34 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



in the case of all of the counties, a ratio almost as low as in 

 cities of over 8,000 in regard to total enrollment, and lower 

 in regard to enrollment in the agricultural classes. The low 

 percentage of attendance may be due to the distance the pupils 

 must travel if they do not board away from home. The low 

 percentage of the agricultural classes would seem to indicate 

 the determination of the pupils to get away from the farm. 



Table 9 

 Comparative Data for 151 Schools 



a One is a township containing the county seat and a state normal school. 



These ratios would be more instructive if statistics of the attend- 

 ance of boys and girls could be separated. The tables certainly 

 furnish a strong argument for those who would strengthen the 

 village and township high schools along agricultural lines. The 

 argument may be more valid for the richer and more populous 

 states than for others with a public high-school system less fully 

 developed. 



The tables show, as one might naturally suppose, that most 

 of the country children found in high schools are in those of 



