30 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



agriculture as a separate branch. The principals of all the 

 other schools included in Table 2 were addressed early in 1908. 

 Late in the same year names of over 100 schools reputed to 

 be giving incidental instruction in agriculture were obtained, 

 to which inquiries have not been sent. That agriculture is taught 

 or not in all the schools included in the above tables has been 

 verified by reports received from the superintendents, principals, 

 or special instructors. If the ratio of schools teaching agricul- 

 ture to those not teaching it, as shown by the returns from the 

 list furnished for Ohio, were maintained by those schools which 

 have not reported, about twenty would be added for that state 

 for the year 1908-9. Official lists from certain other states 

 have so shrunken when checked up by the returns received 

 directly from the schools 4;hat not much is to be expected from 

 those not replying. A few schools included in Table 6, and 

 a number not included in either, have reported that they would 

 offer distinct work along agricultural lines during the school 

 year 1908-9. Fifty-seven high schools in Nebraska reported, 

 some on the training class work in the eleventh and twelfth 

 grades, some on the agriculture exclusive of the training class, 

 and some on both. Twelve reported all of the pupils studying 

 agriculture as being in the training classes. Lack of complete 

 replies makes it impossible to differentiate accurately for those 

 reporting only on the training classes. Information from State 

 Superintendent E. C. Bishop shows that in 1909-10, there were 

 in Nebraska 202 high schools teaching agriculture in the 

 ninth grade, 25 in the tenth grade, 16 in the eleventh 

 grade, and 24 in the twelfth grade, total 267. A few of these 

 schools may and probably do teach agriculture as a general 

 high-school subject, and in the eleventh or twelfth grades for 

 training students only. The returns from Nebraska schools 

 lead to the belief that these figures can be relied upon as sub- 

 stantially correct. 



During the year 1909-10 some seventy local training classes 

 in the State of New York are carrying on work in agriculture 

 in connection with the nature-study. Table i includes none of 

 the New York schools except the very few that have courses in 

 agriculture, or teach it incidentally to the general student. The 



