Preparation and Salaries of Teachers in High Schools iii 



The eight men entering the service of the United States Gov- 

 ernment averaged $1,230, ranging from $840 to $1,400. 



It must be remembered, however, that some of these men, 

 while graduating from land-grant colleges may have taken gen- 

 eral science courses and not courses leading to the degree of 

 bachelor of science in agriculture. It would seem that many 

 of them have done so. 



Inquiry made of agricultural college officials revealed the 

 names of very few graduates who had entered public school 

 work. Replies from most of the forty-two whose addresses were 

 obtained showed that only four were then teaching and that not 

 more than three or four others had taught. These college 

 officials and graduates were asked to estimate roughly the salaries 

 high schools must offer to attract the services of agricultural 

 college graduates as principals or as science teachers. Twenty 

 of the former and fifteen of the latter responded. For principal- 

 ships the estimates were $700 to $1,600 and $600 to $1,500 

 respectively ; for assistantships, $600 to $1,200 and $500 to $1,200 

 respectively. It will be noticed that there was little difference 

 in the estimates, but that the range is so wide as to make them 

 of little value to a school board in doubt about the probable 

 cost of such services. No distinction could be made between 

 the northern and southern states ; but the eastern states, as a 

 group, showed by far the lowest estimates. 



Provisions for the Higher Training of Teachers of 



Agriculture 



Many advances have been made in the way of preparing 

 teachers to meet the new demands for agricultural instruction 

 since Dean Bailey's report^ of two years ago. Since then the 

 number of colleges providing teachers' courses of from one to 

 four years in length has at least doubled. 



While the courses provided for in the regular college curricu- 

 lum must be depended upon to furnish a substantial foundation 

 for the teacher's preparation in the long run, a more important 

 movement, from the standpoint of immediate results, has been 



' L. H. Bailey, Bulletin 380, Bureau of Education, On the Training 

 of Persons to Teach Agriculture in the Public Schools, 1908. 



