72 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



population of about 18,600. Five of the seven instructors held 

 college degrees. One of the remaining two, Mr. J. I. Thompson, 

 the instructor of agriculture, has since completed his senior 

 year's work in the Iowa State Agricultural College. 



CURRICULUM OF THE GUTHRIE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL 



[a and b, placed after a subject, indicate first and second semester, respectively.] 



Latin course 



Science course 



Agricultural course 



First Year — all courses 

 Arithmetic, Algebra, American history, Civics, English, Latin, Physiology. 



Algebra 



English 



Ancient history (a) 



Mediaeval and Modern 



history (6) 

 Latin 



Algebra (o) 



Plane geometry (6) 



German 



Physics 



Latin 



Arithmetic (a) 



Second Year 



Algebra 



English 



Ancient history (a) 



Mediaeval and Modern 



history (6) 

 Physical geography (a) 

 Botany and 



Bookkeeping (6) 



Third Year 



Algebra (a) 



Plane geometrj* (6) 



German 



Physics 



Geology 



Arithmetic (a) 



Zoology 



Algebra 



English 



Ancient historj' (a) 



Mediaeval and Modern 



history (6) 

 Animal husbandry 

 Agronomy 

 Bookkeeping 



Algebra (a) 



Plane geometry (b) 



German 



Physics 



Geology 



Farm mechanics 



About 50 students were enrolled in the three classes in the 

 agricultural course. Three courses are offered — a Latin course, 

 a science course, and an agricultural course. It will be seen from 

 the appended curriculum that physics is the only science in the 

 Latin course, and that three years of science in the scientific 

 course replace the Latin, and that the agricultural studies replace 



