Preparation and Salaries of Teachers in High Schools 107 



Table 40 



Salaries of Teachers Paid More Because of Ability to Teach 

 Agriculture in the High School 



Average of the first 14, $779.20. Average for 14, $25. 



Average for 14, 

 22 per cent. 



a $1,600 was paid for one year to an agriculturist with teaching experience to organize 

 a county high school with agriculture as the prominent feature, but his successors have 

 received probably less than half that amount. 



The foregoing table includes only those reported to be getting 

 more on account of teaching agriculture, whether they happened 

 to be trained agriculturists or not. Perhaps a better idea of the 

 market value of the agriculture teacher may be gained by con- 

 sidering the absolute salaries paid the men trained for this work, 

 in the public high school, and in others approximating the type. 

 The following table is based on data from 7 of the congressional 

 district schools of Alabama, 3 of the new state agricultural and 

 normal training schools of Virginia, the 4 county agricultural 

 schools of Wisconsin, 15 county high schools, 4 township high 

 schools, 6 village high schools, and i state school in California. 



The Alabama, Virginia, and Wisconsin special schools are 

 each represented by one man, the only distinctive agriculturists 

 in the schools, which differ in this respect from the Georgia, 

 Minnesota, and California special schools. In the Wisconsin 

 schools, special teachers of domestic science and of manual 

 training receive from $800 to $1,200. 



