The Public High School 



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table also omits the numerous high schools in one state that 

 offer a " four-weeks' course " to prepare for the county exam- 

 ination for third-grade certificate. Advices from educators of 

 prominence who have visited nearly all of these schools, made 

 it seem advisable to omit them from the enumeration. Their 

 work is probably less profitable than the same time spent in 

 well conducted laboratory work in botany or chemistry involving 

 the principles underlying scientific agriculture. The official 

 reports of several states credit a number of schools with classes 

 in agriculture while the schools themselves have reported the 



Table 8 

 Data from 151 Comparable Schools Furnishing Complete Information 



Kind of School District 



Cities of 4,000 or more(o) . . 

 Cities and villages less than 



4,000 



Townships (6) 



Counties (c) 



lotal 



Popula- 

 tion 

 served 



118,000 



114,775 



66,225 



161,200 



460,200 



No. 



of 



schools 



13 



83 

 45 

 10 



151 



o Includes "special" or "consolidated" districts composed of a village and imme- 

 diately surrounding territory, usually less than 6 square miles. 



b Includes towns and cities of whatever size, when all are under the same township 

 board and pay the same rate. 



c Includes cities under the same conditions mentioned for townships under (6). 



work as being only " incidental." Since they report little or 

 no experimental work done in the sciences either by pupils or 

 teacher, doubts naturally arise whether any of the science work 

 is worthy of the name. 



During the year 1908-9, 6 Michigan high schools had intro- 

 duced four-year courses in agriculture, 10 more Minnesota 

 high schools had established departments of agriculture, manual 

 training, and home economics, and 34 county high schools were 

 organized in Alabama which will be teaching agriculture within 

 a year or two in order to receive recognition. By 1910, 7 parish 

 (county) high schools in Louisiana had added agricultural de- 

 partments, or were newly established with such departments, and 



