THE CORN LADY 57 



Wheaton, Iowa, February 5, 1911 



DEAR DADDY: Well, we organized our 

 regular class in agriculture as soon as school 

 started after the holiday vacation. The big 

 boys were all present and I thought they 

 surely should have some definite work. We 

 are taking up a text-book on agriculture and 

 this, together with experiments and observa- 

 tions in the neighborhood, talks by promi- 

 nent farmers, and use of the farm bulletins, 

 makes our work very interesting. The boys 

 are keeping regular note-books for their work 

 in agriculture. 



The girls have organized a Girls' Home 

 Club and we meet each Friday afternoon 

 for a half -hour after school. Some of the 

 girls in the district who cannot attend school, 

 corne in for this, too. We are not trying to 

 do any very complex work; but the simple, 

 homely things that we are learning, we are 

 learning to do well. We have taken up 

 patching and darning; hemming and mak- 

 ing buttonholes. We have thoroughly studied 

 bread-making and the girls have all tried it 



