728 Rural School Leaflet 



Now, on Corn Day each one of you shoiild have ready to take to school 

 the finest ten ears of corn that he can find. They should all be the same 

 kind of corn, and all as nearly alike as possible. A good sample is uniform 

 in size, shape, color, and variety. Make your Corn Day a big day in the 

 school. Decorate the room. Ask your parents and neighbors to come. 

 Have some selections about com read and recited. Have the girls cook 

 and serve some of the corn foods suggested in this Leaflet. Above all, 

 have a good corn show. Get a farmer in the neighborhood to judge the 

 corn and find out who has the best sample of each kind. Learn all you 

 can about corn, and take away with you the feeling that on this same day 

 many other children all over the great State of New York have had a 

 Com Day, too. 



After the exercises are all over, save the prize samples of each kind of 

 corn and send them to us for our Children's Com Show during Farmers' 

 Week, February 19-24. If possible, have the school pay the express, for 

 we have very little money for our work with boys and girls. Address the 

 corn to Edward M. Tuttle, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., and send 

 it before February 15. 



Suppose that all by yourself you had raised the sample of com you take 

 to school on Com Day. Then suppose your sample took first prize. 

 Wouldn't you be pleased! Begin now to get ready to grow your corn 

 sample for next year. Save some good seed. Test it to see whether it 

 sprouts well. Choose a piece of ground, and when spring comes go to 

 work and raise a prize sample for next year. Girls like to grow things as 

 well as boys. There is no reason why that first prize shouild not be won 

 by a girl. 



This is a long letter and it is time for me to stop. Read everything in 

 this Leaflet carefully. I know you will be interested in all that is said 

 about poultry. Perhaps some of you would rather raise chickens than 

 corn. All right. It doesn't make so much difference what you do, but 

 it matters how you do it. When you make up your mind to do a thing, 

 stick to it until it is done in the best way possible. 



Write to me soon, for I am eager to hear all about your work and your 

 play — what you are most interested in, some new thing you have learned, 

 whether you truly love the great, free, open country of which you are a 

 part. You are indeed fortunate to live there, so close to Nature with all 

 its mysteries that are revealed to the patient, reverent seeker. In the 

 next Leaflet I shall write again. By that time I hope you will feel that 

 I am, 



Truly your friend, 



