CONTENTS 



Page 



INTRODUCTION i 



CHAPTER I 



Agricultural Education 



A brief historical sketch 4 



Present agencies of agricultural education 8 



CHAPTER II 



The Public High School 



Importance of agricultural instruction in the high school 13 



Types of secondary schools teaching agriculture 14 



Legislation 20 



Statistics of schools teaching agriculture as a separate study 22 



Statistics of schools teaching agriculture incidentally 38 



CHAPTER III 



Some Typical High Schools Teaching Agriculture 



High schools teaching agriculture one year or less 42 



Grove City High School, Ohio 43 



New Holland High School, Ohio 45 



West Milton High School, Ohio 47 



South Lyon High School, Mich 48 



Wayne Township High School, Ohio 50 



Beaver Creek Township High School, Ohio 52 



Riley Township High School, Ohio 53 



St. Louis High School, Mich 55 



Sac City High School, Iowa 56 



High schools teaching agriculture in three or four years 60 



Petersham High School, Mass 60 



John Swaney School, McNabb, 111 64 



Guthrie County High School, Iowa 71 



Waterford Township High School, Pa 75 



High schools teaching agriculture only incidentally 83 



Odell High School, 111 83 



CHAPTER IV 



Administration, Equipment and Methods 



Time given to instruction 85 



Relation of agriculture to the curriculum and to the other sciences 



in the curriculum 88 



The teaching force 92 



Experimentation and field work 95 



Text and reference books 99 



