vi SUG.GESTIONS TO TEACHERS 



No expensive equipment is required, but every effort 

 should be made to induce the pupils to make use of mate- 

 rials on the home farm or in the school gardens. Each pupil 

 should have at home or in the school garden a small plot 

 of ground on which to grow some crops for which he shall 

 be entirely responsible. 



The book is expected to furnish material for two periods 

 per week for a half year or one period per week if the work is 

 extended over the entire school term. In order to give 

 the teacher some choice of subjects, fifty exercises have 

 been included. They are arranged in logical order, but it is 

 expected that this arrangement will need to be modified in 

 order to adapt the studies to the season. 



In addition to the standard books on elementary agricul- 

 ture, the school library should have the publications of the 

 State Experiment Station, the Agricultural College, and 

 the United States Department of Agriculture. The former 

 can usually be obtained by direct application to the Station 

 and College, while the latter can be secured by writing to 

 your Senator or Representative in Congress. The Year- 

 book and the Farmers' Bulletins are the most useful publica- 

 tions put out by the federal government. 



At the conclusion of each exercise the pupils should be 

 assigned reference readings bearing upon the work of the 

 period and be required to make a written report. As far 

 as possible, the class-room recitations and discussions should 

 center about the field and laboratory exercises. 



Department of Agronomy, 



Ohio State University, 



August, 1915. 



