CORNELL 



R\iral School Leaflet 



[FOR THE TEACHER] 



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

 September to May and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Poet Offlk;e 

 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. 



ITHACA. N. Y., FEBRUARY. 1910 



No. 



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NOTES 



New York State Syllabus. — February is a good month for lessons 

 on germination of seeds, for in March the children will begin to plan 

 their gardens. Lessons on germination are almost valueless unless two 

 things are considered; first, that the work be given with spirit and in- 

 terest on the part of the teacher and in the second place that actual results 

 are obtained. It might be well to precede the lesson on the germina- 

 tion of the pea required by the New York State Syllabus, by having 

 the children make a good museum collection of seeds for the schoolroom. 

 Encourage them to bring in all the different kinds of seeds they can find. 

 These seeds may be mounted on cardboard or placed in bottles and 

 properly labeled. A most interesting oral or written lesson might be 

 given on the shape, size, color, and markings of the different seeds 

 brought by the children. They will probably bring garden seeds and 

 also seeds of some of the wild plants, many of which can be found this 

 month on the old stalks that rise above the snow or still cling to the 

 branches of the trees. 



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