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at home. Butter-making, sweeping and 

 dusting, and even dish-washing has had a 

 share of our attention. The mothers have 

 helped us in many ways. One little girl said 

 to me at the last club meeting: "Isn't it 

 strange, there seems to be a right and a 

 wrong way to do everything?" 



I mentioned our using the "Farm Bul- 

 letins" wjth our work in the agriculture class. 

 The older pupils wrote to our State College 

 of Agriculture and to the National Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., 

 and secured a large assortment of them. 

 Then Edward, who has come to be our right- 

 hand man in school, made a rack for them 

 out of strips of wood and fastened it to the 

 wall. We sorted the bulletins according to 

 subjects and filed them in the rack where 

 they can easily be used for reference by the 

 class in agriculture, geography, reading and 

 physiology. In all the classes from fifth 

 grade up, we have been having these farm 

 problems once a week. They bring in many 

 of the problems from home. I enclose a 

 page of the problems we have had this week, 

 so you can see what they are like. 



One German father stopped me in the 

 road the other day to tell me how glad he 



