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Rural School Leaflet. 



Shadow pictures. A turkey gobbler 



and little white, green, and red candles burning among the branches. 

 I think it would be mighty fine for some of the members of the Boys' 

 Club to trim their houses up this year and get the Christmas tree. If 

 you do, bring along with the green boughs, a branch or two from a beech 



tree with the brown 

 leaves still clinging. The 

 brown looks good with 

 the green and makes the 

 room seem even more 

 like the woods. 



What do you think of 

 the idea of the Farm 

 Boys' Club giving a pres- 

 ent to the school? This 

 may be a window box 

 or a table or a bookcase 

 that you make your- 

 selves. Perhaps when 

 some of the people in 

 the district see a book- 

 case built by the boys 

 themselves, waiting to be filled, they may donate some books. Another 

 good present would be a collection of all the different kinds' of garden, 

 field, and flower seeds found at home in the granary and in the seed 

 pail. To this might well be added a collection of all the different 

 kinds of feed fed to the animals by farmers in your neighborhood. You 

 will probably find bran, middlings, corn meal, cotton seed meal, gluten 

 feed and others. These seeds and feeds may be kept in bottles or little 

 boxes or in a big box which you can partition off into many compart- 

 ments with strips of stiff cardboard. All seeds and feeds should be 

 labeled properly so that everybody in school will know what they are 

 looking at. 



Now for something else we hope to have our boys and girls do. Through- 

 out New York State we want you to celebrate the great American Crop, 

 Corn, on the afternoon of Friday, January 29th. Let January 29th 

 be known as Corn Day to the members of the club. We want these 

 clubs to make a Corn Show, the main event of the day. At this show 

 each of the members of the club should make an exhibit of the best five 

 or ten ears of corn he can find at home. Next month we will tell you 

 how to judge corn. Why not ask some of the farmers of the neighborhood 

 to judge this corn and tell you why some ears are good and some poor? 



