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Rural School Leaflet. 



No further care will need to be given to the plats until the barley has 

 headed out, when it should be mown for hay, being cut rather high. 

 The oats and barley should not be allowed to mature, because if allowed 

 to do so they are about as bad for the alfalfa as the weeds which they 

 are designed to displace. 



How soon does the barley come up ? The alfalfa? In about six weeks 

 begin to examine the roots on the different plats for nodules. During 

 the summer, observe the difference in growth on the four different plats; 

 dig up the young alfalfa plants, look for the nodules on the roots, and 

 see whether they occur on the inoculated areas or not, and whether 

 they are more abundant where lime was used. 



The surest way to get alfalfa on a soil that is not especially adapted 

 to it is to manure the soil well, cultivate the soil all spring and 

 summer so as to keep the weeds down, then seed the alfalfa alone about 

 the last of July or the first of August, applying lime and inoculation 

 if these are necessary. This work may be carried on at home, if there 

 is no place for it at school; a farmer living near the school will prob- 

 ably be glad to furnish the land. 



THE RURAL SCHOOL 



"In the rural districts, the school must become a social and intellec- 

 tual centre. It must stand in close relationship with the life and 

 activities of its community. It must not be an institution apart, 

 exotic to the common-day lives; it must teach the common things and 

 put the pupil into sympathetic touch with his own environment." 



— L. H. Bailey. 



