Rural School Leaflet 1015 



Yates County 



1st supervisory district— J. T. Bullock, district superintendent 

 Town of Benton, District 8* 

 Town of Starkey, District 3* 

 Town of Torrey, District 5* 

 2d supervisory district— E. P. Corbit, district superintendent 

 Town of Italy, District 9 

 Unknown, i 



Schools sending one type ^■' 



Schools sending both types g , 



Total schools represented _^ 



Total number of cars ' ^ 



THE GENERAL EXHIBIT FOR FARMERS' WEEK 



Last year many of our boys and girls sent good 

 contributions to the rural school exhibition held 

 at the New York State College of Agriculture 

 during Farmers' Week. There were natural 

 history specimens, collections of weed seeds, 

 collections of woods, specimens of sewing, and 

 many other things that helped to show some of 

 the work that our niral schools are doing. 

 Farmers from all over the State were interested 

 in this exhibit, and many educators who came 

 here to learn what is now being done by rural schools were impressed by 

 the painstaking exhibitions that came from some of our small niral schools. 

 Wc were very proud of this exhibit, and we hope that this \'ear we shall 

 have a larger one. 



One difficulty in taking care of the exhibit last year was due to the fact 

 that some schools sent a great box of material of similar nature. This 

 }-ear we hope you will look over your exhibit material ver>' carefully, 

 and select the best specimen from each of the classes given below. We do 

 not want 3'ou to send anything that you consider of so much value that 

 you would be greatly disturbed if it should be lost. When we huxe 

 thousands of mounts it is not an easy matter to take care of each one. 



We hope that }'our school will look over every one of the classes mentioned 

 for the exhibit, and send at least one contribution. We should not like 

 to feel that yovir school was not represented. You have an opportunity 

 to send thirteen exliibits, but we do not want more than one from each 

 class, as follows: 



1 . One mount of tree specimens. 



2. One bird's nest well mounted, with description and drawing of the 

 species of bird to which it belonged. 



3. One mount of poultry- feathers, accompanied by such description 

 and information regarding these feathers as will present the knowledge 

 gained by the study of them. 



4. One collection of herbaceous plants, collected and mounted by the 

 children. This should be prepared by the school for a school prize. 



