CORNELL 



R^ural School Leaflet 



[FOR THE TEACHER] 



Published monthly by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, from 

 September to May and entered as second-class matter September 30, 1907, at the Post Office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the act of Congress of July 16, 1894, L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 

 Professors G. F. WARREN and CHARLES H. TUCK, Advisers 



Vol. 



ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER, 1908 



No. 4 



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— Martha G. D. Bianchi 



NOTES 



|N our efforts to reach the school children this 

 year, the cooperation of school commissioners 

 and teachers throughout New York State has 

 been very gratifying. There has been a decided 

 increase in interest in agricultural education 

 during the past few months. We are receiving 

 hundreds of letters making inquiries concern- 

 ing our work with the public schools. We want 

 to make this work as helpful as possible. In 

 order to do this we hope everyone who is in- 

 terested in education for farm boys and girls 

 will make suggestions and give criticisms from 

 time to time, that our publications may be 

 more helpful. 

 Farm clubs for young folks. — Should this Leaflet come into the 

 hands of anyone interested in young persons, whether it be a super- 

 intendent of schools, a school commissioner, a teacher, a trustee or a 

 granger, we hope he will read the notes on page 94 by Mr. Milton Pratt 

 Jones, relating to clubs for farm boys and girls. We hope encourage- 

 ment will be given to all farm boys and girls to have an organization 

 that will enable the Extension Department at Cornell to work with 

 them. Plans are being made to have a line of serious and interesting 



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