CORNELL 



R^ural ScKool 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 PostOtfice 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. CHARLES H. TUCK, and MILTON PRATT JONES, Advisers 



Vol. 



ITHACA, N. Y., JANUARY, 1909 



No. 5 



A lover of the moorland bare 



And honest country winds, you were; 



The silver-skimming rain you took; 



And loved the floodings of the brook, 

 Dew, frost, and mountains, fire and seas, 

 Tumultuary silences, 



Winds that m darkness fifed a tune, 



And the high-riding, virgin moon. — Robert Louis Stevenson 



NOTES 



HE twenty-ninth of January has been 

 named as a good time for the children to 

 celebrate Corn Day in their school districts. 

 A definite date helps to give importance 

 to the subject. Many children are now 

 corresponding with Mr. Jones regarding 

 this day and I believe from the Friday- 

 afternoon exercises suggested by him 

 will come a more definite interest in the 

 growing of good corn on our farm lands. 

 The co-operation of all teachers in a cele- 

 bration of Corn Day is requested. Have 

 the children make selections of good ears 

 of corn for scoring and have judges tell 

 them which ears are best. Compositions 

 and poems on corn will give a literary 

 touch to the afternoon. If the girls will 

 try some of the recipes given by Miss 

 Rose of the Home Economics Department and have some of the 

 results for the Friday afternoon entertainment, both boys and visitors 

 will appreciate it. We shall be very' glad to report in a subsequent 

 Leaflet some of the results of Corn Day in your school. 



Let the children get a new spirit from the study -of Indian corn by 

 reading or learning some of the lines from Hiawatha. Explain to them 



that Mondamin means Indian corn. They will see the association 



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