12 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



with the art of farming. The non-agricultural studies may vary 

 from three-fourths to five-sixths of the time in a given term 

 or year in some schools, down to a proportion as low as a tenth 

 of the time in certain terms of other schools. So that the 

 line of demarcation between these and the one extreme of the 

 general public high school is sometimes one of name and or- 

 ganization only. This will be discussed more fully in Chapter 

 VI. (4) A type of special school giving agricultural work of 

 secondary grade, is the teachers' training school, whether main- 

 tained by the state, county, or town. The output of the state 

 normal schools is largely absorbed by the elementary schools 

 of cities and towns where agriculture is not taught, and where 

 it has practically no influence on the nature-study given. The 

 work of the state normal schools is largely important in this 

 study for its bearing on the rural high school teacher problem, 

 but is too large a subject to be considered in this study. 



