Rural School Leaflet. 899 



SPECIAL LESSONS 



A FEW MORE SUGGESTIONS FOR CORN DAY 



Arthur W. Gilbert 



Corn Day is near at hand and now is the time to begin final prepara- 

 tion. 



1. Make plans for the decoration of the schoolroom in real corn 

 fashion. Have it as unique as possible. 



2. Send invitations to everyone in your community. Have a draw- 

 ing of an ear of corn, or something to suggest corn, in water colors, on 

 each invitation card. 



3. Arrange for an all-day meeting having the corn show the main 

 feature of the afternoon and exercises by the boys and girls in the even- 

 ing. Get one or two successful farmers in the community to talk to 

 the boys and girls about the best methods of raising good corn. 



4. Let the girls prepare good things to eat from corn products and 

 serve them at one of the meetings. Prizes may be offered for the 

 foods prepared. 



5. Ask the boys and girls to write essays on corn to be read at one of 

 the meetings. 



6. Most important of all — have a good corn show. Ask every boy 

 and girl to bring ten good ears of as many varieties of corn as possible. 

 Arrange these in neat piles each containing ten ears, upon tables that 

 have been decorated. Select the ears carefullj'-, bearing in mind the 

 points which were given in the last number of the Leaflet. Ask a com- 

 mittee of farmers to judge the corn and select the best samples of each 

 variety. Arrange some unique prizes to be given to the winneis for 

 each variety. These prizes need not be expensive. 



7. Send the best samples reduced to six ears each to the Cornell 

 Corn Show, Feb. 7-12, to compete for prizes. Address these to Mr. R. J. 

 Shepard, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. We will pay the express. 



8. Save all of the samples after the show is over, to begin a corn- 

 breeding experiment, the details of which will be given to you in one 

 of the spring numbers of the Leaflets. If you ask to have them returned, 

 we shall return, express prepaid, all samples which you send to the 

 Cornell Corn Show. 



Re-.-acmber that many hundreds of boys' and girls' clubs will celebrate 

 Corn Day this year. Enroll your club with them and try to add new 

 features. 



Write and tell us all about your success, 



