The Public High School 39 



Thus the five cities with an average of 13 per cent from farm 

 homes have 32,700 inhabitants, over half the total population 

 of the districts tributory to these schools, and 1,047, or more 

 than half of the total enrollment. In striking contrast with 

 this, the remaining 12 schools, in communities with less than 



Table 15 

 Science Work Reported 



Science 



Botany 



Chemistry 



Physics 



Physical geography . 

 Zoology 



Number 

 of times 

 reported 



30 

 10 

 7 

 26 

 10 



20,000 inhabitants, enroll 720 students in their high schools, 

 of whom approximately 460, or 64 per cent, are estimated to 

 be from country homes. But even in the larger cities reporting, 

 the number of families represented who depend for their liveli- 

 hood upon the calling of agriculture is probably as large pro- 



Table 16 



NtJMBEK OF Sciences Reported 



Number of schools Science 



reporting reported 



17 1 



10 2 



77 3 



5 4 



1 5 ^ 



portionally as the number depending on any other single voca- 

 tion. This being so, it deserves at least an incidental treatment 

 in the sciences as truly as do steel making and photography 

 in chemistry, or electric wiring and telephony in physics. Almost 

 any one may have the opportunity to do something, as an 

 amateur, with vegetable and flower gardening, and many do 



