. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. The Teaching of Nature-Sttidy 21 NATURE-STUDY AND AGRICULTURE plUCKILY, thumb-rule agriculture is being pushed to the wall in these enlightened days. Thumb rules would work much better if nature did not vary her performances in such a confusing way. Government experiment stations were established because thumb rules for farming were unreliable and disappointing; and all the work of all the experiment stations has been simply ad- vanced nature-study and its application to the prac- tic
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. The Teaching of Nature-Sttidy 21 NATURE-STUDY AND AGRICULTURE plUCKILY, thumb-rule agriculture is being pushed to the wall in these enlightened days. Thumb rules would work much better if nature did not vary her performances in such a confusing way. Government experiment stations were established because thumb rules for farming were unreliable and disappointing; and all the work of all the experiment stations has been simply ad- vanced nature-study and its application to the prac- tice of agriculture. Both nature-study and agriculture are based upon the study of life and the physical conditions which encourage or limit life; this is known to the world as the study of the natural sciences; and if we see clearly the relation of nature-study to science, we may understand better the relation of nature-study to agriculture, which is based upon the sciences. Nature-study is science brought home. It is a knowledge of botany, zoology and geology as illustrated in the dooryard, the corn-field or the woods back of the house. Some people have an idea that to know these sciences one must go to college; they do not understand that nature has furnished the material and laboratories on every farm in the land. Thus, by beginning with the child in nature-study we take him to the laboratory of the wood or garden, the roadside or the field, and his materials are the wild flowers or the weeds, or the insects that visit the golden-rod or the bird that sings in the maple tree, or the woodchuck whistling in the pas- ture. The child begins to study living things anywhere or everywhere, and his progress is always along the various tracks laid down by the laws of life, along which his work as an agriculturist must always progress if it is to be successful. The child through nature-study learns the way a plant grows, whether it be an oak, a turnip or a pigweed; he learns how the root
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