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Study Leaflets," of 600 pages, is sent to teachers in the State who remit 

 30 cents to cover cost of postage and handHng. 



Textbooks. 



No textbooks are necessary. If the teacher desires to procure some 

 book, one or two of the following will be of value. Reference books may 

 be selected from the high school list : 



Agriculture for Beginners, Burkett, Stephens and Hill ; Ginn & Co. 



New Elementary Agriculture, Bessey and others ; University Pub- 

 lishing Co., Lincoln, Nebraska. 



First Principles of Agriculture, Gofif & Mayne ; American Book Co. 



Principles of Agriculture, Bailey; Macmillan Co. 



Soils and How to Treat Them, tJrooks ; 



Manures, Fertilizers, and Farm Crops, Brooks ; 



Animal Husbandry, Brooks ; King Richardson Co., Springfield, Mass. 



Agriculture Through the Laboratory and School Garden, Jackson 

 & Dougherty; Orange Judd Co. 



2. Materials and equipment for teaching agriculture in high schools. 



If it is desired to teach agriculture before botany and chemistry 

 are taught, the suggestions given for grades below the high school apply, 

 particularly such exercises as those outlined in Office of Experiment 

 Stations Bulletin 186, 



It is usually desirable that botany and chemistry precede agriculture 

 in the high school, provided the school can teach both of these subjects. 

 One cannot go very deeply into agricultural study without the aid of 

 these subjects. If botany can be taught in the ninth year and chemistry 

 in the tenth or eleventh, students will be ready for good solid agricultural 

 study in the eleventh or twelfth year. It would be possible to give such 

 an agricultural course in the same year with chemistry, if it seems best. 



Equipment. 



The microscopes, balances, thermometers, test tubes, crucibles, etc., 

 that are used in teaching botany and chemistry will nearly equip the 

 agricultural laboratory. There should also be a supply of flower-pots, 

 Mason fruit-jars, and other materials that can be procured as the class 

 progresses. 



Every school that is situated in a dairy region should have also a 

 Babcock milk-testing outfit. D. H. Burrell & Co., Little Falls, N. Y., 



