158 FARM AND SCHOOL PROBLEMS. 



General Treatment for All Kinds of Plants. 



Leaf eating insects such as slugs, 

 caterpillars, beetles, etc. 



Paris Green or other arsenical 

 when insects first appear. 



Sucking insects such as plant lice, 

 true bugs, etc. 



Tobacco dust, nicotine, sulfate, 

 soap or kerosene emulsion. 



Scale insects such as scurfy, bark 

 louse and San Jose scale. 



Spray with lime sulphur solution 

 in spring before the buds are 

 open. 



School Demonstration Work. 



Have a number of boys who are in the class in Agriculture 

 select two or more trees in the home orchard if it has been 

 neglected and make an experiment. 



1 . Begin with mulching soil this year. 



2. Apply fertilizers to soil next Spring. 



3. Trim the trees. 



4. Spray for fungi and insects. 



5. Thin the fruit. 



6. Pick and pack scientifically. 



7 . Marketing. 



10. (This may be conducted as a contest on basis of quantity and 

 profit.) 



This will be an important demonstration of what your teach- 

 ing can do. 



Make the work practical. 

 Get results. 



Have pupils write composition on their work in Agriculture. 

 Topics may be treated in the following order: 



11. Object of club work. 



12. Life history of apple. 



13. Soil study, fertilizing, mulching. 



14. Management of diseases and insects. 



15. Management of the crop-picking, crating and marketing. 



16. Exhibits, their relation to school work. 



17. Use of products their food value; recipes for dishes. 



18. Report of yield pounds amount used for home consumption 

 amount sold profit on investment amount received for labor, 

 etc. 





