37-27-19 - Standards of schools.
§ 37-27-19. Standards of schools.
The main purpose for an agricultural high school being to teach theoretical and practical agriculture and home economics, and to be a real service to the farmers of the county, any school failing to come up to the following standards shall be dropped from the list of approved agricultural high schools by the state board of education:
(a) Each school shall own and operate a dairy sufficiently large to furnish milk and butter necessary for use in the dormitories.
(b) Each school shall own and operate an approved poultry farm with one or more breeds of chickens, the minimum of which shall be one hundred hens.
(c) There shall be in every school a model orchard with a minimum of one acre demonstrating correct methods of planting, cultivating, pruning and propagation of orchard plants.
(d) There shall be in every school a model garden sufficiently large to furnish vegetables to the boarders. The minimum acreage for vegetables and truck crops shall be one acre for each twenty boarders.
(e) A sufficient number of pure-bred hogs shall be kept for teaching and demonstrating purposes.
(f) Plots of land shall be cultivated on the school farm demonstrating the yield per acre and the best method of cultivation of such crops as cotton, corn, sugar cane, potatoes, etc., suitable to the different sections of the state.
(g) Students shall be required to take part in the work thus outlined for the specific purposes of encouraging farm life in Mississippi and acquiring a practical knowledge of the same.
(h) Schools shall do such extension work and shall maintain such agricultural and home science laboratory equipment as may be prescribed by the state board of education.
(i) The sciences and other subjects taught in the agricultural high school shall be connected vitally with the social and economic life of the school and county.
(j) Each school is required to have a minimum of one-eighth of an acre of ground set apart as a vegetable garden for use of the home economics department of the school.
(k) Each school is required to own and operate an incubator for the teaching of poultrying in the home economics department of the school.
(l) Each school must provide means for the laundering of plain clothes for the boarding students.
(m) Each school is required to own a modern canning outfit for the use of the school, and for demonstration work in the communities of the county.
(n) Each girl boarding in the dormitory of these schools must do five hours per week of practical work.
(o) All girls who graduate from an agricultural high school must demonstrate their ability to make their own clothes, prepare and serve meals, and do other things necessary to ordinary household management.
The state superintendent of public education shall enforce the above-named standards. All expenses necessary thereto shall be paid out of the agricultural high school appropriations, not exceeding the sum of seven thousand five hundred ($7,500.00) dollars in any scholastic year for the following: supervisor's salary not to exceed four thousand ($4,000.00) dollars per annum; secretarial work not to exceed one thousand five hundred ($1,500.00) dollars per annum; supervisor's traveling expenses not to exceed one thousand two hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum; stamps, telephone, telegraph, stationery and all other office supplies and expenses not to exceed one thousand ($1,000) dollars per annum.
Sources: Codes, 1930, § 6680; 1942, § 6460; Laws, 1926, ch. 326; Laws, 1928, ch. 293; Laws, 1930, ch. 278; Laws, 1938, ch. 218.