CORNELL 



Rural School Leaflet 



[FOR BOYS AND GIRLS] 



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 Post Office 

 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. 2 ITHACA, N. Y., MAY, 1909 No. 9 



TALKS TO BOYS AND GIRLS 

 My Dear Farmers: 



AM going to call all of you farmers because we 

 are expecting every one of you to grow 

 something this year — to grow it yourselves 

 outdoors where you can dig deep into the 

 soil and draw deep, long breaths of fresh 

 air. I hope you will because something like 

 this may happen. On a summer's day you 

 may see somebody a little over six feet tall 

 come walking along the dusty road by your place. Then this somebody 

 will see you over in the hayfield, under a broad-brimmed hat, jouncing 

 along on a hayrake back of Old Billy, perhaps. He will jump over the fence 

 and come over to where you are and he will say "Hello, Scout, how about 

 the garden? " If anybody like that does come along and asks such a 

 question, you may know it is I. So after you have finished your raking 

 and taken me to the house and given me one of your mother's doughnuts 

 with powdered sugar on it, you may know that the first thing to do 

 is to show me your corn or potatoes or vegetables. 



Last month we announced prizes amounting to $175 to be awarded 

 ill the Cornell Corn, Potato, Garden, and Bread-Making Contests. We 

 want everyone of you to enter one or more of these Contests. Do not 

 hesitate because somebody older has entered. At the Cornell Corn 

 Show the younger boys and girls won theii* share of premiums. After 

 all, the essential thing is not winning the prize but it is growing some- 

 thing and growing it well or making something and making it well. 

 All the rules for the Contests can be found in the April Rural School 

 Leaflet or on request we will send full information. Some of the boys 

 and girls in your district who have stopped going to school may be 



