special Secondary Schools of Agriculture 139 



The Wisconsin and Michigan County Agricultural Schools 



The county schools of Wisconsin and Michigan stand in a 

 class by themselves, not only in regard to amount of state aid 

 given, but also in the character of the curriculum. They show 

 very few traces of the literary or academic influence. They lack 

 only the large amount of ground possessed by other schools 

 and the farm work entailed to make them the most intensely 

 vocational of all the publicly supported agricultural schools. 

 Taking pupils who for the most part have finished the eighth 

 grade, they plunge immediately into a variety of lines of agri- 

 cultural theory. It is very seldom that we find the students 

 of other schools taking up the various special phases of animal 

 husbandry, such as stock judging and dairying, in the first year. 

 The Guthrie County High School, of Iowa, is the only other 

 important one here recalled that is a public high school. The 



CURRICULUM OF MARATHON COUNTY SCHOOL OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE 



I The letters in parentheses (a, b, and c)' indicate fall term, winter term, and spring term, 



respectively.] 



First Year Periods 



Plant husbandry: (a) Agricultural botany; (b) plant manipulation; 



field crops; (c) fruit growing; (d) gardening 3 (4) 



Animal husbandry: (a) Breeds— dairy and beef cattle; (b) dairy- 

 ing, poultry ; (c) breeds — horses, sheep, swine 3 (4) 



Manual training: (a) Free-hand drawing; (b) joining; (c) cabinet 



making (10) 



English 5 



Greography (a) 5 



Arithmetic (b) 5 



Bookkeeping (c) 5 5 



Seco?id Year ^^ ^^^^ 



Plant husbandry: (a) Soil physics; (b) soil fertility; (c) special crops 3 (4) 

 Animal husbandry: (a) Feeding and breeding; (b) creamery; (c) 



stock farming 3 (4) 



Manual training: (a) Forging; (b) rural architecture; (c) rural engi- 

 neering (10) 



English literature 5 



Chemistry (a) 5 



History (b and c) 5 5 



Class-room work, each year, 16 periods, or lOf hours. ^ ' 



Class-room work, two years, 32 periods, or 21J hours. 

 Laboratory, shop, and field practice, each year, 18 periods, or 12 hours. 

 Laboratory, shop, and field practice, two years, 36 periods, or 24 hours. 



