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Rural School Leaflet 



knowledge of men: the first, in order that he may produce goods of high 

 quality at low cost; and the second, in order that he may dispose of 

 them to advantage and be a good citizen in his community. To truly 



succeed in any work is no 

 easy task; if it were easy 

 there would be nothing to 

 strive for. 



I hope you will read this 

 leaflet carefully. In it 

 there are a number of 

 lessons, each of which 

 deals with out-of-door life 

 that is related directly 

 or indirectly to good farm 

 practice. None of the 

 lessons are useless; they 

 have some value or we 

 should not send them to 

 you. I know you will 

 get all that you can out of 

 the lessons and the letters. 

 One piece of work that I 

 should like to suggest for 

 these fall days is that we 

 all get ready for winter. 

 Harvest time is over now and the days of Thanksgiving are here. Let 

 us pick up, clean up, and put in order the school and the home, the 

 school yard and the home grounds. Perhaps there is some old lumber 

 that we can pile up neatly or a piece of machinery that we can place 

 under cover out of sight or some leaves that we can rake up or weeds that 

 we can cut. Perhaps inside the house the girls can help mother in 

 making things more homelike and attractive: clean curtains at the 

 windows, a new cover for the couch, a picture neatly framed and hung, a 

 red geranium on the window sill to brighten the room. Then when winter 

 comes everything will be snug and trim, and springtime will find us 

 with orderly surroundings at the start. 



Do not forget Corn Day, which comes this year on Friday, December 6. 

 You will find something about it on page 946 



The letter from Edward Haag published in this leaflet is one that I re- 

 ceived List spring. You will be interested in it. 



Often letters come to me containing descriptions of birds or plants or 

 some other object which I am asked to have identified. Sometimes the 



In the woods 



