96 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



standing in the way of gardening. Seven of the 31 had spent 

 respectively $10, $12, $20, ^2$, $30, $40, and $250. A school 

 board that will introduce agriculture and refuse a moderate 

 amount of apparatus, say $50 worth, will treat the other 

 sciences in the same way. 



Fifty-six schools reported expenditures, loans, and gifts of 

 $4,833. This included a gift of an $800 greenhouse at Petersham, 

 Mass., and $1,000 spent at Dillon, Mont., partly in equipping a 

 blacksmith shop. This leaves $3,033 reported by the remaining 

 54 schools and by Petersham for some apparatus. Eight schools 

 reported $887 for outdoor work, leaving $2,146 reported by 50 

 schools for indoor work, 4 schools reporting on both items. 



Table 29 

 Purposes to Which the Available Funds are Devoted 

 Ihe $2,146 was reported under the following headings: 



By 4 schools, value of loans of sample seeds, apparatus, etc. . . . $207 



By 5 schools, value of gifts, of seeds, apparatus, etc 460 



By 16 schools, money spent for unspecified purposes, probably 



for the same purposes as already mentioned 497 



By 33 schools, money spent for sample seeds, apparatus, etc . . . 982 



$2,146 



Of the above amount $120 was spent for four compound 

 miscroscopes and a balance. Three other items included a Har- 

 vard balance and thermometers. The microscopes are biological 

 apparatus rather than agricultural, while the other articles are 

 as much physical as agricultural apparatus. But when biology 

 and physics are not present in the course of study of the small 

 high school, there is no limit to the degree to which their content 

 may be incorporated into the agricultural course and their ap- 

 paratus appropriated to its purposes. 



54 schools reported no money spent for apparatus other than 

 that used in the other sciences. 



2 reported only home-made apparatus. 



I reported a good equipment for general science. 



I mentioned that a fruit experiment station was near the 

 school. 



I reported $50 spent for apparatus for all the sciences. 



I reported that it could borrow agricultural apparatus. 



I has the use of all kinds of farm machinery handled by the 

 local dealers in farm implements. 



