CORNELL 



R\iral ScKool Leaflet 



[FOR BOYS AND GIRLS] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May, and entered as secjnd-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Oifice 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894- L- H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



Professors G. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and C. EDWARD JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 3 ITHACA, N. Y.. JANUARY, 19 10 No. 5 



Celebrate Corn Day, January 28. Send an 

 account of your exercises, telling us about the 

 corn exhibits made by the boys and the foods 

 made from corn products by the girls. Send 

 the exhibit to the College of Agriculture for 

 ^ Farmers' Week, February y to 12. We will 

 J pay expressage and return exhibit if desired. 



LETTER TO BOYS AND GIRLS 



Dear Roys axd Girls: 



It must be pretty cold these days up there on your farm. When 

 you wake in the morning you see lots of frost pictures on the windows, 

 but after you get out of bed you don't look at them long because you 

 are shivering so hard you want to get down by the fire. I hoi>e you 

 like these January days, even though they are cold. Perhaps there ;s 

 no month in which we have so much snow, and snow always gives boys 

 and girls an opportunity to have fun. You can coast and skee and 

 make a snowball as big as a house and a snow man that can put up a 

 ])retty good fight for his life with any January sunlight. And you can 

 crouch down by the fireplace at night and feel as snug and comfortable 

 as the old cat beside you. Then you like to think of the real cold 

 outdoor world. 



Besides having lots of sport in January, we want you to bear in mind 

 that there are things to do on your farm this time of year. The boys 

 and girls of New York State are making an effort to improve the corn 

 crop. In your district you are going t<> do as much as any other district 

 and perhaps more. As a beginning you will celebrate Corn Day, 

 January 28th. Try to have every one in the community come to your 

 school on Corn Day. Learn to know a good ear of com yourself and 



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