CORNELL READING-COURSE I SUPPLEMENT TO 



FOR FARMERS. 



READING-LESSON 

 NO. 6. 



IsMf/cd hy College of AgrieuUnre, Cornell University, 



ItJuica, N. Y., in the months of November, December. APRIL, 1901. 



January, February and March. 



Entered at the Post office, Ithaca, N. Y., as second class 

 matter under act of July, 189U. 



BY JOHN CRAIG. 



Dear Reader : 



You have been studying tlie soil and one of its products, the 

 plant. The farmer's season of study and reflection is over for 

 another year and his period of greatest activity is come. 



Have tliese Lessons on the soil and the plant suggested new 

 methods of managing your flelds, ditferent ways of handling your 

 plants or a more effective plan of maintaining the fertility of the 

 soil? If the V have not done anv of these thino^s, but have ffiven 

 you more interest in the ordinary and sometimes tedious details of 

 farm work, they will not have been issued in vain. 



We hope that you will find knowing the why more valuable than 

 simply knowing the hoio. Given the why, the how conies easily. 

 We hope that the Lessons have interested you as much as your 

 answers have interested ns. AYe have not been able for lack of time 

 and means to acknowledge and comment on each reply but this 

 omission is made up, in part, at least, by the Lesson accompanying 

 this. Compare the answers with your mental picture of those you 

 submitted and in this wav obtain a review of the series. 



It is easy to make plans for next winter, but the prudent man is 

 always forehanded. I wish to speak about our Winter Course in 

 Agriculture for Farmers and their Boys and Girls. This course 

 begins in January and continues for eleven weeks. It is packed full 

 of practical information. It is free to the farmers of the State and 

 cannot fail to prove a wise investment of time for all wdio can so 

 arrange affairs as to allow them to participate in it. Application 

 ])lanks and full information may be had on application to the 

 undersigned. 



(3ne of the objects of the Heading-Course enterprise is to encour- 

 age the spirit of inquiry and investigation in the farmer. To this 

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