66 THE CORN LADY 



might be one of our boys and his mother! 

 The boys have been reading the accounts of 

 what the boys of the South have done in 

 raising corn. There was one boj^ in South 

 Carolina who raised two hundred and twen- 

 ty-eight and three-fourths bushels of corn 

 on one acre. How is that for a record? 



We have been doing some special lan- 

 guage work that I am proud of. Each pupil 

 selected some farm or home subject that in- 

 terested him, and wrote an illustrated com- 

 position on it. Those who could, drew their 

 illustrations; others cut them from farm 

 journals and bulletins. Some clinched their 

 points with clippings from magazines and 

 papers. We expect to send these booklets 

 to the county fair. 



We have cleaned and raked our yard and 

 are getting the ground back from the road 

 and the playground, ready for our school 

 garden. We are putting out a number of 

 vines and some seed that our Congressman 

 was kind enough to send us. We think our 

 radishes and lettuce will be ready to eat with 

 our lunches before school is out. We are 

 going to start a little experimental plot for 

 alfalfa, too. 



The girls in the Home Clui) served lunch 



