. The corn lady; the story of a country teacher's work. rk. I had them take their workhome when it was completed, and I heardmany good words about it. Best of all, Isaw that most of the farmers had pickedtheir seed corn carefully from the strongeststalks in the field and hung it up; not wait-ing to throw out the best ears from thewagons after the freezing weather had killedmuch of it. In geography, we have drawn maps ofall the farms, showing the fields and whathad been planted in each for the past fouryears. In connection with this, we had somestudy of soils and considered the importanceof cro
. The corn lady; the story of a country teacher's work. rk. I had them take their workhome when it was completed, and I heardmany good words about it. Best of all, Isaw that most of the farmers had pickedtheir seed corn carefully from the strongeststalks in the field and hung it up; not wait-ing to throw out the best ears from thewagons after the freezing weather had killedmuch of it. In geography, we have drawn maps ofall the farms, showing the fields and whathad been planted in each for the past fouryears. In connection with this, we had somestudy of soils and considered the importanceof crop rotations in keeping the soil of the boys brought some alfalfa and weexamined the little tubercles that draw thenitrogen into the soil from the air. Someof the fields in this district have been plantedto corn for the last ten years, because cornis the money crop as they call it; yet the THE CORN LADY 33 farmers who do this seem to he making huthttle money. We have drawn maps of the township, in-dicating the amount of products along every. LOOKING FOR SEED EARS line, as shown in the assessors books at thecounty auditors office. Then we drew thecounty, showing the banner townships forcorn, oats, hay, wheat, alfalfa, apples and 34 THE CORN LADY other f iTiit. And we did the same thing withthe state, showing the banner counties. I wish you could come and see us. Weare having the best school—and its a coun-try school, too. I think in its strength—itsopen-heartedness—its wholesome spirit—and in the things we are learning, you wouldknow that it belonged with broad fields andcountry freedom. I tell 3^ou it is great fun to ])e just A Country Teachek. THE CORN LADY 35 Wheaton, Iowa, December 4y 1910 Dearest D/VDDy:—There is so much totell that I hardly know where to begin. ButI think youd like best to hear about ourFarm and Home Day. As it came alongtoward the end of November, the childrenwere all wishing for a program. We talkedit over and decided that we would h
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