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CHAPTER VIII 

 COURSES OF STUDY 



The Three and Four Year Courses 



The; county schools of agriculture were originally organized to give 

 instruction in agriculture and domestic science to boys and girls who 

 did not intend to go to college. The courses were planned to last for 

 two years and they were not intended to articulate with those of any 

 other institution. Little of the purely academic work was given. 

 The schools were vocational schools, teaching the subject matter nec- 

 essary for the farming and home vocations with no regard to what the 

 rest of the school system might demand. 



This independent position is now being abandoned. The Milwau- 

 kee County School has not gone so far as some of the others. It still 

 maintains three year courses which do not prepare for college, and in 

 which a majority of the regular students are enrolled, but it has estab- 

 lished four year courses which add to the three year courses sufficient 

 academic work to admit to the university of Wisconsin. The school 

 is now on the accredited list and is subject to the same rules of the uni- 

 versity as apply to other secondary schools in this list. 



The work of the three year agricultural course includes science, 

 agronomy, farm mechanics, botany, dairying, soils, poultry, horticul- 

 ture, animal husbandry, farm accounting, farm management, economic 

 entomology, some practical English, music, civics, American History, 

 bee culture. 



The four year course adds one year of algebra, one year of me- 

 dieval and modern history, one half year of geology, one half year of 

 commercial geography, one year of geometry, one half year of rural 

 economics, one half year of arithmetic, one half year of elementary eco- 

 nomics, and increases English to three years. The subject of Latin is 

 not listed in the catalog but was given in the second term of this year 

 as extra work to a class of seven boys who petitioned for it. 



All of the subjects required in the four year course and not in the 

 three are for the sake of meeting university requirements. The school 

 is adjusting itself to the university. Three out of 121 boys declare 



