32 Agricultural Instruction in tlie Public High Sclwols 



the number of high schools adding departments of agriculture, 

 manual training, and home economics in Virginia, had risen 

 to nine. 



Some reports omitted one item and some another, so do not 

 appear in Table 8. The grand totals given below are for all 

 the schools reporting on the several items without regard to 

 whether they reported on every item or only part of them. 

 The number of schools reporting on each item is indicated by 

 the figures in parenthesis. A greater number of cases does 

 not necessarily include all of those reporting on an item showing 

 a smaller number of cases. 



Grand totals for all the schools reporting on any of the above 

 items: Population of districts (i8i), 543,950; enrolled in high 

 school (188), 15,977; enrolled in agriculture (176), 3,726; from 

 farm homes (164), 5,666; total schools, 188. 



These totals include returns from normal training classes 

 in Nebraska high schools that often have other students in 

 agriculture who are not in the training class, and who in some 

 of these cases were not reported. 



For the year ending June 30, 1909, 335 high schools reported 

 to the United States Department of Agriculture, a total enroll- 

 ment of 54,700, with 9,500 in the agricultural classes. 



It will be noticed from Table 8 that the 83 smaller cities and 

 villages, having less population than the 13 larger ones, have 

 two and one-third times as many pupils enrolled in the high 

 schools, four times as many taking agriculture, and report 

 almost three and one-half times as many pupils as being from 

 farm homes. (See Table 10.) The remarkable fact is that the 

 13 larger cities should have even a fifth of their enrollment in 

 the classes in agriculture, especially since Athens, Ga., with a 

 population of 16,000 reports no pupils from farm homes, and 

 Lake Charles, La., also with 16,000, reports but 4 per cent 

 from farm homes. The two cities contain about one-fourth 

 of the 445 pupils enrolled in the agricultural classes in the cities 

 of 4,000 and over. However, the subject is a required one in 

 these high schools, and most of their 103 students in agricul- 

 ture are in the eighth grade, which is usually the first year of 

 high school in the South, instead of the last grade of the 



