36 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



(2) that work is offered in more than one year of the course, 



(3) that the work is given in alternate years to two classes 

 at once, and (4) that the curriculum of the school is only two 

 or three years long or, what amounts to the same thing, that 

 the school has been organized but one, two, or three years, 

 (i) About three-fifths of the schools reporting on this point 

 require the subject. All of the 60 or more Nebraska high schools 

 maintaining training classes require agricultural work of stu- 



Table U 

 Ratio of Enrollment in Agriculture to Total Enrollment 



dents in those classes, but make it elective for others. As is 

 natural, the smaller the school, such as the new township schools 

 of Ohio, the more certain the subject is to be required of all 

 students. It is usually placed in the first or second years. (See 

 Chapter IV.) (2) Not more than 12 schools included in the 

 full returns offer agricultural courses in more than one year. 

 These are found in all groups and in all sizes of schools. (3) 

 No data are at hand on this point, but such an arrangement 

 of giving the work in alternate years has been reported several 

 times. (4) No accurate data are available, but the fact has 



