Rural School Leaflet 1093 



not wasted. Moreover, because this ear was well chosen, it produced 

 good com, and an ear of it represented the Broome County school at this 

 year's Farmers' Week. Com Day will mean a great deal more when there 

 are many schools taking the interest shown in this letter. We hope that 

 you will keep track of the ear of com sent by your school this year if 

 any one writes to you about it. Perhaps it won a prize and has been 

 retumed to you. If so, be sure that some one plants it this summer and 

 takes good care of the crop, for seed from such an ear becomes better and 

 better each year. Perhaps you have had a letter from a farmer or another 

 school telling you where your ear of com is. If so, do not fail to keep 

 in touch with them. At any rate, keep track of the com selected from 

 year to year in order that the work you do in selecting good ears on Corn 

 Day may be put to some good use. 



The second idea in Mildred's letter is that her school and the school 

 in Monroe County wrote to each other and became acquainted in this 

 way. For some time we have considered suggesting to schools in the 

 mral districts that they write each year to some schools in other parts 

 of the State. This would be not only interesting, but it would help you 

 to become famiHar with farming conditions in various sections, and you 

 could tell each other about your school and home life. You could also 

 exchange information about the various industries in your locahty and 

 about the geography of the region. 



We shall be glad to introduce your school to some other school if you 

 write us that you would like to have us do so. Should you have any 

 preference for corresponding with a school in a particular county, we shall 

 try to meet your wishes if we can. In writing to us, do not fail to give 

 your district number and township, and the name and address of some 

 one in your school who will be sure to receive the letters, preferably one 

 of the older pupils who is likely to be there during the whole year. All 

 of the pupils in one school should write to all of those in the other for a 

 year. Another school in a different section may be added the second 

 year, and so on. Discuss this matter with your teacher. She will be 

 glad to help in starting the correspondence. 



TO THE OLDER BOYS AND GIRLS 

 There will come a day when you will leave the grades or the rural 

 school, either to go to high school or to go to work. We have been such 

 good friends through the leaflet that it is too bad for us to cease to keep 

 in touch with each other. If you are interested, suppose you send us 

 your name and address for a special list that we will keep, and in return 

 we will write to you occasionally, and send you whatever publications 

 from the College we think would be of interest and of help to you. 



