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An effort was made in this investigation to learn the important 

 local industries that " fit in " well with the agriculture of the 

 school and that are interesting to the pupils. While a detailed 

 classification would include more than thirty headings, the an- 

 swers may be roughly grouped under the seven given below. 

 Those from the high schools are kept separate from those of 

 the normal training classes as in the last table. 



Table 53 



Principal Industries of the Communities Supporting Agricul- 

 tural Courses 



(Twenty of the thirty-one training schools not mentioning this point were New York 

 schools. ) 



One of the most important of the teaching problems concerns 

 the relative degree of difficulty of the various topics usually 

 presented to high-school pupils. The correspondents were asked 

 to name the agricultural topics giving them the most concern. 

 It is a matter of regret that the number of responses on this 

 point is so much smaller than on most others. The following 

 replies represent 55 high schools. The few who complained of 

 the difficulty of teaching anything requiring laboratory work may 

 be dismissed from further consideration. For convenience, the 

 points are arranged under four general headings. 



