THE CORN LADY 



for his school and, well, the teacher was 

 happy enough for her eyes to shine, too. 



The next day, for language, we wrote an 

 account of what we had learned about corn. 

 I never had secured before such clear ex- 

 pression; such good sentences, or correct 

 punctuation, writing and such neat and 

 thorough work. I had them take their work 

 home when it was completed, and I heard 

 many good words about it. Best of all, I 

 saw that most of the farmers had picked 

 their seed corn carefully from the strongest 

 stalks in the field and hung it up; not wait- 

 ing to throw out the best ears from the 

 wagons after the freezing weather had killed 

 much of it. 



In geography, we have drawn maps of 

 all the farms, showing the fields and what 

 had been planted in each for the past four 

 years. In connection with this> we had some 

 study of soils and considered the importance 

 of crop rotations in keeping the soil fertile. 

 One of the boys brought some alfalfa and we 

 examined the little tubercles that draw the 

 nitrogen into the soil from the air. Some 

 of the fields in this district have been planted 

 to corn for the last ten years, because corn 

 is the "money crop" as they call it; yet the 



