GEOGRAPHY 245 



Handling the butter working. 

 moulding. 

 packing for sale. 

 shipping. 



Centers for sale of butter. 

 Near home. 

 Shipping by rail or water. 



The children copied this outline and carried it with them 

 the next day. They were told to ask questions and to find 

 out all that they could about everything that they saw. After 

 careful inspection of the creamery, we returned to school 

 and talked over what we had seen and heard. Paper was 

 then passed to the pupils, and, from their outlines, they 

 wrote an account of the excursion. For drawing that day 

 an outline was made of Stockton, locating in reference to the 

 city the principal dairy farms of the county as we had 

 learned about them that morning at the creamery. 



The class took up the flour mills of Stockton in the same 

 way, but only two of the pupils visited them. These two re- 

 ported to the class the day after their trip, outlines were then 

 made, and the stories were written. Other local industries 

 are taken up in one or the other of these ways, but not all are 

 reproduced in writing. 



The study of the state follows that of the city and county. 

 In history California is studied with reference to the Indians, 

 the mission fathers, the discovery of gold, 



Home State an( ^ t ^ ie ^mission mto tne Union as a state. 

 In this work the children draw maps show- 

 ing California as it looked when the Indians were here; as 

 the mission fathers knew it, locating the twenty-one mis- 



