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community are much interested in our work and have offered their 

 places for experimental work. One man came after me the other 

 day and asked me what to do for a horse with an injured knee. 

 Upon examination I found a splint in its first stages, gave a 

 prescription and have received advice that the animal is mending. 

 Another man offered to give me a cow with garget. I told him 

 to keep it, gave him a prescription, and it is also reported improv- 

 ing. A few more successes like these and there will be more field 

 work than I can handle. 



"The spirit of development is in this valley and it is contagious. 

 If you could only visit me you would find conditions as I have 

 stated. The board of trustees have agreed to build an agricul- 

 tural building next year to cost at least ten thousand dollars. 

 They have supplied all the books I requested." 



Conditions at the Oxnard High School resemble those at 

 Imperial. The trustees have provided a good tract of land and a 

 greenhouse. The chief agricultural interests are staple field 

 crops — sugar beets, beans, barley and oats. The teacher has 

 made a specialty of agronomy and it working out a course to 

 extend throughout a school year. The Kern County High 

 School has employed a special teacher of manual training and 

 agriculture. The principal writes: 



"We are introducing the elementary course in the sophomore 

 year and are planning to cover about the ground outlined in 

 Voorhees' "First Principles of Agriculture." We have enough 

 ground for experimental work and the necessary equipment for 

 it. We have introduced with the entering c 1 ass this year an 

 entirely new r scheme of work which will give a proper place to 

 agriculture. In this course we will give them the elementary 

 physical geography, botany and chemistry in the first t\\ T o years 

 with work in horticulture, soils, plant propagation and plant 

 diseases in the third and fourth years. The freshman enrollment 

 this week divided twenty-five to the academic course and fifty to 

 the industrial, a proportion which pleases me very much." 



At the Hanford High School the study of Agriculture has not 

 actually begun but a course will be given during the next half ye^r 

 for students in the senior class who have had proper preparation 

 in natural science. 



There are at least five high schools in California in which 

 agriculture is being definitely taught as correlated or applied 

 science. These are in Gardena (Los Angeles City), Glendale 

 (Los Angeles County), Ventura, Santa Cruz, and Yreka (Siskiyon 

 County) in the extreme north end of the state. A detailed des- 

 cription of the agricultural study done in each of these schools 



