184 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Sclwols 



We need texts in greater variety and better adapted to high- 

 school pupils. 



Trained teachers are scarce and command a higher salary than 

 the rural high school thinks it can afford to pay. W'e must 

 depend largely on giving additional training to teachers already 

 well grounded in science, or with practical farm experience — 

 preferably both. 



Any one responsible for agricultural instruction must have 

 worked out an aim and a philosophy underlying it, and must 

 keep in mind the child, the equipment, and the relation to the 

 community. 



The attitude of the patrons is usually favorable and the interest 

 of the pupils is related, about as one would expect, to the amount 

 of laboratory work, i. e., to the quality of instruction. 



