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elementary textbook supplemented by outside reading and obser- 

 vation. " Review B " class, which has a year's work in the common 

 school subjects, has also textbook work in agriculture with a larger 

 amount of outside reading and observation work than the other 

 class. The work of this class in studying seeds is shown in Plate 

 XVIII, figure 2. 



In the regular three-year course of the school the first-year students 

 have a year's work in botany (ecology) . The next year when they are 

 in the middle class their science work consists of experimental garden 

 work with fertilizers and varieties of vegetables and other plants, 

 together with classroom experiments and exercises. The work of one 

 section of this class is shown in Plate XIX, figure 1, where the 

 students are taking notes on the progress of their experiments. The 

 plats in this garden are arranged in groups of G, each plate being 5 

 by 10 feet. In the first group salad turnips and onions were planted; 

 in the second, wheat; in the third, oats; in the fourth, one-half to 

 vetch and oats, and one-half to crimson clover and oats. One extra 

 plat was planted to Canadian peas and crimson clover, and another 

 to lettuce and radishes. The sixth group was a fertilizer experiment 

 with the same plants on all of the plats but a different fertilizer on 

 each as follows: Plat 1, no fertilizer; plat 2, cottonseed meal and 

 muriate of potash ; plat 3, cottonseed meal and acid phosphate ; plat 

 4, muriate of potash and acid phosj^hate; plat 5, a complete fertilizer; 

 and plat 6, barnyard manure. This work is started at the opening of 

 the school in the fall and extends into the winter. The school has 

 about an acre of ground, which has been inclosed for the use of 

 students in this experimental garden work. 



The classroom exercises in elementary agriculture are largely taken 

 from Farmers' Bulletin 408, School Exercises in Plant Production. 

 The students collect the necessary material and perform the lab- 

 oratory experiments. Where experiments with plants are called for 

 the planting of the seed is done in the laboratory, and the pots are 

 then taken to the students' rooms to allow the plants to develop. 

 When results are obtained the plants are brought to the instructor, 

 the work described, and the student given credit. 



In the gardening course the students work by groups and are re- 

 quired to keep full notes and records of work done in their own 

 group and in other groups. They are also given instruction in plan- 

 ning gardens, computing cost of production, mixing fertilizers, bud- 

 ding, grafting, spraying, and in all the common phases of farm work 

 which they are likely to come in contact with in the rural districts. 



The work of the " Diploma C " or senior class is divided into two 

 parts. The first part consists of a study of the rural-life problem as 

 it affects the Nation generally and the State of Georgia particularly. 

 The subject is approached by an investigation of present conditions, 



