CORNELL 



Rural School 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 Post Office 

 at Ithaca, New York, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. L. H. Bailey Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



Professors C. F. WARREN, CHARLES H. TUCK, and MILTON PRATT JONES, Advisors 



Vol. 3 



ITHACA, N. Y., SEPTEMBER, 1909 



No. 



NATURE-STUDY AGRICULTURE. 



HE New York State College of Agriculture at Cor- 

 nell University is sending out suggestive les- 

 sons in Nature-Study Agriculture for use in 

 the public schools. It is hoped that these les- 

 sons will help the children of New York State 

 " to love the country better and be content to 

 dwell therein." Each teacher in New York is 

 entitled to these lessons free of charge. Eachi 

 pupil should know of the information that 

 the College is sending out for his beneiit, even if regular lessons are 

 not conducted along these lines in the schoolroom. 



During the coming year the Cornell Rural School Leaflet will give 

 subject matter for the benefit of teachers who are basing their Nature- 

 Study work on the new syllabus for Nature-Study. Certain subjects 

 are given in the new syllabus for each year so that the work will not be 

 repeated in the dififerent grades. The Rural School Leaflet will take 

 the subjects suggested for the current year, and give sufficient subject 

 matter to enable the teacher to conduct the work. In addition to the 

 lessons necessary to meet the requirements of the syHabus, special lessons 

 in elementary agriculture will be given for the benefit of teachers in 

 rural schools who wish to give the pupils some practical work in agri- 

 culture. There will be suggestions along the lines of domestic science 

 and manual training. Special lessons on gardens for school and home 

 will be outlined. 



We want to know what the pupils are doing in Nature-Study Agri- 

 culture and shall ask, therefore, that the teacher encourage them to 

 write to us once a month, as formerly. We shall give a picture to every 

 child that writes three letters during the year to the College, the letter 



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