I20 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



a department of the University of Georgia," and that " the 

 general board of trustees of the university shall exercise such 

 supervision as in their judgment may be necessary to secure 

 unity of plan and efficiency in said schools." 



The local boards of trustees consist of one member from 

 each county of the respective congressional districts, appointed 

 by the governor for a term of six years. The schools receive 

 the income from the fertilizer, oil, and other inspection fees, 

 over and above the expense of such inspections. This amounted 

 in 1909 to $7,250 annually for each school. In addition to this 

 amount the legislature voted a grant of $2,000 to each school, 

 making the total $9,250. The students are charged no fees for 

 tuition, laboratory, library privileges or incidentals. They buy 

 their own books at an average cost of $7.50 a year. Their board 

 amounts to $10 a month, with a rebate of $5 for farm work 

 performed according to the requirements of the course of study. 

 The local communities provide the necesary land, buildings, and 

 equipment. The location of these schools is shown in Table 44. 



The Oklahoma schools of agriculture are under the general 

 management of a " state commission of agricultural and indus- 

 trial education," consisting of the state superintendent of public 

 instruction, the president of the state board of agriculture, and 

 the president of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege. The state board of agriculture exercises a general over- 

 sight of these schools, while their work is under the more 

 immediate direction of a dean of the department of district 

 agricultural schools, attached to the college. A condition of the 

 location of the schools is that they " shall be provided with not 

 less than 80 acres of land without cost to the state and deeded 

 in perpetuity to the state. All white citizens over fifteen years 

 of age are entitled to admission without entrance examination 

 or fees." As a consequence of this statutory provision the 

 schools carried on sixth, seventh, and eighth grade work, during 

 the first year with as many as thirty in a class. The work of 

 the secondary grade extends over three years, and offers nothing 

 besides the purely industrial courses and related science, except 

 in mathematics, English, civics, and history. One-fourth of the 

 $20,000 appropriated for building and maintenance the first 



