98 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



in the technical agriciihural high schools. The accompanying 

 table gives a notion of this indoor work. 



Table 31 



Amount of Experimentation Work 



106 schools report doing practically all the experiments in the text or manual 

 used. 

 47 schools report doing experiments outside of text. 



26 schools report doing " a few," " some," or " not many " experiments. 

 46 schools report doing unspecified laboratory work, (a) 



14 schools report doing no laboratory work. 



10 schools omitted this item on blanks filled out. (6) 



a These were reported on preliminary postal card inquiries, no fuller data being later 

 supplied. . 



6 To these lo should be added as many more schools whose prelunmary report mdicates 

 such poor work that no further inquiry was made. 



Only four schools reported the amount expended on gardens. 

 $40 for land, $5 and $250 for tools, and $260 for garden, total 



$555- 



Table 32 



Who Performed the Experiments 



18 schools report the work done chiefly by the pupils individually. 

 18 schools report the work done chiefly by the pupils in groups. 

 32 schools report the work chiefly demonstrated by the teacher. 



15 report the work done equally by pupils individually and in groups. 



14 schools report the work done equally by the pupils individually and 



the teacher. 

 23 schools report the work done equally by the pupils in groups and by 



the teacher. 

 12 schools report the work done by all three. 



132 reporting on this point. The others did not report or did no laboratory 

 work. 



Three schools report lack of land as their chief difficulty, 

 2 report lack of gardens, 2 lack facilities for outdoor practice, 

 and I the inability to get land on a long lease, a total of S 

 reporting their chief difficulties along these similar lines. 



Table 33 



Schools Reporting Garden Work 



28 schools report school gardens without qualifications. 

 9 schools report school gardens for training class (Nebraska). 

 6 schools re{)ort " a little " or " irregular " gardening done, mostly with, 

 flowers. 

 160 schools report " none " or fail to report. 

 35 schools report " home gardens " without qualifications. 



1 school rejiorts " home garden " for training class (Nebraska). 

 74 echools report " none." 



