. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN STATES. 11 ARITHMETIC. Have the younger pupils count the number of sacks of fertilizer used at home and report this to the teacher. Let the total number of sacks be determined, the total number of pounds for each farm, for the community, and find the average number of pounds used per acre for each farm and for the entire community. Multiply this work to include the cost per acre, per farm, and for the community. For the more advanced pupils develop simple problems on the cost of fert
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. CORRELATING AGRICULTURE IN SOUTHERN STATES. 11 ARITHMETIC. Have the younger pupils count the number of sacks of fertilizer used at home and report this to the teacher. Let the total number of sacks be determined, the total number of pounds for each farm, for the community, and find the average number of pounds used per acre for each farm and for the entire community. Multiply this work to include the cost per acre, per farm, and for the community. For the more advanced pupils develop simple problems on the cost of fertilizing elements taken from the soil by each crop. Prepare statements of problems involving the replacing of fertilizing elements by leguminous and other cover crops and by the use of mold. Problems involving the cost of the elements in various fertilizers as determined by their formulas should be developed. EXCURSIONS AND PRACTICAL WORK. Visits to fertilizer plants, warehouses, etc., for the purpose of observing the mixing processes and of securing the names of the different brands, their formulas, and special uses, should be made. The necessary data for the other correlation exercises should be secured on these trips. Dining this month the school grounds should be laid out and the year's work planned. The plats of the individual pupils in the school and home gardens should be laid out and located during this month. Making stakes and other devices to be. Fig. 1.—Simple seed-germinating devices. used in the school and home gardens should constitute some of the practical work of the month. FEBRUARY. LANGUAGE LESSONS. Conversations on the need, value, and methods of seed testing should be engaged in. For the slightly more advanced pupils oral and written narrations of the steps in making a seed-testing box should be required. Written descriptions of seed-testing boxes should be assigned as work for the still more advanced pupils. Conversations and oral and written statements co
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