APPENDIX A 



LEGISLATION PERTAINING TO AGRICULTURAL IN- 

 STRUCTION IN PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS 



An examination of the school laws of a large number of 

 states, most of them as late as 1907 or 1908, fails to show many 

 specific references to the teaching of agriculture in the general 

 public high school. A few important laws on this subject were 

 passed during the sessions of 1908 and 1909. 



In Kansas, county high schools may be established subject to 

 certain restrictions, among others that " their course of study 

 shall be four years in length, and shall be such as will prepare 

 for entrance to the freshman year of the college of liberal arts 

 of the state university, of the agricultural college, or to the pro- 

 fessional course of the normal school."^ It would seem that 

 the requirement to teach agricultural branches in the county high 

 schools depends on the entrance requirements established by 

 the agricultural college, unless the law be construed to mean 

 that the agricultural college must take the students who have 

 pursued the course taught in schools that " use the course of 

 study laid down by the state board." (Sec. 185.) 



In Maine we find that " the course of study in the free high 

 schools shall embrace the ordinary English academic studies 

 which are taught in secondary schools, especially the natural 

 sciences in their application to mechanics, manufacture, and 

 agriculture. . . ."^ But so far as learned, nothing per- 

 taining to agriculture is taught in a way to make the relation 

 with the natural sciences apparent. The legislature in 1907 

 made an appropriation of $500 a year to high schools and 

 academies that would put in a course in agriculture.'' Several 



1 Laws Relating to the Common Schools of Kansas, 1907, Sec. 177. 

 ^ Laws of Maine Relating to Public Schools, 1905, p. 21. 

 ^ Chap. 78, March 20, 1907, amending Sec. 6, Chap. 148, Acts 1901. 

 (Sec. 81, Chap. 15, Maine Revised Statutes, 1903.) 



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