130 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Scliools 



This course gives about 17 periods of, perhaps, 40 minutes 

 each a week, for each of the four years, or 12 hours of class- 

 room work other than agricultural, and about 5 periods, or 35^ 

 hours of industrial work, with 2 hours' work on the experiment 

 station. 



It will thus be seen that these schools act more or less as 

 commercial and finishing schools for their respective districts. 

 Physical and chemical laboratories are specifically mentioned for 

 five schools, school gardens on the campus for three, school 

 gardens and experimental plats on farms near the school in two 

 other cases ; farm dwellings are mentioned in the case of four 

 schools, live stock for six, and barns, or live stock implying 

 barns, in the case of seven schools. One reports a full poultry 

 outfit, and another reports a dairy. The total value of all plants 

 is $222,500. Literary societies are reported by eight schools, 

 and athletic organizations by four, one of these also reporting a 

 military battalion. 



Other items are tabulated below. 



Table 44 



Equipment and Facilities of the Congressional District Schools of 



Alabama 



a Fifteen acres are devoted to the experiment work. 



h The number given is the number of acres cU-votcd to the experiment work. 



c Bulletin of the University of GcorKia, Dec, 1900. p. 14, gives a total of 640 acres. 



