42 ADMISSION TO COLLEGE 



sub-topics as may be correctly included under horticulture, farm crops, 

 forestry, and soils and their relations to plant production. 



Animal industry will include the subject of breeds of farm animals, 

 animal nutrition, animal feeding, care, and improvement. It will include 

 the study of poultry and dairying as special topics, with such attention to 

 bees, birds, and insects as belongs under the topic of Animal Industry 

 as related to agricultural interests. 



General agriculture will include the study of topics under farm man- 

 agement, farm engineering, rural economics, rural sociology, and rural 

 organization; also such units in animal and plant industry as may be in- 

 cluded. 



Rural economics will include history of agriculture in the United States; 

 crop and stock relationship ; markets ; rural organizations, such as rural 

 church, rural school, and rural club; land tenure; farm labor; farm 

 records; and rural community problems as related to the economic and 

 social conditions of rural life. 



2. ASTRONOMY, y 2 unit. 



3. BOTANY, y 2 to 1 unit. 



The aim in the study of botany in the high school course should be to 

 make the pupils familiar with the local flora. Outdoor work is to be em- 

 phasized, especially in its economic aspects. Students cannot be too fa- 

 miliar with the ordinary facts of their surroundings; and the habit of 

 accurately observing and then carefully recording what is discoverable in 

 the outdoor world should be established from the outset. A carefully kept 

 notebook, containing notes of all sorts concerning plants studied, their 

 characteristics, conditions of growth and dispersal, time of flowering and 

 fruiting, is essential in all natural history work. A herbarium prepared 

 by the student is generally impracticable and is not recommended. The 

 economic phases of botanical science should be particularly heeded and 

 the attention of the student, especially in our more rural communities, 

 should be constantly- directed to the relations of plants to each other, 

 whether for advantage or the reverse. 



The high school should offer laboratory work along with Leavitt's 

 Lessons, or Bergen & Davis' "Principles of Botany," or Coulter's "Text- 

 Book of Botany," or any other work covering the same general ground. 



The minimum amount of work for preparatory credit is the equivalent 

 of five recitations or exercises a week for one-half the year. If the 

 teacher is well prepared and opportunity offers, the work may extend 

 through the entire year. Ordinarily work in botany should come in the 

 first or second year in the high school course. 



4. CHEMISTRY, 1 unit. 



This is a profitable secondary school study if properly taught, but 

 it should not be offered unless laboratory facilities are adequate. As in 

 physics, double laboratory periods are essential to good work. 



Chemistry should come in the last year of the high school, or the 

 last but one. An-entire year should be devoted to the subject; no entrance 



