction in agriculture is 

 described. The article includes extracts from a report of F. H. Bolster of 

 the Gardena (Los Angeles City) High School. This is of particular interest 

 as it is claimed that the Gardena High School is the first city high school to 

 "offer agriculture as the one principal purpose of the school." 



161. The State High School. A. E. PICKARD. Hinckley (Minn.) High School 

 Bulletin (1910), 23. 



A full account of this school is given, including courses of study, gen- 

 eral information as to admission, expenses, certificates, scope and purposes 

 of courses, etc., detailed description of work offered in agriculture, manual 

 training, domestic science, and normal work. This school is one of the 

 ten high schools of Minnesota receiving state aid. All of these schools are 

 similar in organization to this one. 



162. Schools of Agriculture, Mechanic Arts, and Home Making. F. W. HOWE. 

 New York State Department of Education, Special Circular (November 

 i, 1910). 



This circular contains a "general statement in reference to the relations 



1 of this type of school to the so-called 'trade schools,' and the responsibility 



of the Division of Trade Schools in respect to it, and the text of the law 



relating to these schools, notes on this law, brief descriptions of some typical 



