RuR(\L School Leaflet. 9Sy 



Care of the teeth. — One of the most important things to healthful 

 condition of the human body is care of the teeth. There is much ignor- 

 ance on this subject among adults as well as children. This is par- 

 ticularly true in country districts. Perhaps only through the rural 

 school teacher in some places will the children realzie how important 

 it is for them to take care of their teeth while young. If they realize 

 the fundamental cause of the decay of the teeth and the extremely 

 uncleanly condition which produces it, they will be much more likely 

 to give some attention to this most important matter. If the teacher 

 does not have time to do more than read to the boys and girls the 

 article in this Leaflet and discuss it briefly, it will start the children 

 thinking about the care of their teeth. Teachers would render val- 

 able service by reading the article at a Grange meeting or any meeting 

 of parents in the district. So much suffering and disease, so much 

 discomfort to themselves and others, come from neglected teeth, that 

 the matter should be discussed at least once a year with pupils and 

 parents. 



Cornell contests. — The success of the Cornell contests, announced in the 

 April-May issue of the Boys' and Girls' Leaflet, depends mostly on the 

 teacher. We ask for your co-operation. The boys and girls will need 

 your encouragement if they are to enter any of these contests and we 

 want every able-bodied boy or girl in your school over ten years of 

 age or even younger to enter some of them. It is not the object of these 

 contests to get a few boys and girls to try for prizes, but to get many 

 boys and girls to grow things and to do things. 



Could you use some of your Nature-Study Agriculture periods in 

 talking with the boys and girls about the contests; in discussing with 

 them plans for their gardens or corn or potato fields, and in advising 

 them what to plant and how? 



Then may we ask your further help in another way.' These contests 

 will interest some of the older boys who are in high school or have left 

 school. "We must reach these boys partly through the teachers. Will 

 you then bring this contest to the attention of such boys or send us 

 their names in order that we may do this? 



Corn Day. — We hope to make Corn Day a successful part of our 

 agricultural work in the rural schools. We wish teachers would en- 

 courage all children to grow corn this summer to exhibit at Cornell 

 next year. A report of Com Day 19 lo will be published in the Sep- 

 tember issue of the Cornell Pural School Leaflet. 



