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Rural School Leaflet. 



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

 teachers, helpful in this work: 



Farmers' Reading-Course, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y, 



Elementary Exercises in Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, 

 Washington, D. C. 



A Secondary Course in Agronomy, Office of Experiment Stations, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Applications of Chemistry to Agriculture, Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions, Washington, D. C. 



Forestry in the Public Schools, Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 



Syllabus of Agriculture for Secondary Schools, State Department of 

 Education, Albany, N. Y. 



QUOTATIONS 



To one person this desire for the out-of-doors is an expression of the 

 art-sense. To another, it is respite and release. To another, it is the 

 joy of seeing and touching real things. To another, it is health and 

 physical exercise. To others, it is natural history. To others, it is 

 gardening or farming. To some, it is communion of the soul with the 

 great mysteries of nature. — L. H. Bailey. 



" You fancy the tulips a trifle prim, 

 Gayly arrayed, yet stiff and trim — 

 Not to be tempted to whim or freak. 

 Though flecked so richly in tint and 



streak. 

 Better, you think, is the errant vine, 

 Ready to clamber and twist and twine. 



" Let me whisper a secret in your ear 

 Before the tulips have time to hear. 

 Once, I am told, they were seen at court, 

 Were the fashion, too, though their reign 



was short. 

 Perhaps they copied the high-bred air 

 Of the dainty ladies who queened it there 

 In the height of the stately minuet. 

 When the powderea wig and tne patch 



were met. 

 When the squire bent low in a bow pro-' 



found, 

 And the courtesying maiden swept the 



ground." — Margaret E. Songster 



