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Rural School Leaflet. 



NOTES 



]HE last Issue of the Leaflet until September. — The 

 present number of the Cornell Rural School Leaflet 

 will be the last issue for this school year. For 

 many reasons it has been decided that it is best to 

 publish the April and May numbers in one issue 

 this month. One advantage in this is that in dis- 

 tricts in which the schools close in May, the teach- 

 ers will have an opportunity to use the subject 

 matter which completes the year's work as out- 

 lined by the New York State Syllabus. 



Mailing list. — ^We make out the mailing list for 



the teachers in the public schools each year. If 



you desire our publications for the coming year 



and know where you will be located, it will help very much to have 



your name sent to us in June, stating that you wish the Leaflets for 



next year. 



Weeds. — A lesson on weeds can be made very valuable and most 

 interesting to public school children. It should not be given without 

 having specimens in the classroom. The way in which weeds get a 

 foothold in the community has economic importance and the children 

 can have realization of this only by outdoor study. If any teacher is 

 unfamiliar with some of the weeds the children bring into the school- 

 room, we shall be glad to identify them. 



The cow. — In the New York State Syllabus for this year, one of the 

 required subjects is a lesson on the cow. We are giving in this issue 

 a series of lessons from which grade teachers may choose such material 

 as will be suited to their classes. No grade teacher will use all of the 

 subject matter here given ; but we have had so much demand for material 

 along this line from teachers in dairy districts, from teachers in high 

 schools, normal schools and training classes that we have tried to meet 

 the demands of all. It is an additional evidence of the interest in 

 agricultural education that there is a demand for subject matter in 

 dairying. 



For work in the grades, teachers should select a few important features 

 of the lessons given, such as tlie different types of cows, the importance 

 of clean milk, and the like. It will not be wise for the Babcock test to 

 be made in all schools. It is valuable instruction if the teacher knows 

 how to use a Babcock test machine and it will have special value 

 in a dairy district. 



