6o6 Reading-Course for Farmers' Wives. 



III. Concluding Program. 

 Current Topics. 



How can we best improve the management of our local 

 government ? 



Light Refreshments. 



Second March Meeting. 



Nature — The Trees. 



I. Introductory Exercises. 



Quotation, by the President — 



"And God said, Behold, I have given you ez'cry herb hearing 



seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the 



zvhich is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall he for 



meat." 

 Quotations, on Nature by Members. 

 Reading — The Life History of a Maple, Page 3, Among Green 



Trees. 

 Discussion. 



1. The trees of the school grounds or church yard. What 



can be done to improve them ? 



2. Where more trees are needed. 



3. What trees should be cut down. 



4. Destroying the trees for electric wires. Is it wise? 



II. Main program. 



A. For First Year Readers, TJie Floivcr-Gardcn. 



1. Consider last half of questions on discussion paper. 



2. Discuss the advisability of offering the children a prize 



for the best plants or flowers raised by them. 



3. Have the secretary correspond with the State College of 



Agriculture for helps on Children's Gardens. 



B. For vSecond Year Readers, Insect Pests of House and Garden. 



" And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean 

 To he some happy creature's Mlace." 



1. Consider last half of questions on discussion paj^cr. 



2. Have given a synopsis of Farmers' Bulletin No. 1 55, 



Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 



