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2.41 Provisions for Supervised Farming Program. The
 local administrators will allow the teacher of vocational
 agriculture time to provide instruction and supervision
 of students in supervised farming programs.

 Supervised farming experiences are obtained when the
 student conducts his program on the home farm and has
 complete control by ownership or lease agreement. The
 supervised farming program should include productive
 enterprise projects, improvement projects, and supple-
 mentary farm jobs.

 An individual farming program of satisfactory scope for
 each student must extend over a period of at least six
 months of each year.

 In lieu of adequate facilities on the home farm, teachers
 may approve any one of the following plans as a sub-
 stitute:

 2.41-1 Assistance to the student in gaining satisfactory
 experiences by renting land in the community.

 2.41-2 Provision for experiences on a school farm.

 2.41-3 Placement of the student for farm experiences
 on a farm in the community. The experiences
 must be planned to cover phases of the teaching
 program and must be under the supervision of
 the agriculture teacher.

2.42 Length of Courses and Class Schedules. The minimum
 number of students for a class under no circumstances
 shall be less than nine. The course will be designed to
 meet the needs of persons over 14 years of age. A
 minimum of 500 hours of on-farm instruction per year
 is recommended in connection with the students' super-
 vised farming program. The course for all-day classes
 will be a minimum of three years in length. A four-year
 course of study is recommended and should be conducted
 in the majority of schools. The total hours of instruction
 for the four years will depend upon the plan adopted by
 each high school.

 2.42-1 All-Day Classes. The length of the daily sessions
 and the number of class sessions per week will be
 determined by the plan adopted by each school,
 which may select as a minimum one of the following: