1 6 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



of August 7, 1907. These schools receive $2,000 annually from 

 the state. High schools have been established under these pro- 

 visions in 34 of the 67 counties of the state. 



County high schools in Kansas must prepare for the State 

 Agricultural College as well as for other colleges, but reports 

 both from the Agricultural College and the State University 

 seem to indicate that the strong influence of the latter is thrown 

 decidedly on the side of classical work and indirectly against 

 agricultural work. 



The parish or county " agricultural " schools now being estab- 

 lished in Louisiana are organized under the general high-school 

 law. They receive the same state aid, about $350 for the year 

 1909-10, that county high schools have heretofore been given, 

 although a great effort is now being made to secure an appro- 

 priation of 825,000 for the county schools teaching agriculture.^ 

 These schools are on the same basis as other approved high 

 schools, and do four years' work, from the eighth to the eleventh 

 grades inclusive. For the present they will admit only boys, 

 although domestic science courses for girls may be added later. 

 Each school must be provided by the county with certain pre- 

 scribed facilities in the way of " apparatus $300. equipment 

 $300, land not less than 5 acres, barns, teams, etc." The course 

 in agriculture is distinct from other high-school courses, although 

 some schools have both literary and agricultural courses. So 

 far as purpose and content of instruction go, those without 

 the literary courses might strictly be classed with '* agricultural " 

 schools, while the others although supported in the same way 

 may properly be included among the non-specialized high 

 schools. Nine have so far been established, in Arcadia, Bunkie, 

 Dodson, Hope Villa. Jacoby, Leesville, Merryville, Stonewall, 

 and in one other village. 



In Michigan the course of study for rural township high 

 schools " may include instruction in manual tt aining, domestic 

 science, nature-study and the elements of agriculture." 



The legislature of Minnesota, in 1909, provided aid for the 

 establishment of departments of agriculture, manual training, 



'The legislature of 1910 gave $50,000 for special work in agriculture. 

 This will give each school $1,200 to $1,500. 



