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schools and outstripping them if they can. This means a larger pride in 

 the rural school, greater care to secure practical teachers, more expendi- 

 ture of money for healthful conditions and better supervision to make the 

 rural school correlate its work with the high school and college. The boys 

 and girls are worth it and the stimulus for growth and advancement 

 must be placed in the rural school or else the country boys and girls 

 will have less chance in life than their city and village friends. 



The rural school may inspire in its girls a desire for success in home 

 life, for to make an ideal farm home is a worthy ambition. With its 

 varied demands for intelligent labor, as varied and as important as work 

 on the farm, there is need of education for girls which shall properly fit 

 them for their field usefulness. Women are realizing their need of 

 special training and are taking advantage of the Winter-Course in Home 

 Economics. Among them will be some who will wish to take the longer 

 four-year course. Young women from the farms have good material for 

 preparation in Home Economics not only for practical application to 

 home life but as teachers. The State now offers instruction to its women 

 in Home Economics. It is hoped that the rural schools may foster in 

 its girls a desire for this training, and start them in their preparation. 

 Announcements for these courses may be had by writing to the College 

 of Agriculture. 



Subjects for Clubs to Discuss. 



The suggestions regarding the rural school are sent to our readers 

 because there is more enthusiasm than formerly on the question of secur- 

 ing better supervision in these schools, better sanitary and aesthetic 

 surroundings, both in the school house and out, and more practical teach- 

 ing of subjects that boys and girls will use in after life. This bulletin is 

 issued at this time with the hope that those receiving it will give special 

 attention to the conditions existing in their rural school districts. A 

 more comprehensive bulletin was issued in November 1903, a copy of 

 which will be sent you if you do not already possess it. 



ADVANCED READING FOR FARMERS' WIVES. 



It is impossible to continue publishing bulletins indefinitely for the 

 Farmers' Wives' Reading-Course. It is believed that after the four 

 years' course has been taken, more extensive reading and study are 

 needed, h^or this purpose we suggest the reading of books, on which 

 our members may report to us their progress and opinions. In connec- 

 tion with these books there will arise, as in connection with the bulletins, 

 questions of interest in home life which we shall be glad to answer or we 

 will refer the reader to sources of information. If readers are not in 



