Rural School Leaflet. 887 



and girls take a real interest in this day and invite their parents to attend 

 the Corn Day exercises, greater interest in the crop will be developed 

 from year to year. At the New York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University we are watching school districts to see what is being 

 done in each for awakening interest in the betterment of agriculture. 

 Will your school district stand among the first? 



In the Teachers' Leaflet for this month Dr. Arthur W. Gilbert has 

 given directions for judging corn. Ask your teacher to discuss this 

 article with you and leave it on her desk where you can get it to read 

 when you finish your required work. Then begin at once to make your 

 selection of corn for the Corn Day Exhibit. Note that Dr. Gilbert 

 gives seven things for you to notice in selecting the ears of corn: i. 

 Shape of cars; 2. Butts of ears; 3. Til>s of ears; 4. Shape of kernels; 

 5. Proportion betzceen corn and cob; 6. Color of corn and cob; 7. Triie- 

 vess to type. Ask your teacher to help you to judge each one of these 

 th.ings in connection with an ear of corn. 



2\'ow I am wondering whether you are going home tonight without 

 taking the least interest in having a Corn Exhibit or whether you are 

 going home full of enthusiasm for the best exhibit possible in your school- 

 room on January 28th. I like to think I can see farm boys and girls 

 hurrxing home, and going out to the corn crib to do this one thing 

 that you have been asked to do. I believe you will write me about 

 it later and I will mark on my map your home district as one in which 

 the boys and girls are the kind of young persons that can think and act. 

 Do net fail nic in ibis. I shall be disappointed if there is not a Corn 

 Day in yfvj.r district. 



And then I wonder whether you are going to be ready to send your 

 Corn Exliibit to the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University for Farmers' Week, February 7-12? There may be farmers 

 here from your district and they will be interested in the exhibit you 

 send. To each school that sends us an exhibit of corn we shall send a 

 picture suitable for framing and hanging in the schoolroom. 



Then there is another thing. The girls are going to prepare some 

 foods made from corn products. We want them to write us about their 

 exhibits and perhaps some of these exhibits can be sent to Cornell for 

 Farmers' Week. 



Remember we are looking to your district for some energetic work 

 on this occasion. We hope someone in the community will olfer prizes 

 for the best ears of corn and the best foods from corn products. 



