762 Rural School Leaflet. 



The rural school-garden will have a character all its own. It will 

 be, in a way, a small experiment station; a place in which investigation 

 of problems interesting to the farm community in which it stands can 

 be conducted by the pupils. These problems will vary in different 

 localities. The rural school teacher should find out what is being grown 

 on the farm lands, and with the aid of her pupils, endeavor to add to 

 the knowledge concerning these crops. She should keep in touch with 

 departments of agriculture, and current literature along these lines. 

 She should encourage pupils to conduct experiments that they mav find 

 out for themselves some things that will improve the farm conditions. 



Teachers who are ready to give s(5me time every day to gardening in 

 a rural school should prepare a connected series of lessons in soils, and 

 plants. She will find the following bulletins on agriculture, free to 

 teachers, helpful to her in this work: 



Reading Course for Farmers, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y, 



Elementary Exercises in Agriculture, Office of Experiment Station, 

 Washington, D. C. 



A Secondary Course in Agronomy, Office of Experiment Station, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Applications of Chemistry to Agriculture, Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Washington, D. C. 



Forestry in the Public Schools, Bureau of Forestry, Washington, D. C. 



Syllabus of Agrictilture for Secondary Schools, State Department of 

 Education, Albany, X. Y. 



For those teachers who would like to do some work in rural school 

 gardening and do not know how to begin, the following lessons will be 

 found helpful. They are simple and involve fundamental principles of 

 agriculture. If but one of these lessons is given during this springtime, 

 it will be wortn the while. Do not try to cover too much ground, but 

 if possible, have some one principle of agriculture demonstrated by 

 actual experiment in the vicinity of the schoolhouse. 



