The Secondary Vocational Agriculture Curriculum from 1890 to 1980.

In the novel Moon Val ley, wr i t ten by John F. Case in 1932, the tr ials and tr ibulat ions of a young col lege graduate named Tom Woodson returning to his home community to teach vocat ional agriculture are chronicled. One of the f irst tasks faced by young Woodson was to organize the curr iculum. C a s e (p. 49) w r i t e s , “Contrary to the frequent pract ice of taking up animal husbandry work in the beginning of the vocat ional agr icul ture instruct ion, Tom Woodson had decided upon crop projects."