I40 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



Marathon and Dunn County schools were the first estab- 

 lished. Their courses of study may be taken as typical of all, 

 the differences being merely in minor changes in the position of 

 dift'erent branches. The curriculum of the Marathon County 

 school is given in full, because it needs less changing than the 

 others in order to make it comparable with other curricula given. 



The following percentages show what proportion the class- 

 room work in agriculture and related science is of the total 

 class-room work, and what proportion all the agricultural work 

 is of the total time required of the student in the class-room, 

 laboratory, shop and field : Proportion of class-room work in 

 each year, 37 per cent; proportion of all the time in each year, 

 71 per cent. 



While practically the same subject matter is included in the 



Dunn County school's course of study, it is broken up into 



smaller units and scheduled fewer times a week. They are 



arranged with reference to four terms of eight weeks each. 



Below are given the percentages of the time occupied by the 



agricultural subjects, with a sample program for one of the 



eight terms. 



Table 48 



Time Given to Agriculture in Proportion to Other School Work 



Program of the Dunn County School for the Third Term of the 



Second Year 



Literature 



Library readinj;; . 

 Hogs. 



Periods 



2 



2 



3 



Seeds and germination, green house 1 



Shrubs, trees, and planting 3 



Birds and insects 2 



Eiiiergencies 4 



Creamery practice 2 



