78 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



The enrollment for the year 1907-8 was 89, distributed as 

 follows : 



One-half of the students are from the township and most of 

 the borough children are of parents who live in town but manage 

 farms they own. About 90 per cent of all the students come 

 under one of these heads, the remaining 10 per cent being chil- 

 dren of merchants, laborers, etc. 



Only I per cent goes to college, though a few have gone to 

 the agricultural college since instruction in agriculture has been 

 introduced into the school. 



Seventy-nine in all were registered in the courses in agricul- 

 ture; 12 in the first-year "plant-life" class, 15 in the second- 

 year " field, orchard, and garden crops " class, including a few 

 fourth-year students who elected it, and 16 in fourth-year agri- 

 cultural chemistry, which had been preceded by the regular third- 

 year class in chemistry, largely demonstrational in its nature. 

 No class in " domestic animals " was in operation on account 

 of the small size of the third-year class. 



The enrollment in these classes taken with the school enroll- 

 ment given above shows the hold that the work has on the stu- 

 dents of all years in the high school. 



The largest single class was the one studying poultry. It was 

 a voluntary study not included in the regular curriculum, and 

 carried on after school because a place could not be found for 

 the subject in the daily program. While this arrangement greatly 

 interfered with systematic work, the interest was well sustained. 

 There were over thirty students in the class, the organization 

 of which was inspired by the addresses on poultry delivered 

 before the farmers' institLite February 21, 1908. Because of 



