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Rural School Leaflet. 



14. Have a school fair. These have been found very successful 

 where tried. Children exhibit products from their own gardens. The 

 girls exhibit cakes, pies, biscuits, and the like, which they have made. 

 Small prizes are given. The people of the district are invited and the 

 fair is made one of the important social events of the district. It will 

 probably be found that the older people will enter enthusiastically into 

 a competition of their own and if this can be arranged, it will add greatly 

 to the success of the fair. 



15. Take occasional trips to neighboring farms, to the woods and 

 fields. See Cornell Rural School Leaflet; Cornell Nature-Study Bul- 

 letins. 



A $40.00 EQUIPMENT FOR A RURAL SCHOOL 



I Babcock Milk Test $5 . 00 



I Tripod Lens Magnifying Glass 75 



I Set Seeds, Feeds and Fertilizers, Bureau of Nature- 

 Study, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y i .00 



I Terrarium 125 



I Thermometer 25 



Miscellaneous'^ 



J doz. pint Mason fruit- jars 



J doz. plates 



J doz. pie tins 



3 pans 



2 wooden pails. 

 I iron spoon . . . 



30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 30 

 15 



Supplies 



Sulfuric acid for Babcock test; copper sulfate and lime 

 for Bordeaux Mixture; soils, fertilizers, postage, etc., 

 etc 3 



40 



*i3-3o 



Books for Library 



Traveling Library — Division of Educational Extension, 

 N. Y. State Education Dept., Albany, N. Y., 50 

 volumes, loaned for the school year $3 ■ 00 



Burkett, Stevens & Hill — Agriculture for Beginners, 



Ginn & Co., Boston 75 



*These articles can be used for various purposes: Collecting specimens, samples 

 of soils, germinating seeds, and the like. 



