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 agricultural engineering, horticulture, and other
 applied areas.

 2.43-3 Experience in Farming. The teacher of vocational
 agriculture must have a minimum of three years
 of farm experience acquired after 15 years of age.

 2.44 Provisions for Employing Regular Teachers of Vocational
 Agriculture. Regular teachers are employed on a
 twelve-month basis. Counties may approve a teacher's
 absence from his community for a period of not more
 than three weeks to attend summer school for professional
 improvement provided this approval shall not be given
 annually. Teachers shall obtain approval for leave from
 the county board of public instruction, and such approval
 should be officially entered on the board minutes.

 Each county board of public instruction will allow the
 teacher a vacation period not to exceed two calendar
 weeks per year.

 2.45 Official Travel Policy for Teachers, Consultants, and
 Local Coordinators. See Section I, 5. 1.

 2.46 FFA or NFA Activities. FFA or NFA activities are
 accepted as parts of the instructional program.

 Each department of vocational agriculture shall have either
 a chapter of Future Farmers of America or New Farmers
 of America. The teacher of vocational agriculture is
 responsible for the following accomplishments:

 Organizing a chapter and securing a charter
 Securing the necessary paraphernalia
 Seeing that a program of work is planned
 Seeing that regular meetings are held and that
 parliamentary procedure is followed
 Seeing that the adopted program is followed
 Seeing that all chapter records are kept and that
 accurate reports are submitted to the state office.

2.5 Young and Adult Farmer Classes.

 2.51 Provisions for Enrollees.

 2.51-1 Young Farmer Classes. The minimum number of
 pupils for a class will be eight. The minimum age
 for a student will be 16, and the course of study