Administration, Equipment, and Methods loi 



the texts in question as " kindergarten books," or expressed in 

 other terms the idea that the pupils craved something more suited 

 to their capacities. - 



Two hundred thirty-three high schools or teachers' training 

 classes, most of them in high schools, reported the name of one 

 text each, lo reported that none was used, 8 reported that 

 " several " were used, 15 omitted this item from reports other- 

 wise rather complete, and 56 schools sending in very incomplete 

 reports omitted this item. 



Fifty titles were reported as reference books 141 times in all. 

 Of these, 8 were public school texts, reported 47 times, 5 of 

 which were grammar school texts, reported 24 times. 



Table 35 

 Books Reported as References Five Times or More 



Author and title 



Bailey: Principles of Agriculture 



Burkett, Stevens & Hill: Agriculture for Beginners. 



Goff & Mayne: First Principles of Agriculture 



Goodrich : First Book of Farming 



Hunt : Cereals of America 



James: Agriculture 



King: The Soil 



(unspecified) 



Roberts: The Fertility of the Land 



Times reported 



17 

 8 

 7 

 5 

 7 

 5 

 8 

 4 

 5 



Farmers' bulletin 44 was reported 6 times, while bulletins 22 and 28 were 

 reported 5 times each. Office of Experiment Stations bulletin 186 (now 

 superseded by Farmers' bulletins 408 and 409) was reported many times 

 as text, reference, and laboratory manual. 



^According to a report by G. A. Bricker on high schools in Ohio 

 teaching agriculture in 1910-1911, issued as this work is going to press, 

 the texts used in 243 high schools were as follows : Bailey, 8 ; Byrkett, 

 Stevens and Hill, 56; Goff and Mayne, 30; Jackson and Daugherty. 26; 

 Warren, 60; Wilkinson, 55; five others, 8. The last two named have 

 been issued since receipt of the replies from which Table 34 was com- 

 piled. Warren's text has also been introduced into a large number of 

 schools offering agriculture in the upper years of the curriculum. 



