The Public High School 



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been mentioned several times in reports from township high 

 schools that " this is our first year," or second year, as the 

 case might be. 



Table ii shows that in over three- fourths of the schools, the 

 ratio of the enrollment in classes in agriculture to the total high- 

 school enrollment lies between ii per cent and 50 per cent, 

 with a strong " mode " between 21 per cent and 30 per cent, 

 almost one-third of the schools being within this range. 



Table 12 

 Ratio of Students from Farm Homes to Total Enrollment 



Table 12 indicates that over one-half of the schools have 

 between 11 per cent and 50 per cent of their total enrollment 

 made up of pupils from farm homes. The strongly bimodal 

 distribution in Table 12, it will be readily seen, is due to the 

 numerous township high schools that are being so rapidly organ- 

 ized in Ohio, and that are so rapidly introducing agriculture into 

 their course of study. From September, 1906, to November, 

 1908, the number of township high schools reporting to Pro- 

 fessor Graham of Ohio State University that they were doing 

 work in agriculture increased from 10 to 70, and of these the 



