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Rural School Leaflet. 



TO THE TEACHERS OF THE RURAL SCHOOLS 



Milton Pratt Jones 



you realize that the success of the Cornell Con- 

 tests, announced in this issue of the Boys and 

 Girls Leaflet, depends mostly on the teacher? We 

 ask for your co-operation. The boys and girls will 

 need your encouragement if they are to enter any 

 of these contests and we want every able-bodied boy 

 or girl in your school over ten years of age or even 

 younger to enter some of them. The object of these 

 contests is not to get a few boys and girls to receive 

 some prize but to get many boys and girls growing 

 things and doing things. 



Could you use some of your Nature-Study Agricul- 

 ture periods in talking with the boys and girls about 

 these contests; in discussing with them their plans for 

 their gardens or corn or potato fields, and in advising 

 them as to what to plant and how? 

 Then may we ask your further help in another way? These contests 

 will interest some of the older boys who are in high school or have left 

 school. We must reach these boys partly through the teachers. Will 

 you then bring this contest to the attention of such boys or send us their 

 names in order that we may do this? 



Finally, in the light of your experience, what do you think of these 

 contests? Are they practical? Are they going to really accomplish 

 results? We should like to have you write to us. 



