88 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



The following table is the result of multiplying the minutes per 

 week by the number of weeks, and gives a truer measure than 

 either of the other tables. No effort was made to learn the 

 times per week the subject was given, as the point would be 

 of but little value, as would also be the length of the recitation. 



Table 20 



Distribution of Schools According to the Total Number of 

 Minutes per Annum Given to Agriculture 



All of these 135 courses run one year or less. 



The most frequent number of minutes in the above schools are: 



2,400 minutes in 8 schools. 



3,200 minutes in 7 schools. 



3,600 minutes in 37 schools. 



4,000-4,050 minutes in 8 schools. 



6,400 minutes in 9 schools. 



Including over half of the 135. 



Cases of 2,400 minutes usually mean 12 weeks of 40 minutes daily recita. 

 tions. 



Cases of 3,200 minutes, 16 weeks of 40 minute recitations. 

 Cases of 3,600 minutes, 18 weeks of 40 minute recitations. 

 Cases of 4,000 minutes, 20 weeks of 40 minute recitations. 

 Cases of 4,050 minutes, 18 weeks of 45 minute recitations. 

 Cases of 6,400 minutes, 32 weeks of 40 minute recitations. 



Relation of Agriculture to the Curriculum and to the 

 Other Sciences in the Curriculum 



No less troublesome a question than that of time, is the place 

 of the study when continued through a single term or year. 



