Some Typical High Schools Teaching Agriculture 75 



Only a small amount of laboratory work was done in this 

 course, that being mostly in grafting and budding. These stu- 

 dents had all taken botany in their second year. As future 

 classes in horticulture will not have had the botany (see printed 

 curriculum) the work must be modified to include the botanical 

 material necessary to understand the scientific principles under- 

 lying horticultural practice. Xo garden work has been done in 

 connection with the school work. Nor has any close correla- 

 tion been worked out between such sciences as physics, geology, 

 or physical geography, and the agriculture. That is, no agri- 

 cultural content has consciously been put into those subjects. 



The high-school board is composed of seven members, the 

 county superintendent being president. The principal, H. E. 

 Ilsley, M. S., has had considerable training in science and is 

 making an efifort to strengthen the science work as much as 

 possible. The science work is in charge of the assistant prin- 

 cipal, C. L. Cose, B. S. Much attention has been paid to the 

 humanities as shown by the well selected school library of 

 2.000 volumes. The attitude of those in charge on the ques- 

 tion of education for citizenship is shown, not only by the 

 inclusion of political economy, history, and modern foreign lan- 

 guage in the agriculture course, but also by the solicitude shown 

 for the farmers' children — that none should be deprived of the 

 best culture of our civilization, nor be made thus to feel any 

 class distinction. A casual inspection of the course here printed 

 will show how earnest an efifort has been made to include those 

 elements of a general course that are supposed to give a broad 

 outlook, and to make the course at the same time truly prac- 

 tical from the agricultural standpoint. The large proportion (90 

 per cent) of pupils from families living on farms or especially 

 interested in them shows the importance of such a view of the 

 curriculum. 



VVaterford (Pa.) Township High School 



In rather marked contrast with the last two schools, with 

 plenty of modern equipment and located in rich farming com- 

 munities using the most up-to-date machinery, is the high school 

 at Waterford borough and township, in Erie County, Pennsyl- 

 vania. The township contains much good farming land, sup- 



