14 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Sclwols 



witli ten or more teachers and five times as frequent as those 

 with from five up to ten teachers."^ 



The data in the report of the United States Commissioner 

 of Education for 1904, from which he makes his computations, 

 show that out of a total of 7,174 high schools in United States 

 up to that time there were 2,175 ^^^S^ schools with but one 

 teacher, 1,807 with two teachers, 1,221 with three teachers; or 

 3,982 with one or two teachers, and 5,203 with three teachers 

 or less. 



The same data also show that over 36 per cent of the high- 

 school pupils of the United States are in these schools with 

 three teachers or less. 



Types of Secondary Schools Teaching Agriculture 



From the standpoint of the average American citizen, sec- 

 ondary schools giving instruction in agriculture fall into two 

 groups : ( I ) Those supported by public funds, regardless of 

 how the money is raised, and (2) schools supported by private 

 benefactions. From the standpoint of administration, however, 

 the line of cleavage is rather between the general, or non- 

 specialized, public high school with agriculture included among 

 the various other studies taught, and the special, or technical, 

 agricultural high school. ]\Iany technical agricultural schools 

 * are private, but appealing to a general constituency, while many 

 others, both public and private, are for mental and moral de- 

 linquents. None of these technical schools will be considered 

 in this work except those maintained by public funds and open 

 to the young people of the community, and then but briefly in 

 Chapter VI. 



The general high school offering instruction in agriculture is 

 of practically every type recognized among public schools, except 

 the large city type. The political units supporting it range from 

 villages and parts of townships to counties. The special schools, 

 on the other hand, arc supported almost without exception by 

 the larger political units, the county, the congressional or special 

 district, or the state at large. 



* Educational Review, vol. ^3, March, 1907, table I, p. 253. 



