. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN STATES. 19 This is a good time to hold a public spelling contest. Observe the bird movements which begin soon and keep a bird calendar. (Fig. 4.) Language lessons.—Supervise the writing and sending of seed orders. Have the pupils write out their records and reports with care, making clearness of statement the first aim. Have copies made of some of the best reports and keep them with the files of agricultural literature. Have members of the class write invitations to adults requesting
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN NORTHERN STATES. 19 This is a good time to hold a public spelling contest. Observe the bird movements which begin soon and keep a bird calendar. (Fig. 4.) Language lessons.—Supervise the writing and sending of seed orders. Have the pupils write out their records and reports with care, making clearness of statement the first aim. Have copies made of some of the best reports and keep them with the files of agricultural literature. Have members of the class write invitations to adults requesting them to attend the contests. Have careful reports made of each new proc- ess taken up. Write letters to request new bulletins for spring work. Reading and spelling.—Suggested supplementary readings include Happy the Man—Pope; The Home Song—Longfellow; The Arab to His Steed—Caroline Norton; To a Mouse—Burns; Stories of Morrill, Seaman Knapp, and of other men who have assisted agricultural edu- cation in the Nation or the State. Read some of the most recent laws on this subject. Also use in class Farmers' Buls. 218, The School Garden; 255, The Home Vegetable Garden; 445, Marketing Eggs Through the Creamery; 528, Hints to Poultry Raisers. Pay special. Fig. 4.—Germinating devices for garden seeds. attention to the spelling of words used in the correspondence and reports sent out. Hold spelling contest and use all the farm words possible. Arithmetic.—Practice making invoices, checks, receipts, and other commercial forms involved in farm business. Compute garden areas and lay out to scale the space for each variety of vegetable. Use problems based on egg sales, cost of marketing, and net income. Use the figures obtained in milk testing, compute value of butter fat per hundredweight of milk and total value of milk if 30 cents per hun- dredweight is allowed for skimmed milk. Get the milk records of some of these cows and compute total income. If possible, get feed reco
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