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large number of cases is due to the fact that some schools report 

 more than one science as preceding agriculture. 



One school reporting botany and zoology, or physics was 

 counted three times. One school reporting agriculture as a 

 fourth year study to be preceded by " any laboratory science," 

 could not be counted in the above table. 



Table 23 



Distribution of Schools According to the Amount of Science 



Preceding Agriculture 



Counted another way the reports show : 



29 schools reported preliminary science. 



70 schools reported 1 preliminary science. 



26 schools reported 2 preliminary sciences. 



11 schools reported 3 preliminary sciences. 



With the possibility of complications due to parallel studies being re- 

 ported as preliminary. 



Table 24 



Distribution of Schools with First-Year Agriculture Preceded 



BY Another Science 



Of those schools having agriculture in the first year Schools 



Biology is reported as preliminary in 1 



Botany is reported as preliminary in 2 



Geology is reported as preliminary in 1 



Physical geography is reported as preliminary in 24 



Physiology is reported as preliminary in 7 



No science reported in 26 



Not reporting ol2 



Total number schools reporting 73 



a Probably most of these schools may be counted as having no science preliminary to 

 agriculture. 



This table indicates (i) how largely botany is a second year 

 study, or (2) how often it follows agriculture in the first year, 

 as it sometimes does, when it is often little more than plant 

 analysis. 



The Teaching Force 



Since the subject of agriculture is new and few teachers are 

 qualified to teach it, we find it handled often by the superin- 

 tendent or principal, i. e., the principal of the entire village or 

 township system, though occasionally by one who has jurisdic- 

 tion of only the high school. The superintendent sometimes takes 



