no Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



sugar school, one became principal of a township high school,- 

 another principal of a county agricultural high school, and a 

 third principal of a school of forestry. Seven went into agricul- 

 tural commercial work, six into the state, and eight into the 

 federal government service. Fifty-one were elected instructors 

 in colleges, and one hundred and thirty-eight were elected assist- 

 ants. In many cases it is clear that these are minor officers of 

 administration or of instruction, such as laboratory assistants, 

 etc. ; but in other cases it is not clear that they are not on the 

 staff of the experiment station. The tw^enty-five unclassified 

 men are field agents, experts, or are clearly attached to the ex- 

 periment stations. 



Any one at all conversant with the pittances paid the graduates 

 of classical and literary college courses can readily see the much 

 greater opportunities open to the graduate of the agricultural 

 college. 



The following items indicate that the " plums " do not all 

 go to the men taking higher degrees, and the possession of these 

 degrees does not necessarily assure the best-paying or most 

 desirable positions ; but the figures do show the handicap on 

 public schools desiring even the bachelor graduates of agri- 

 cultural colleges. 



(i) The three best-paying positions, $1,700 in 1907. $1,680 in 

 1908, and $1,800 in 1909, went to men holding only the bachelor's 

 degree. 



(2) Of the fourteen elected to professorships, either full, 

 adjunct, or assistant, but one was a doctor of philosophy, one 

 a master of arts, one a master of science, and two were doctors 

 of veterinary medicine, a degree which probably does not pre- 

 suppose the bachelor's degree. These positions pay from $1,100 

 to $1,600, averaging $1,380. The doctors of philosophy did not 

 fare much better than the others. The four received respectively 

 $1,000, $1,200, $1,200, and $1,600, while the five doctors of 

 veterinary medicine received $1,000, $1,000, $1,200, $1,400. and 

 $1,500. The eighteen holders of master's degrees averaged 

 $1,205, '■ang'"? from $900 to $1,500. 



'A 1909 bachelor of science in agriculture man has just been elected 

 to a normal school professorship. 



