VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 19 



There is now a general movement throughout the country for 

 agricultural education of secondary grade. There are probably 

 not fewer than five hundred secondary schools in which agriculture 

 is now seriously taught. The training varies from the study of 

 an agricultural text book in the hands of the general teacher who 

 does not bring to her task any special training, to the out-and-out 

 vocational school where the teachers are specialists in agriculture. 

 Various territorial and political units for the development of such 

 schools have been adopted. 



Congressional District Agricultural Schools. 



Among the most interesting, from a thorough-going vocational 

 point of view, of the Congressional district schools are those in 

 Georgia. ^Yhile these schools, under the State law establishing 

 them, are branches of the State College of Agriculture, which, in 

 turn, is a department of the University of Georgia, they are not, 

 judged by Northern standards, to be considered college preparatory 

 schools, not even preparatory schools for the usual College of 

 Agriculture. The law distinctly states that the course of study 

 shall be confined to the elementary branches of English education 

 and practical treatises or lectures on agriculture in all its branches 

 and mechanic arts. 



Each school was required to have at least two hundred acres 

 of land. One of the most important sections of the act creating 

 the schools provides that after the first buildings are erected, which 

 shall be only such as are absolutely necessary for temporary use, 

 all work on, in and about these schools, or on the farms or in the 

 shop connected with them, whether it be farming, building, care 

 of stock, or work of different kinds, shall be performed exclusively 

 by the students of these schools under such regulations for the 

 proper division and alternation of the work as may be provided 

 by the trustees. It was desired to encourage the attendance of 

 older men, but even in their cases it has been expressly ruled that 

 no one shall be allowed to enter who does not take the required 

 practical work. "If only literary work is desired, they should 

 go elsewhere." 



