The Public High School 



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least an unincorporated hamlet. The township high school often 

 shares a building with a " consolidated " or " centralized " ele- 

 mentary school, and is then governed by the same school board 

 and principal, but in some states it operates under a different 

 board with separate taxing powers, as in Illinois. The special 

 district high school may resemble any of the other types except 

 the county high school. It may be supported by a city or 

 village and the immediately surrounding territory; it may be 

 composed of two or more contiguous country school districts, 

 forming a sort of " part township high school " ; or it may con- 

 sist of parts of adjoining townships. The returns do not always 

 indicate the nature of such special districts. 



Table 4 

 Public High Schools with Courses in Agriculture 



a In New York 35 villages and cities have agriculture in the training course but not 

 in the regular four- year course. 



b The table excludes a large number of village schools having a four- weeks' " review 

 course." 



c The table excludes a large number of villages doing no laboratory or demonstration 

 work, and those schools professing to teach agriculture only incidentally. 



d A large number of schools should be included in the table but returns necessary to 

 classify them are not at hand; among these may be mentioned about 350 schools in the 

 North Central States alone, including 222 in Nebraska not already counted. See page 30 



The schools reporting may be grouped into two classes accord- 

 ing to the type of instruction : those teaching agriculture as a 

 distinct subject and those giving attention to it only as an inci- 

 dent in the teaching of the sciences usually given in high schools. 

 This second class will receive its chief attention in the latter 

 part of this chapter, with occasional references in appropriate 

 sections of other chapters. 



Over 75 per cent of the first class sent in more or less full 

 reports following, in most cases, a preliminary postal card 



