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Rural School Leaflet. 



TO THE TEACHER 

 Milton Pratt Jones 



NOW is the time to get ready for Corn Day 1910. It 

 will be well in some sections to have in connection 

 with the school Corn Show on Corn Day a school 

 Potato Show. We prefer, however, to do special 

 work with corn for another year and celebrate another 

 Corn Day. After Corn Day and Potato Day are 

 over we hope you will send your best corn and 

 potatoes to the Cornell Corn and Potato Show to be 

 held during Farmers' Week, 1910, at the College of 

 Agriculture. Twenty-eight Farm Boys and Girls' 

 Clubs had exhibits this year. In 19 10 let us have 

 280 club exhibits. 



All vigorous boys and girls enjoy athletics. Prob- 

 ably your school has a picnic on the " Last Day." 

 What would you think of having a Field Day with 

 races and games in connection with your picnic? 

 On a certain day in May the boys and girls from the schools in two 

 commissioners' districts meet here at the College of Agriculture. 

 The young folks bring their parents. There were 1,500 present 

 last year. After eating their lunches in the grove, everybody goes 

 to the big Campus playground where boys and girls compete in the fol- 

 lowing events: 50-yard dash for boys under 15; 100-yard dash for 

 boys over 15; 50-yard dash for girls under 15; 50-yard dash for girls over 

 15; broad jump; high jump; bag race; potato race; obstacle race; shot 

 put; throwing base ball in a barrel and at a mark; ^-mile relay race 

 between school teams. Ribbons are given for prizes. 



Perhaps some of the schools nearby would combine with your school 

 for a Field Day and Picnic. 



If you have not yet organized a Farm Boys and Girls' Club in your 

 school it would be well to do it before school closes. There are reasons 

 why there should be a club in your district all the year round. In sum- 

 mer time especially the club should be alive. There should be meet- 

 ings. These need not be often — perhaps not oftener than once a month. 

 The meetings should be for business and fun. At such meetings each 

 member could make a report on things he is growing and on outdoor 

 observations. With your help the boys and girls might learn new facts 

 about the birds and flowers they have seen. 



