40 Agricultural Instruction in tJie Public High Schools 



so, while any one cannot do so in most of the other trades, 

 as most people are effectually prevented from casual partici- 

 pation in them. 



Of the 58 schools reporting agriculture taught in connection 

 with other sciences, 37 have specified the sciences involved, 8 

 or 10 were not asked, and the remaining schools did not reply 

 to the question. 



Table 17 

 Time Given Each Science 



Botany 



Chemistry 



No. of 

 echools 



1 



Min- 

 utes 



1,680 



4,800 

 8^000 



14^400 

 16^200 



Physics 



No. of 

 schools 



Min- 

 utes 



4,800 



10,080 



15,120 

 16,200 



Physical 

 Geography 



No. of 

 echools 



1 

 1 



2 

 2 



1 

 1 

 1 



Zoology 



Min- No. of 

 utes schools 



1,800 

 2,400 



3^600 

 4,000; 



i 



5,040; 



7,200 

 8,000 



1 



Min- 

 utes 



1,680 



4,000 



5^040 

 7,200 



In many of these schools botany and physical geography were 

 the only sciences taught, sometimes only one being given. 



A convenient unit of high-school work is an eighteen-weeks' 

 course, five times a week, forty minutes a day. which totals 

 3,600 minutes. If the study be carried through thirty-six weeks, 

 we should have 7,200 minutes. The number of weeks reported 

 in the several schools varied from twelve to forty ; the number 

 of minutes from 120 to 540 a week; and the time given to work 

 " other than recitation," from 60 to 270 minutes a week. The 

 largest number of minutes of laboratory work is found in 

 schools giving the most time to the subject. 



